Zelcastalumni map

People who leave Netflix most often go to NVIDIA, OpenAI and Anthropic. 15% go small. Median stay 2y 7m

These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Netflix's headcount: 187 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 49 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.

People on the map
1870.7% of everyone on the map
There now
10757% of the people here
Moved on
8043% of the people here
Median tenure
2y 7mmiddle half 1y 7m to 3y 8m

Put Netflix 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 arrive from Google. Most leave for NVIDIA (6% of recorded departures).

Netflix186 in · 82 out
12Google11Amazon7Meta6Apple5LinkedIn4Microsoft4Stripe3Cruise3TwitterNVIDIA56%OpenAI56%Anthropic34%Google34%Stripe34%
55 of 186 recorded arrivals shown, 131 more from 117 other companies19 of 82 recorded departures shown, 63 more to 57 other companies

After Netflix

  • 15%Joined a startup12
  • 16%Joined a big company13
  • 69%Elsewhere

Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.

How long people stay

18%<1y
17%1-2y
44%2-4y
17%4-7y
5%7y+
2y 7m median tenuremiddle half 1y 7m to 3y 8m

186 stays with both a start and an end on the record.

Who comes and goes, by year

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joined left2026 is a partial year

2012 to 2026: 194 joined, 89 left.

Caliber

84mediantop 10%94
0Eng Scorer caliber, 187 scored99

there now 84 moved on 87. The people who left score higher than the people still there.

Titles held here

  1. Software Engineer62
  2. Senior Software Engineer51
  3. Engineering Manager15
  4. Software Engineer Intern7
  5. Staff Software Engineer6
  6. Senior Data Engineer3
  7. Senior Engineering Manager3

7 most common titles, by people who held them.

First job on the record for 2% of people here.

Behind the median

Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.

  • 6%Exceptional11 people
  • 28%Strong52 people
  • 55%Solid103 people
  • 8%Emerging15 people
  • 3%Unproven6 people

187 of the 187 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.

Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 63 of the 187 people here with a read sit in them, 34%. A tier is the band an Eng Scorer caliber score falls in, so this is the same measurement as the median on the caliber card, opened up.

Whether a title rose here

The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.

33%Titles that rose32 of 97 classified people

  • 33%Rose32 people
  • 62%Stayed level60 people
  • 5%Fell5 people

97 of the 187 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 97 of the 187 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

  1. UC Berkeley12.0%
  2. Stanford8.7%
  3. Carnegie Mellon5.4%
  4. Georgia Tech4.9%
  5. MIT4.9%
  6. Cornell3.3%
  7. Harvard3.3%
  8. Northeastern3.3%

The 8 most listed schools among the 184 people here with a school on file.

Of the 184 people here with a school on file, 22 list UC Berkeley, 16 list Stanford and 10 list Carnegie Mellon. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.

Public work

one square is one in a hundred
43%have a public GitHub account on their profile

81 of the 187 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts. An account the check did not find reads the same as no account, so this is a floor rather than a census.

Across the 325 companies on the map that can show this figure, the median is 38%.

Where they are now

66% of the people who have worked at Netflix and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.

Netflix
Everyone on the map
  • 66%SF Bay Area123 · map 47%
  • 21%New York40 · map 33%
  • 7%Los Angeles13 · map 6%
  • 2%Seattle3 · map 3%
  • 4%Somewhere else8

All 187 people who worked at Netflix 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 Netflix: 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.

Key facts

  • 187 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Netflix: 107 are there now and 80 have moved on.
  • The most common next employer after Netflix is NVIDIA (5 people, 6% of recorded departures), followed by OpenAI and Anthropic.
  • The most common previous employer before Netflix is Google (12 people), followed by Amazon and Meta.
  • The median tenure at Netflix is 2y 7m (middle half 1y 7m to 3y 8m).
  • Of those who moved on from Netflix, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 15% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 16% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
  • The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Netflix is 84 on the 0 to 99 scale (187 scored).
  • The most common title held at Netflix is Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer.
  • Of the 184 people here with a school on file, 22 list UC Berkeley (12.0%), then Stanford (16). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
  • 66% of the 187 people here who list a location live in SF Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map. That is where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
  • 43% of the 187 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
  • Of the 97 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 32 rose, 60 stayed level and 5 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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