After Nike
- 25%Joined a startup8
- 25%Joined a big company8
- 50%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Nike most often go to a long tail of companies. 25% go small. Median stay 2y 2m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Nike's headcount: 37 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 269 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 370.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 411% of the people here
- Moved on
- 3389% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 2mmiddle half 8m to 3y 3m
Put Nike 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.
Not enough recorded moves to draw a river for Nike yet.
How long people stay
35%<1y
10%1-2y
39%2-4y
10%4-7y
6%7y+
31 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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1014
2215
5116
3217
9518
81019
2320
1521
5222
3423
0224
0025
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 40 joined, 36 left.
Caliber
73mediantop 10%85
0Eng Scorer caliber, 37 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer Intern6
- Software Engineer4
- Director of Engineering3
- Senior Application Engineer3
- Senior Software Engineer3
5 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 11% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 8%Strong3 people
- 27%Solid10 people
- 57%Emerging21 people
- 8%Unproven3 people
37 of the 37 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 3 of the 37 people here with a read sit in them, 8%. 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.
38%Titles that rose11 of 29 classified people
- 38%Rose11 people
- 62%Stayed level or fell18 people
29 of the 37 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 29 of the 37 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. A direction holding fewer than 3 people is printed together with the one next to it, because a bucket that small is a person rather than a pattern.
Where they studied
Not enough education on the record here.36 of the 37 people here have a school on file, but no single school is listed by as many as 3 of them, and 3 is the fewest this map will count.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
32%have a public GitHub account on their profile
12 of the 37 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
43% of the people who have worked at Nike and list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map.
Nike
Everyone on the map
- 43%New York16 · map 33%
- 27%SF Bay Area10 · map 47%
- 16%Los Angeles6 · map 6%
- 8%Washington DC3 · map 7%
All 37 people who worked at Nike 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 Nike: 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 Nike, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 37 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Nike: 4 are there now and 33 have moved on.
- The median tenure at Nike is 2y 2m (middle half 8m to 3y 3m).
- Of those who moved on from Nike, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 25% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 25% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Nike is 73 on the 0 to 99 scale (37 scored).
- The most common title held at Nike is Software Engineer Intern, then Software Engineer.
- 43% of the 37 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.
- 32% of the 37 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
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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