After Nokia
- 13%Joined a startup19
- 35%Joined a big company51
- 52%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Nokia most often go to Cisco, Amazon and Google. Of them, 13% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 2m
Not Nokia's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 171 people on a map of 67,181, No. 143 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1710.3% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 64% of the people here
- Moved on
- 16596% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 2mmiddle half 1y 1m to 4y 2m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Microsoft. Most leave for Cisco (5% of recorded departures).
3 of 97 recorded arrivals shown, 94 more from 89 other companies37 of 149 recorded departures shown, 112 more to 103 other companies
How long people stay
16%<1y
28%1-2y
28%2-4y
21%4-7y
7%7y+
104 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
111912
4813
4614
5415
<3416
10917
81018
5319
111020
8821
7922
11923
3624
4<325
0<326
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 93 joined, 108 left.
Caliber
80mediantop 10%88
0Eng Scorer caliber, 66 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer26
- Software Engineer Intern17
- Research Intern9
- Senior Software Engineer9
- Intern7
- Member of Technical Staff4
- Senior Researcher3
- Software Architect3
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 36% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 15%Exceptional or strong10 people
- 35%Solid23 people
- 45%Emerging30 people
- 5%Unproven3 people
66 of the 171 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
10 of the 66 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.
45%Titles that rose61 of 136 classified people
- 45%Rose61 people
- 45%Stayed level61 people
- 10%Fell14 people
136 of the 171 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
- Carnegie Mellon9.4%
- USC4.7%
- Visvesvaraya Technological University4.1%
- UIUC3.5%
- UT Dallas3.5%
- Northeastern2.9%
- Northwestern2.9%
- Cornell2.4%
The 8 most listed schools among the 170 people here with a school on file.
16 of the 170 people here with a school on file list Carnegie Mellon, 8 list USC and 7 list Visvesvaraya Technological University. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
33%have a public GitHub account on their profile
57 of the 171 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
54% of the people who have worked at Nokia and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Nokia
Everyone on the map
- 54%SF Bay Area92 · map 41%
- 15%New York26 · map 18%
- 6%Washington DC11 · map 13%
- 5%Seattle9 · map 5%
- 2%Austin4 · map 0.8%
- 2%Los Angeles3 · map 5%
- 15%Somewhere else26
All 171 people who worked at Nokia 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 Nokia: 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 Nokia, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 171 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Nokia: 6 are there now, 165 have moved on.
- Most leave for Cisco: 7 people, 5% of recorded departures. Then Amazon and Google.
- Most arrive from Microsoft: 3 people.
- Median tenure at Nokia: 2y 2m, middle half 1y 1m to 4y 2m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Nokia, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 13% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 35% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 80 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 66 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: Carnegie Mellon, listed by 16 of the 170 people here with one on file (9.4%). Then USC (8).
- 54% of the 171 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.
- 33% of the 171 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 61 rose, 61 stayed level, 14 fell, out of the 136 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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