After Nordstrom
- 16%Joined a startup16
- 42%Joined a big company43
- 42%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Nordstrom most often go to Amazon, Microsoft and Google. Of them, 16% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 1y 6m
Not Nordstrom's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 111 people on a map of 67,181, No. 212 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1110.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 65% of the people here
- Moved on
- 10595% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 6mmiddle half 11m to 2y 10m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Google. Most leave for Amazon (11% of recorded departures).
16 of 89 recorded arrivals shown, 73 more from 72 other companies33 of 106 recorded departures shown, 73 more to 67 other companies
How long people stay
27%<1y
33%1-2y
26%2-4y
14%4-7y
0%7y+
95 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
4<312
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6<314
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11616
14817
121018
161419
6920
131321
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 110 joined, 108 left.
Caliber
77mediantop 10%84
0Eng Scorer caliber, 57 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer22
- Software Engineer Intern20
- Software Engineer II16
- Software Engineer I9
- Senior Software Engineer8
- Sales Associate4
6 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 19% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 5%Strong3 people
- 35%Solid20 people
- 40%Emerging23 people
- 19%Unproven11 people
57 of the 111 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
3 of the 57 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 5%. 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.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
34%Titles that rose28 of 83 classified people
- 34%Rose28 people
- 59%Stayed level49 people
- 7%Fell6 people
83 of the 111 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 Washington16.5%
- Georgia Tech7.3%
- MIT5.5%
- UCLA5.5%
- Northeastern4.6%
- UC Berkeley4.6%
- Columbia3.7%
- Harvey Mudd3.7%
The 8 most listed schools among the 109 people here with a school on file.
18 of the 109 people here with a school on file list University of Washington, 8 list Georgia Tech and 6 list MIT. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
27%have a public GitHub account on their profile
30 of the 111 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
28% of the people who have worked at Nordstrom and list a location live in Seattle today, against 5% of everyone on the map.
Nordstrom
Everyone on the map
- 28%Seattle31 · map 5%
- 22%SF Bay Area24 · map 41%
- 17%Los Angeles19 · map 5%
- 16%New York18 · map 18%
- 5%Washington DC5 · map 13%
- 3%Denver3 · map 0.8%
- 10%Somewhere else11
All 111 people who worked at Nordstrom 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 Nordstrom: 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 Nordstrom, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 111 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Nordstrom: 6 are there now, 105 have moved on.
- Most leave for Amazon: 12 people, 11% of recorded departures. Then Microsoft and Google.
- Most arrive from Google: 5 people. Then Amazon and Microsoft.
- Median tenure at Nordstrom: 1y 6m, middle half 11m to 2y 10m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Nordstrom, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 16% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 42% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 77 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 57 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: University of Washington, listed by 18 of the 109 people here with one on file (16.5%). Then Georgia Tech (8).
- 28% of the 111 people here who list a location live in Seattle today, against 5% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 27% of the 111 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 28 rose, 49 stayed level, 6 fell, out of the 83 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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