After Palo Alto Networks
- 3%Founded something3
- 16%Joined a startup16
- 32%Joined a big company31
- 48%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Palo Alto Networks most often go to Meta and Google. Of them, 3% found something next and 16% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y
Not Palo Alto Networks's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 194 people on a map of 67,181, No. 122 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1940.3% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 9549% of the people here
- Moved on
- 9951% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2ymiddle half 1y to 3y 7m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Expanse, acquired by Palo Alto Networks. Most leave for Meta (8% of recorded departures).
29 of 183 recorded arrivals shown, 154 more from 145 other companies12 of 102 recorded departures shown, 90 more to 77 other companies
How long people stay
24%<1y
26%1-2y
29%2-4y
19%4-7y
2%7y+
173 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
<3013
5314
6415
3616
9317
10818
221019
231220
221921
301522
141123
231224
261525
21426
joined left2026 is a partial year
2013 to 2026: 215 joined, 122 left.
Caliber
83mediantop 10%87
0Eng Scorer caliber, 96 scored99
there now 79 moved on 83. The people who left score higher than the people still there.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer33
- Staff Software Engineer29
- Principal Software Engineer26
- Senior Staff Software Engineer26
- Software Engineer Intern22
- Senior Principal Software Engineer8
- Senior Software Engineer7
- Principal Machine Learning Engineer5
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 8% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 11%Exceptional or strong11 people
- 48%Solid46 people
- 38%Emerging36 people
- 3%Unproven3 people
96 of the 194 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
11 of the 96 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 11%. 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.
38%Titles that rose45 of 119 classified people
- 38%Rose45 people
- 45%Stayed level53 people
- 18%Fell21 people
119 of the 194 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
- UC Berkeley13.5%
- Stanford10.4%
- Georgia Tech9.9%
- Carnegie Mellon6.3%
- San Jose State4.7%
- NYU4.2%
- Purdue3.7%
- UC Santa Cruz3.7%
The 8 most listed schools among the 192 people here with a school on file.
26 of the 192 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 20 list Stanford and 19 list Georgia Tech. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
34%have a public GitHub account on their profile
66 of the 194 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
76% of the people who have worked at Palo Alto Networks and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Palo Alto Networks
Everyone on the map
- 76%SF Bay Area148 · map 41%
- 9%New York18 · map 18%
- 4%Washington DC7 · map 13%
- 2%Los Angeles4 · map 5%
- 9%Somewhere else17
All 194 people who worked at Palo Alto Networks 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 Palo Alto Networks: 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 Palo Alto Networks, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 194 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Palo Alto Networks: 95 are there now, 99 have moved on.
- Most leave for Meta: 8 people, 8% of recorded departures. Then Google.
- Most arrive from Expanse, acquired by Palo Alto Networks: 6 people. Then Amazon and Chronosphere.
- Median tenure at Palo Alto Networks: 2y, middle half 1y to 3y 7m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Palo Alto Networks, 3% went to a founder title next, 16% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 32% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 83 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 96 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Staff Software Engineer.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 26 of the 192 people here with one on file (13.5%). Then Stanford (20).
- 76% of the 194 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.
- 34% of the 194 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 45 rose, 53 stayed level, 21 fell, out of the 119 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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