After Oculus VR
- 9%Founded something3
- 20%Joined a startup7
- 40%Joined a big company14
- 31%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Oculus VR most often go to Meta and Google. Of them, 9% found something next and 20% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 3y 1m
Not Oculus VR's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 43 people on a map of 67,181, No. 560 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 430.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 512% of the people here
- Moved on
- 3888% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 3y 1mmiddle half 1y 6m to 4y 11m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Meta. Most leave for Meta (20% of recorded departures).
15 of 39 recorded arrivals shown, 24 more from 23 other companies10 of 35 recorded departures shown, 25 more to 21 other companies
How long people stay
12%<1y
18%1-2y
32%2-4y
18%4-7y
21%7y+
34 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: 45 joined, 40 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (28).
Titles held here
- Software Engineer19
- Software Engineer Intern9
2 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 5% of people here.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
59%Titles that rose22 of 37 classified people
- 59%Rose22 people
- 41%Stayed level or fell15 people
37 of the 43 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. A direction holding fewer than 3 people is printed with the one next to it, because that few is a person rather than a pattern.
Where they studied
- Stanford11.9%
- Cornell9.5%
- Georgia Tech9.5%
- UC Berkeley9.5%
- Penn7.1%
- UC San Diego7.1%
The 6 most listed schools among the 42 people here with a school on file.
5 of the 42 people here with a school on file list Stanford, 4 list Cornell and 4 list Georgia Tech. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
53%have a public GitHub account on their profile
23 of the 43 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
63% of the people who have worked at Oculus VR and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Oculus VR
Everyone on the map
- 63%SF Bay Area27 · map 41%
- 12%New York5 · map 18%
- 7%Seattle3 · map 5%
- 19%Somewhere else8
All 43 people who worked at Oculus VR 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 Oculus VR: 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 Oculus VR, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 43 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Oculus VR: 5 are there now, 38 have moved on.
- Most leave for Meta: 7 people, 20% of recorded departures. Then Google.
- Most arrive from Meta: 9 people. Then Google.
- Median tenure at Oculus VR: 3y 1m, middle half 1y 6m to 4y 11m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Oculus VR, 9% went to a founder title next, 20% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 40% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: Stanford, listed by 5 of the 42 people here with one on file (11.9%). Then Cornell (4).
- 63% of the 43 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.
- 53% of the 43 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
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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