After National Security Agency
- 19%Joined a startup15
- 35%Joined a big company27
- 46%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave National Security Agency most often go to Microsoft, Northrop Grumman and Booz Allen. Of them, 19% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 6m
Not the National Security Agency's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 101 people on a map of 67,181, No. 234 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1010.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 1414% of the people here
- Moved on
- 8786% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 6mmiddle half 1y 3m to 3y 11m
Put National Security Agency side by side with another employer.
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most leave for Microsoft (10% of recorded departures).
55 recorded arrivals from 55 companies, none more than 2 from any one of them
0 of 55 recorded arrivals shown, 55 more from 55 other companies20 of 82 recorded departures shown, 62 more to 55 other companies
How long people stay
17%<1y
23%1-2y
37%2-4y
13%4-7y
10%7y+
83 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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7<316
6317
9418
6719
6520
101521
111422
6523
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 81 joined, 78 left.
Caliber
67mediantop 10%84
0Eng Scorer caliber, 45 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer26
- Applied Research Mathematician5
- Data Scientist5
- Intern5
- Software Developer3
5 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 36% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 20%Strong or solid9 people
- 53%Emerging24 people
- 27%Unproven12 people
45 of the 101 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Fewer than 3 of the 45 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, too few to print as a count. A tier is the band a caliber score falls in, so this is the same measurement as the median on the caliber card, opened up. A tier holding fewer than 3 people is printed with the one next to it, because that few is a person rather than a pattern.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
30%Titles that rose19 of 63 classified people
- 30%Rose19 people
- 62%Stayed level39 people
- 8%Fell5 people
63 of the 101 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 with one title here who then left, it's 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. Titles that match no rung are left out rather than guessed, and product, program and project managers are left out entirely as a different ladder. What's left leans towards people who have left: someone still here on one recorded title has nothing to measure against.
Where they studied
- University of Maryland12.1%
- Georgia Tech10.1%
- Johns Hopkins10.1%
- UMBC9.1%
- University of Maryland Global Campus6.1%
- Howard Community College4.0%
- Naval Postgraduate School4.0%
- Stanford4.0%
The 8 most listed schools among the 99 people here with a school on file.
12 of the 99 people here with a school on file list University of Maryland, 10 list Georgia Tech and 10 list Johns Hopkins. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
14%have a public GitHub account on their profile
14 of the 101 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts. An account the check missed reads the same as no account, so this is a floor.
31% is the median across the 857 companies that can show this figure.
Where they are now
48% of the people who have worked at National Security Agency and list a location live in Washington DC today, against 13% of everyone on the map.
National Security Agency
Everyone on the map
- 48%Washington DC48 · map 13%
- 13%Baltimore13 · map 0.7%
- 13%SF Bay Area13 · map 41%
- 27%Somewhere else27
All 101 people who worked at National Security Agency 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 working at National Security Agency: a metro here isn't an office there. The lower strip is the same metros across the whole map.
On the same resumes
Companies that show up most often alongside National Security Agency, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 101 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked for the National Security Agency: 14 are there now, 87 have moved on.
- Most leave for Microsoft: 8 people, 10% of recorded departures. Then Northrop Grumman and Booz Allen.
- Median tenure at the National Security Agency: 2y 6m, middle half 1y 3m to 3y 11m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after National Security Agency, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 19% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 35% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 67 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 45 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Applied Research Mathematician.
- Top school: University of Maryland, listed by 12 of the 99 people here with one on file (12.1%). Then Georgia Tech (10).
- 48% of the 101 people here who list a location live in Washington DC today, against 13% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 14% of the 101 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 19 rose, 39 stayed level, 5 fell, out of the 63 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder before and after.
About this data: built from 352,028 jobs across 67,181 engineers in the Zelcast network and Eng Scorer reads, updated September 30, 2026. A move counts when the next role starts within 24 months of leaving. Companies under 20 people on the map aren't shown, and destinations under 3 people fold into the totals. Caliber is the Eng Scorer score.
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