After NetApp
- 19%Joined a startup22
- 34%Joined a big company39
- 46%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave NetApp most often go to Google, Microsoft and Dell. Of them, 19% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 6m
Not NetApp's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 133 people on a map of 67,181, No. 177 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1330.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 1411% of the people here
- Moved on
- 11989% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 6mmiddle half 1y 6m to 4y 8m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Cisco. Most leave for Google (6% of recorded departures).
How long people stay
13%<1y
21%1-2y
34%2-4y
20%4-7y
12%7y+
109 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
181212
141513
101314
<3815
01116
6817
5818
8619
3320
7621
5322
<3323
6524
3425
<3026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 90 joined, 105 left.
Caliber
79mediantop 10%87
0Eng Scorer caliber, 47 scored99
Titles held here
- Member of Technical Staff27
- Software Engineer21
- Software Engineer Intern17
- Intern10
- Senior Software Engineer6
- Software Engineer II6
- Member Technical Staff5
- Member of Technical Staff II4
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 35% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 15%Exceptional or strong7 people
- 32%Solid15 people
- 53%Emerging or unproven25 people
47 of the 133 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
7 of the 47 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 15%. 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.
43%Titles that rose49 of 113 classified people
- 43%Rose49 people
- 35%Stayed level39 people
- 22%Fell25 people
113 of the 133 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
- UC Berkeley7.6%
- USC7.6%
- UIUC6.1%
- NC State5.3%
- Carnegie Mellon4.6%
- MIT4.6%
- Stanford4.6%
- BITS Pilani3.8%
The 8 most listed schools among the 132 people here with a school on file.
10 of the 132 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 10 list USC and 8 list UIUC. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
31%have a public GitHub account on their profile
41 of the 133 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
68% of the people who have worked at NetApp and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
NetApp
Everyone on the map
- 68%SF Bay Area91 · map 41%
- 7%New York9 · map 18%
- 6%Washington DC8 · map 13%
- 5%Seattle7 · map 5%
- 2%Los Angeles3 · map 5%
- 2%Pittsburgh3 · map 0.4%
- 2%Raleigh-Durham3 · map 0.3%
- 7%Somewhere else9
All 133 people who worked at NetApp 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 NetApp: 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 NetApp, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 133 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at NetApp: 14 are there now, 119 have moved on.
- Most leave for Google: 7 people, 6% of recorded departures. Then Microsoft and Dell.
- Most arrive from Cisco: 4 people. Then VMware.
- Median tenure at NetApp: 2y 6m, middle half 1y 6m to 4y 8m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after NetApp, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 19% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 34% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 79 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 47 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Member of Technical Staff, then Software Engineer.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 10 of the 132 people here with one on file (7.6%). Then USC (10).
- 68% of the 133 people here who list a location live in SF Bay Area today, against 41% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 31% of the 133 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 49 rose, 39 stayed level, 25 fell, out of the 113 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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