After Palantir
- 11%Founded something93
- 22%Joined a startup197
- 19%Joined a big company169
- 48%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Palantir most often go to Google, Meta and Microsoft. Of them, 11% found something next and 22% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 2m
Not Palantir's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 1,905 people on a map of 67,181, No. 7 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1,9052.8% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 97851% of the people here
- Moved on
- 92749% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 2mmiddle half 1y 1m to 4y
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).
492 of 1,903 recorded arrivals shown, 1,411 more from 1,004 other companies210 of 906 recorded departures shown, 696 more to 511 other companies
The Palantir mafia
93 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 cover the ’15 to ’26 classes; earlier founders still count in the total.
How long people stay
18%<1y
25%1-2y
31%2-4y
17%4-7y
8%7y+
1,739 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
592712
1076113
986214
1317715
857716
586317
617518
945919
956120
1226821
1989222
26113123
26813524
32012325
992626
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 2,056 joined, 1,137 left.
Caliber
84mediantop 10%93
0Eng Scorer caliber, 1,530 scored99
there now 83 moved on 87. The people who left score higher than the people still there.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer577
- Forward Deployed Engineer402
- Forward Deployed Software Engineer311
- Software Engineer Intern193
- Deployment Strategist98
- Technical Lead77
- Forward Deployed Software Engineer Intern50
- Forward Deployed Engineer Intern37
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%Exceptional94 people
- 26%Strong400 people
- 43%Solid664 people
- 21%Emerging318 people
- 3%Unproven53 people
1,529 of the 1,905 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
494 of the 1,529 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 32%. 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.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
42%Titles that rose439 of 1,044 classified people
- 42%Rose439 people
- 56%Stayed level582 people
- 2%Fell23 people
1,044 of the 1,905 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
- Stanford9.7%
- MIT6.5%
- Georgia Tech5.8%
- UC Berkeley5.8%
- Carnegie Mellon5.2%
- Penn4.3%
- Columbia3.7%
- Cornell3.5%
The 8 most listed schools among the 1,890 people here with a school on file.
183 of the 1,890 people here with a school on file list Stanford, 123 list MIT and 110 list Georgia Tech. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
27%have a public GitHub account on their profile
505 of the 1,904 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
45% of the people who have worked at Palantir and list a location live in New York today, against 18% of everyone on the map.
Palantir
Everyone on the map
- 45%New York852 · map 18%
- 27%SF Bay Area506 · map 41%
- 17%Washington DC320 · map 13%
- 2%Seattle42 · map 5%
- 1%Los Angeles22 · map 5%
- 0.8%Denver16 · map 0.8%
- 0.7%Boston14 · map 2%
- 0.4%Chicago7 · map 0.6%
- 7%Somewhere else125
1,904 of the 1,905 people who worked at Palantir list a location, and every share here is over those 1,904.
Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while working at Palantir: 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 Palantir, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 1,905 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Palantir: 978 are there now, 927 have moved on.
- Most leave for Google: 91 people, 10% of recorded departures. Then Meta and Microsoft.
- Most arrive from Amazon: 101 people. Then Google and Microsoft.
- Median tenure at Palantir: 2y 2m, middle half 1y 1m to 4y.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Palantir, 11% went to a founder title next, 22% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 19% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 84 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 1,530 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Forward Deployed Engineer.
- Top school: Stanford, listed by 183 of the 1,890 people here with one on file (9.7%). Then MIT (123).
- 45% of the 1,904 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.
- 27% of the 1,904 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 439 rose, 582 stayed level, 23 fell, out of the 1,044 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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