After Nielsen
- 19%Joined a startup8
- 29%Joined a big company12
- 52%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Nielsen most often go to a long tail of companies. Of them, 19% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y
Not Nielsen's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 50 people on a map of 67,181, No. 476 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 500.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 24% of the people here
- Moved on
- 4896% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2ymiddle half 8m to 3y 1m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Lockheed Martin.
42 recorded departures to 38 companies, none more than 2 to any one of them
7%3Lockheed Martin3 of 42 recorded arrivals shown, 39 more from 38 other companies0 of 42 recorded departures shown, 42 more to 38 other companies
How long people stay
34%<1y
15%1-2y
29%2-4y
22%4-7y
0%7y+
41 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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3<313
5<314
3615
5<316
5<317
7818
7619
<3<320
5521
3422
0023
0324
0325
0026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 47 joined, 47 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (24).
Titles held here
- Software Engineer9
- Data Scientist6
- Senior Data Scientist3
3 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 26% of people here.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
32%Titles that rose13 of 41 classified people
- 32%Rose13 people
- 56%Stayed level23 people
- 12%Fell5 people
41 of the 50 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 Florida8.2%
- Carnegie Mellon6.1%
- NYU6.1%
- Rutgers6.1%
- University of Michigan6.1%
The 5 most listed schools among the 49 people here with a school on file.
4 of the 49 people here with a school on file list University of Florida, 3 list Carnegie Mellon and 3 list NYU. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
34%have a public GitHub account on their profile
17 of the 50 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
34% of the people who have worked at Nielsen and list a location live in New York today, against 18% of everyone on the map.
Nielsen
Everyone on the map
- 34%New York17 · map 18%
- 24%SF Bay Area12 · map 41%
- 8%Los Angeles4 · map 5%
- 8%Washington DC4 · map 13%
- 26%Somewhere else13
All 50 people who worked at Nielsen 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 Nielsen: 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 Nielsen, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 50 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Nielsen: 2 are there now, 48 have moved on.
- Most arrive from Lockheed Martin: 3 people.
- Median tenure at Nielsen: 2y, middle half 8m to 3y 1m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Nielsen, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 19% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 29% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Data Scientist.
- Top school: University of Florida, listed by 4 of the 49 people here with one on file (8.2%). Then Carnegie Mellon (3).
- 34% of the 50 people here who list a location live in New York today, against 18% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 34% of the 50 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 13 rose, 23 stayed level, 5 fell, out of the 41 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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