After Northrop Grumman
- 1%Founded something9
- 19%Joined a startup189
- 29%Joined a big company285
- 51%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Northrop Grumman most often go to Peraton, Lockheed Martin and Microsoft. Of them, 19% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 3y 1m
Not Northrop Grumman's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 1,361 people on a map of 67,181, No. 13 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1,3612.0% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 34425% of the people here
- Moved on
- 1,01775% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 3y 1mmiddle half 1y 7m to 5y 2m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Lockheed Martin. Most leave for Peraton (6% of recorded departures).
146 of 1,015 recorded arrivals shown, 869 more from 715 other companies272 of 1,047 recorded departures shown, 775 more to 533 other companies
The Northrop Grumman mafia
9 of the people who left went straight to a founding role, 1% of those who moved on, half of them within 4 months of leaving. The bars cover the ’15 to ’26 classes; earlier founders still count in the total.
How long people stay
13%<1y
20%1-2y
33%2-4y
20%4-7y
15%7y+
1,099 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
393212
342613
443114
684915
1006416
1218617
1188418
1649919
1849920
6615321
1099022
1347523
686924
437225
192326
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 1,311 joined, 1,052 left.
Caliber
64mediantop 10%83
0Eng Scorer caliber, 554 scored99
there now 62 moved on 68. The people who left score higher than the people still there.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer366
- Software Engineer Intern167
- Principal Software Engineer85
- Associate Software Engineer71
- Embedded Software Engineer54
- Senior Software Engineer50
- Cyber Software Engineer40
- Senior Principal Software Engineer38
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 24% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 3%Exceptional or strong18 people
- 14%Solid76 people
- 49%Emerging274 people
- 34%Unproven186 people
554 of the 1,361 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
18 of the 554 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 3%. 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.
42%Titles that rose451 of 1,076 classified people
- 42%Rose451 people
- 50%Stayed level538 people
- 8%Fell87 people
1,076 of the 1,361 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 Tech11.1%
- University of Maryland9.0%
- UMBC5.9%
- Johns Hopkins5.9%
- George Mason5.3%
- Virginia Tech4.6%
- USC3.3%
- UCLA3.3%
The 8 most listed schools among the 1,349 people here with a school on file.
149 of the 1,349 people here with a school on file list Georgia Tech, 121 list University of Maryland and 80 list UMBC. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
17%have a public GitHub account on their profile
228 of the 1,361 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
37% of the people who have worked at Northrop Grumman and list a location live in Washington DC today, against 13% of everyone on the map.
Northrop Grumman
Everyone on the map
- 37%Washington DC498 · map 13%
- 15%SF Bay Area203 · map 41%
- 8%Baltimore112 · map 0.7%
- 6%Los Angeles78 · map 5%
- 5%New York66 · map 18%
- 3%San Diego36 · map 0.5%
- 2%Denver29 · map 0.8%
- 2%Huntsville27
- 23%Somewhere else312
All 1,361 people who worked at Northrop Grumman 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 Northrop Grumman: 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 Northrop Grumman, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 1,361 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Northrop Grumman: 344 are there now, 1,017 have moved on.
- Most leave for Peraton: 61 people, 6% of recorded departures. Then Lockheed Martin and Microsoft.
- Most arrive from Lockheed Martin: 32 people. Then Raytheon and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
- Median tenure at Northrop Grumman: 3y 1m, middle half 1y 7m to 5y 2m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Northrop Grumman, 1% went to a founder title next, 19% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 29% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 64 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 554 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: Georgia Tech, listed by 149 of the 1,349 people here with one on file (11.1%). Then University of Maryland (121).
- 37% of the 1,361 people here who list a location live in Washington DC today, against 13% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 17% of the 1,361 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 451 rose, 538 stayed level, 87 fell, out of the 1,076 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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