After NI (National Instruments)
- 15%Joined a startup9
- 44%Joined a big company27
- 41%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave NI (National Instruments) most often go to Microsoft and Amazon. Of them, 15% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y
Not NI (National Instruments)'s headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 68 people on a map of 67,181, No. 353 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 680.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 11% of the people here
- Moved on
- 6799% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2ymiddle half 1y 2m to 3y 2m
Put NI (National Instruments) 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).
0 of 26 recorded arrivals shown, 26 more from 26 other companies9 of 62 recorded departures shown, 53 more to 48 other companies
How long people stay
20%<1y
23%1-2y
40%2-4y
9%4-7y
9%7y+
35 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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9813
8514
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3<316
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 47 joined, 52 left.
Caliber
82mediantop 10%90
0Eng Scorer caliber, 34 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer Intern15
- Software Engineer14
- Applications Engineer6
- Intern3
- Senior Software Engineer3
- Staff Software Engineer3
6 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 62% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 21%Exceptional or strong7 people
- 35%Solid12 people
- 44%Emerging or unproven15 people
34 of the 68 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
7 of the 34 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 21%. 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.
34%Titles that rose20 of 59 classified people
- 34%Rose20 people
- 56%Stayed level33 people
- 10%Fell6 people
59 of the 68 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
- UT Austin16.2%
- Georgia Tech11.8%
- Carnegie Mellon10.3%
- Virginia Tech8.8%
- Lynn University5.9%
- University of Michigan5.9%
- Ohio State4.4%
- UIUC4.4%
The 8 most listed schools among the 68 people here with a school on file.
11 of the 68 people here with a school on file list UT Austin, 8 list Georgia Tech and 7 list Carnegie Mellon. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
40%have a public GitHub account on their profile
27 of the 68 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
49% of the people who have worked at NI (National Instruments) and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
NI (National Instruments)
Everyone on the map
- 49%SF Bay Area33 · map 41%
- 16%Seattle11 · map 5%
- 12%New York8 · map 18%
- 7%Austin5 · map 0.8%
- 6%Washington DC4 · map 13%
- 10%Somewhere else7
All 68 people who worked at NI (National Instruments) 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 NI (National Instruments): 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 NI (National Instruments), at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 68 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at NI (National Instruments): 1 are there now, 67 have moved on.
- Most leave for Microsoft: 6 people, 10% of recorded departures. Then Amazon.
- Median tenure at NI (National Instruments): 2y, middle half 1y 2m to 3y 2m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after NI (National Instruments), fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 15% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 44% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 82 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 34 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer Intern, then Software Engineer.
- Top school: UT Austin, listed by 11 of the 68 people here with one on file (16.2%). Then Georgia Tech (8).
- 49% of the 68 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.
- 40% of the 68 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 20 rose, 33 stayed level, 6 fell, out of the 59 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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