After Nasdaq
- 17%Joined a startup4
- 46%Joined a big company11
- 38%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Nasdaq most often go to Microsoft. 17% go small
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Nasdaq's headcount: 27 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 353 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 270.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 311% of the people here
- Moved on
- 2489% of the people here
- Median tenure
- –only 15 stays here have both a start and an end on the record, too few to take a median from
Put Nasdaq side by side with another company, every number against every number.
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most leave for Microsoft (12% of recorded departures).
16 recorded arrivals from 15 companies, none more than 2 from any one of them
0 of 16 recorded arrivals shown, 16 more from 15 other companies3 of 26 recorded departures shown, 23 more to 20 other companies
How long people stay
27%<1y
40%1-2y
27%2-4y
0%4-7y
7%7y+
15 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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0013
1114
3215
1116
2317
3318
3219
0020
4321
3322
3123
1124
2325
0026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 26 joined, 23 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (27).
Titles held here
- Software Engineer Intern4
1 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 37% of people here.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
33%Titles that rose7 of 21 classified people
- 33%Rose7 people
- 52%Stayed level11 people
- 14%Fell3 people
21 of the 27 people here had a title that could be placed on the ladder before and after.
A title rose when the last title recorded here sits higher on the ladder than the first; for someone who recorded one title here and then left, it is measured against the first title of their next role. The ladder runs intern, junior, mid, senior, staff or manager, principal, director, VP, then founder or C-level. A title that matches no rung is left out rather than guessed, and product, program and project managers are left out entirely, being a different ladder. That leaves 21 of the 27 people here classified, and it leans towards people who have left: someone still here on a single recorded title has nothing to be measured against.
Where they studied
- MIT44.4%
The one school among the 27 people here with a school on file.
Of the 27 people here with a school on file, 12 list MIT.
Public work
Not enough of the record here has been checked.This share needs 30 people whose profile was checked for public accounts, and there are fewer than that here.
Where they are now
44% of the people who have worked at Nasdaq and list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map.
Nasdaq
Everyone on the map
- 44%New York12 · map 33%
- 30%SF Bay Area8 · map 47%
- 26%Somewhere else7
All 27 people who worked at Nasdaq list a location, and every share here is over them.
Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while they worked at Nasdaq: a metro here does not mean the company has an office in it. The lower strip is the same metros across the whole map, for comparison.
On the same resumes
Companies that show up most often alongside Nasdaq, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 27 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Nasdaq: 3 are there now and 24 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Nasdaq is Microsoft (3 people, 12% of recorded departures).
- Of those who moved on from Nasdaq, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 17% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 46% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The most common title held at Nasdaq is Software Engineer Intern.
- Of the 27 people here with a school on file, 12 list MIT (44.4%). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 44% of the 27 people here who list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map. That is where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- Of the 21 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 7 rose, 11 stayed level and 3 fell.
About this data: built from 144,786 jobs across 26,572 engineers in the Zelcast network and Eng Scorer reads, updated August 20, 2026. A move counts when the next role starts within 24 months of leaving; companies with fewer than 20 people on the map are not shown, and destinations with fewer than 3 people are folded into the totals. Caliber is the Eng Scorer score.
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