After Optum
- 4%Founded something7
- 19%Joined a startup32
- 44%Joined a big company73
- 33%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Optum most often go to Capital One, Amazon and Meta. Of them, 4% found something next and 19% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 1y 11m
Not Optum's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 206 people on a map of 67,181, No. 113 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 2060.3% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 3818% of the people here
- Moved on
- 16882% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 11mmiddle half 1y 1m to 3y 1m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Rally Health. Most leave for Capital One (5% of recorded departures).
8 of 143 recorded arrivals shown, 135 more from 126 other companies31 of 173 recorded departures shown, 142 more to 130 other companies
How long people stay
20%<1y
31%1-2y
37%2-4y
10%4-7y
2%7y+
157 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
0<312
<3013
<3014
<3015
5<316
181217
17918
202119
301720
311321
464422
272923
141224
62225
3<326
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 220 joined, 183 left.
Caliber
74mediantop 10%84
0Eng Scorer caliber, 66 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer41
- Software Engineer Intern30
- Senior Software Engineer14
- AI12
- Data Scientist12
- Machine Learning Engineer10
- Data Engineer8
- Associate Software Engineer7
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 23% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 30%Strong or solid20 people
- 53%Emerging35 people
- 17%Unproven11 people
66 of the 206 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Fewer than 3 of the 66 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, too few to print as a count. 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.
31%Titles that rose48 of 155 classified people
- 31%Rose48 people
- 61%Stayed level95 people
- 8%Fell12 people
155 of the 206 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 Tech8.4%
- Carnegie Mellon6.4%
- MIT4.0%
- Duke3.0%
- UIUC3.0%
- University of Central Missouri3.0%
- UT Dallas2.5%
- Virginia Tech2.5%
The 8 most listed schools among the 202 people here with a school on file.
17 of the 202 people here with a school on file list Georgia Tech, 13 list Carnegie Mellon and 8 list MIT. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
14%have a public GitHub account on their profile
28 of the 206 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
24% of the people who have worked at Optum and list a location live in New York today, against 18% of everyone on the map.
Optum
Everyone on the map
- 24%New York50 · map 18%
- 17%SF Bay Area36 · map 41%
- 14%Washington DC28 · map 13%
- 4%Los Angeles9 · map 5%
- 4%Minneapolis9
- 4%Seattle8 · map 5%
- 3%Dallas-Fort Worth7 · map 0.9%
- 2%Austin4 · map 0.8%
- 27%Somewhere else55
All 206 people who worked at Optum 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 Optum: 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 Optum, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 206 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Optum: 38 are there now, 168 have moved on.
- Most leave for Capital One: 9 people, 5% of recorded departures. Then Amazon and Meta.
- Most arrive from Rally Health: 5 people. Then Change Healthcare.
- Median tenure at Optum: 1y 11m, middle half 1y 1m to 3y 1m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Optum, 4% went to a founder title next, 19% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 44% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 74 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 66 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: Georgia Tech, listed by 17 of the 202 people here with one on file (8.4%). Then Carnegie Mellon (13).
- 24% of the 206 people here who list a location live in New York today, against 18% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 14% of the 206 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 48 rose, 95 stayed level, 12 fell, out of the 155 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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