After Nokia Bell Labs
- 20%Joined a startup9
- 36%Joined a big company16
- 43%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Nokia Bell Labs most often go to Intel. Of them, 20% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 7m
Not Nokia Bell Labs's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 51 people on a map of 67,181, No. 465 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 510.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 36% of the people here
- Moved on
- 4894% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 7mmiddle half 4m to 5y 5m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most leave for Intel (7% of recorded departures).
26 recorded arrivals from 24 companies, none more than 2 from any one of them
0 of 26 recorded arrivals shown, 26 more from 24 other companies3 of 46 recorded departures shown, 43 more to 39 other companies
How long people stay
29%<1y
14%1-2y
24%2-4y
19%4-7y
14%7y+
21 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: 44 joined, 41 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (17).
Titles held here
- Research Intern9
- Member of Technical Staff6
- Software Engineer Intern3
3 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 29% of people here.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
30%Titles that rose12 of 40 classified people
- 30%Rose12 people
- 53%Stayed level21 people
- 18%Fell7 people
40 of the 51 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
- Georgia Tech15.7%
- UC Berkeley9.8%
- Bilkent University5.9%
- Purdue5.9%
- Stanford5.9%
- UCLA5.9%
The 6 most listed schools among the 51 people here with a school on file.
8 of the 51 people here with a school on file list Georgia Tech, 5 list UC Berkeley and 3 list Bilkent University. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
25%have a public GitHub account on their profile
13 of the 51 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
47% of the people who have worked at Nokia Bell Labs and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Nokia Bell Labs
Everyone on the map
- 47%SF Bay Area24 · map 41%
- 25%New York13 · map 18%
- 27%Somewhere else14
All 51 people who worked at Nokia Bell Labs 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 Bell Labs: 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 Bell Labs, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 51 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Nokia Bell Labs: 3 are there now, 48 have moved on.
- Most leave for Intel: 3 people, 7% of recorded departures.
- Median tenure at Nokia Bell Labs: 2y 7m, middle half 4m to 5y 5m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Nokia Bell Labs, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 20% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 36% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Most common title held here: Research Intern, then Member of Technical Staff.
- Top school: Georgia Tech, listed by 8 of the 51 people here with one on file (15.7%). Then UC Berkeley (5).
- 47% of the 51 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.
- 25% of the 51 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 12 rose, 21 stayed level, 7 fell, out of the 40 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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