Zelcastalumni map

People who leave NVIDIA most often go to Meta, Google and OpenAI. 3% found something next. 16% go small. Median stay 2y 2m

These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not NVIDIA's headcount: 344 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 23 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.

People on the map
3441.3% of everyone on the map
There now
14041% of the people here
Moved on
20459% of the people here
Median tenure
2y 2mmiddle half 11m to 3y 11m

Put NVIDIA side by side with another company, every number against every number.

Came from, went to

Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Google. Most leave for Meta (7% of recorded departures).

NVIDIA300 in · 215 out
13Google10Meta8DeepMap, Inc.7Apple6IBM5Microsoft5Netflix4Amazon4Capital OneMeta167%Google147%OpenAI136%Apple84%Anthropic52%LinkedIn52%Microsoft52%Tesla42%Uber42%
62 of 300 recorded arrivals shown, 238 more from 207 other companies74 of 215 recorded departures shown, 141 more to 122 other companies

After NVIDIA

  • 3%Founded something7
  • 16%Joined a startup32
  • 24%Joined a big company50
  • 57%Elsewhere

Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.

How long people stay

27%<1y
19%1-2y
29%2-4y
19%4-7y
6%7y+
2y 2m median tenuremiddle half 11m to 3y 11m

234 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: 371 joined, 239 left.

Caliber

84mediantop 10%95
0Eng Scorer caliber, 344 scored99

there now 84 moved on 86. The people who left score higher than the people still there.

Titles held here

  1. Software Engineer Intern58
  2. Software Engineer48
  3. Senior Software Engineer38
  4. System Software Engineer12
  5. Research Intern11
  6. Senior System Software Engineer7
  7. Software Intern7
  8. Machine Learning Engineer6

8 most common titles, by people who held them.

First job on the record for 13% of people here.

Behind the median

Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.

  • 7%Exceptional25 people
  • 33%Strong115 people
  • 40%Solid139 people
  • 17%Emerging60 people
  • 1%Unproven5 people

344 of the 344 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.

Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 140 of the 344 people here with a read sit in them, 41%. A tier is the band an Eng Scorer 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.

42%Titles that rose98 of 232 classified people

  • 42%Rose98 people
  • 54%Stayed level125 people
  • 4%Fell9 people

232 of the 344 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 who recorded one title here and then left, it is 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. A title that matches no rung is left out rather than guessed, and product, program and project managers are left out entirely, being a different ladder. That leaves 232 of the 344 people here classified, and it leans towards people who have left: someone still here on a single recorded title has nothing to be measured against.

Where they studied

  1. UC Berkeley16.3%
  2. Stanford13.1%
  3. UIUC7.6%
  4. Carnegie Mellon7.3%
  5. MIT7.3%
  6. University of Waterloo3.8%
  7. Cornell3.2%
  8. Georgia Tech3.2%

The 8 most listed schools among the 343 people here with a school on file.

Of the 343 people here with a school on file, 56 list UC Berkeley, 45 list Stanford and 26 list UIUC. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.

Public work

one square is one in a hundred
41%have a public GitHub account on their profile

140 of the 344 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts. An account the check did not find reads the same as no account, so this is a floor rather than a census.

Across the 325 companies on the map that can show this figure, the median is 38%.

Where they are now

75% of the people who have worked at NVIDIA and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.

NVIDIA
Everyone on the map
  • 75%SF Bay Area258 · map 47%
  • 17%New York58 · map 33%
  • 3%Los Angeles10 · map 6%
  • 1%Washington DC4 · map 7%
  • 0.9%Seattle3 · map 3%
  • 3%Somewhere else11

All 344 people who worked at NVIDIA 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 they worked at NVIDIA: a metro here does not mean the company has an office in it. The lower strip is the same metros across the whole map, for comparison.

Key facts

  • 344 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at NVIDIA: 140 are there now and 204 have moved on.
  • The most common next employer after NVIDIA is Meta (16 people, 7% of recorded departures), followed by Google and OpenAI.
  • The most common previous employer before NVIDIA is Google (13 people), followed by Meta and DeepMap, Inc..
  • The median tenure at NVIDIA is 2y 2m (middle half 11m to 3y 11m).
  • Of those who moved on from NVIDIA, 3% went on to a founder title, 16% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 24% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
  • The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at NVIDIA is 84 on the 0 to 99 scale (344 scored).
  • The most common title held at NVIDIA is Software Engineer Intern, then Software Engineer.
  • Of the 343 people here with a school on file, 56 list UC Berkeley (16.3%), then Stanford (45). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
  • 75% of the 344 people here who list a location live in SF Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map. That is where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
  • 41% of the 344 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
  • Of the 232 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 98 rose, 125 stayed level and 9 fell.

About this data: built from 144,786 jobs across 26,572 engineers in the Zelcast network and Eng Scorer reads, updated August 20, 2026. A move counts when the next role starts within 24 months of leaving; companies with fewer than 20 people on the map are not shown, and destinations with fewer than 3 people are folded into the totals. Caliber is the Eng Scorer score.

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