After Optum
- 16%Joined a startup7
- 33%Joined a big company14
- 51%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Optum most often go to Capital One. 16% go small. Median stay 1y 10m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Optum's headcount: 52 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 177 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 520.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 917% of the people here
- Moved on
- 4383% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 10mmiddle half 1y 2m to 3y
Put Optum 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 leave for Capital One (13% of recorded departures).
29 recorded arrivals from 28 companies, none more than 2 from any one of them
0 of 29 recorded arrivals shown, 29 more from 28 other companies6 of 45 recorded departures shown, 39 more to 35 other companies
How long people stay
23%<1y
29%1-2y
35%2-4y
13%4-7y
0%7y+
31 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
0012
1013
0014
0015
1116
6517
3318
9919
10620
7121
101322
5523
2024
0325
1026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 55 joined, 46 left.
Caliber
75mediantop 10%84
0Eng Scorer caliber, 52 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer12
- Software Engineer Intern11
- Senior Software Engineer3
- Software Development Intern3
- Technology Development Program Intern3
5 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 33% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 33%Strong or solid17 people
- 52%Emerging27 people
- 15%Unproven8 people
52 of the 52 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. Fewer than 3 of the 52 people here with a read sit in them, which is too few to print as a count. 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. A tier holding fewer than 3 people is printed together with the one next to it, because a bucket that small is a person rather than a pattern.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
30%Titles that rose13 of 43 classified people
- 30%Rose13 people
- 70%Stayed level30 people
43 of the 52 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 43 of the 52 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
- Duke9.8%
- NC State5.9%
- UC Berkeley5.9%
- USC5.9%
The 4 most listed schools among the 51 people here with a school on file.
Of the 51 people here with a school on file, 5 list Duke, 3 list NC State and 3 list UC Berkeley. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
15%have a public GitHub account on their profile
8 of the 52 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
58% of the people who have worked at Optum and list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map.
Optum
Everyone on the map
- 58%New York30 · map 33%
- 29%SF Bay Area15 · map 47%
- 6%Washington DC3 · map 7%
- 8%Somewhere else4
All 52 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 they worked at Optum: 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.
On the same resumes
Companies that show up most often alongside Optum, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 52 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Optum: 9 are there now and 43 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Optum is Capital One (6 people, 13% of recorded departures).
- The median tenure at Optum is 1y 10m (middle half 1y 2m to 3y).
- Of those who moved on from Optum, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 16% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 33% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Optum is 75 on the 0 to 99 scale (52 scored).
- The most common title held at Optum is Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Of the 51 people here with a school on file, 5 list Duke (9.8%), then NC State (3). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 58% of the 52 people here who list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map. That is where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 15% of the 52 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
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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