Zelcastalumni map

People who leave Palantir Technologies most often go to Google, Meta and Amazon. 11% found something next. 22% go small. Median stay 2y 4m

These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Palantir Technologies's headcount: 1,422 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 5 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.

People on the map
1,4225.4% of everyone on the map
There now
69849% of the people here
Moved on
72451% of the people here
Median tenure
2y 4mmiddle half 1y 2m to 4y

Put Palantir Technologies 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 Amazon. Most leave for Google (10% of recorded departures).

PalantirTechnologies1,411 in · 700 out
88Amazon82Google64Microsoft59Meta49Amazon Web Services23Capital One16Apple13Bloomberg12TeslaGoogle6910%Meta416%Amazon101%Microsoft101%Scale AI91%Anthropic81%Bloomberg71%Datadog71%Dropbox71%
406 of 1,411 recorded arrivals shown, 1,005 more from 757 other companies168 of 700 recorded departures shown, 532 more to 410 other companies

After Palantir Technologies

  • 11%Founded something74
  • 22%Joined a startup147
  • 17%Joined a big company118
  • 50%Elsewhere

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

The Palantir Technologies mafia

74 of the people who left went straight to a founding role, 11% of those who moved on, half of them within a month of leaving. The bars are the ’15 to ’26 classes; earlier founders count in the total.

How long people stay

16%<1y
25%1-2y
33%2-4y
19%4-7y
8%7y+
2y 4m median tenuremiddle half 1y 2m to 4y

1,293 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: 1,536 joined, 884 left.

Caliber

84mediantop 10%94
0Eng Scorer caliber, 1,422 scored99

there now 83 moved on 87. The people who left score higher than the people still there.

Titles held here

  1. Software Engineer466
  2. Forward Deployed Engineer285
  3. Forward Deployed Software Engineer206
  4. Software Engineer Intern149
  5. Deployment Strategist73
  6. Technical Lead59
  7. Forward Deployed Software Engineer Intern40
  8. Forward Deployed Engineer Intern30

8 most common titles, by people who held them.

First job on the record for 7% of people here.

Behind the median

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

  • 6%Exceptional91 people
  • 28%Strong392 people
  • 46%Solid647 people
  • 18%Emerging261 people
  • 2%Unproven30 people

1,421 of the 1,422 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.

Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 483 of the 1,421 people here with a read sit in them, 34%. 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.

39%Titles that rose332 of 844 classified people

  • 39%Rose332 people
  • 58%Stayed level492 people
  • 2%Fell20 people

844 of the 1,422 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 844 of the 1,422 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. Stanford10.2%
  2. MIT6.3%
  3. UC Berkeley6.3%
  4. Carnegie Mellon5.5%
  5. Penn4.4%
  6. Georgia Tech4.2%
  7. Columbia4.1%
  8. Harvard3.8%

The 8 most listed schools among the 1,410 people here with a school on file.

Of the 1,410 people here with a school on file, 144 list Stanford, 89 list MIT and 89 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
29%have a public GitHub account on their profile

409 of the 1,421 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

53% of the people who have worked at Palantir Technologies and list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map.

Palantir Technologies
Everyone on the map
  • 53%New York746 · map 33%
  • 29%SF Bay Area414 · map 47%
  • 12%Washington DC172 · map 7%
  • 1%Seattle19 · map 3%
  • 0.7%Los Angeles10 · map 6%
  • 0.3%Denver4 · map 0.2%
  • 0.2%Boston3 · map 0.4%
  • 0.2%Colorado Springs3 · map 0.1%
  • 4%Somewhere else50

1,421 of the 1,422 people who worked at Palantir Technologies list a location, and every share here is over those 1,421.

Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while they worked at Palantir Technologies: 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

  • 1,422 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Palantir Technologies: 698 are there now and 724 have moved on.
  • The most common next employer after Palantir Technologies is Google (69 people, 10% of recorded departures), followed by Meta and Amazon.
  • The most common previous employer before Palantir Technologies is Amazon (88 people), followed by Google and Microsoft.
  • The median tenure at Palantir Technologies is 2y 4m (middle half 1y 2m to 4y).
  • Of those who moved on from Palantir Technologies, 11% went on to a founder title, 22% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 17% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
  • The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Palantir Technologies is 84 on the 0 to 99 scale (1,422 scored).
  • The most common title held at Palantir Technologies is Software Engineer, then Forward Deployed Engineer.
  • Of the 1,410 people here with a school on file, 144 list Stanford (10.2%), then MIT (89). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
  • 53% of the 1,421 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.
  • 29% of the 1,421 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
  • Of the 844 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 332 rose, 492 stayed level and 20 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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