After PlayStation
- 14%Joined a startup5
- 36%Joined a big company13
- 50%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave PlayStation most often go to Google. Of them, 14% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 3y 2m
Not PlayStation's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 48 people on a map of 67,181, No. 498 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 480.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 1021% of the people here
- Moved on
- 3879% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 3y 2mmiddle half 1y 8m to 4y 6m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most leave for Google (8% of recorded departures).
40 recorded arrivals from 40 companies, none more than 2 from any one of them
0 of 40 recorded arrivals shown, 40 more from 40 other companies3 of 37 recorded departures shown, 34 more to 30 other companies
How long people stay
19%<1y
9%1-2y
31%2-4y
34%4-7y
6%7y+
32 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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5515
5416
4<317
4318
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<3<320
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5423
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 48 joined, 41 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (28).
Titles held here
- Software Engineer Intern10
- Software Engineer8
- Senior Software Engineer4
- Software Engineer II3
4 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 17% of people here.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
60%Titles that rose21 of 35 classified people
- 60%Rose21 people
- 40%Stayed level or fell14 people
35 of the 48 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. A direction holding fewer than 3 people is printed with the one next to it, because that few is a person rather than a pattern.
Where they studied
- UC Berkeley16.7%
- UC San Diego16.7%
- Carnegie Mellon8.3%
- Stanford8.3%
- MIT6.3%
The 5 most listed schools among the 48 people here with a school on file.
8 of the 48 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 8 list UC San Diego and 4 list Carnegie Mellon. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
38%have a public GitHub account on their profile
18 of the 48 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
75% of the people who have worked at PlayStation and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
PlayStation
Everyone on the map
- 75%SF Bay Area36 · map 41%
- 8%New York4 · map 18%
- 6%Los Angeles3 · map 5%
- 10%Somewhere else5
All 48 people who worked at PlayStation 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 PlayStation: 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 PlayStation, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 48 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at PlayStation: 10 are there now, 38 have moved on.
- Most leave for Google: 3 people, 8% of recorded departures.
- Median tenure at PlayStation: 3y 2m, middle half 1y 8m to 4y 6m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after PlayStation, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 14% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 36% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer Intern, then Software Engineer.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 8 of the 48 people here with one on file (16.7%). Then UC San Diego (8).
- 75% of the 48 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.
- 38% of the 48 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
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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