Zelcastalumni map

People who leave PlayStation most often go to a long tail of companies. 18% go small

These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not PlayStation's headcount: 23 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 429 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.

People on the map
230.1% of everyone on the map
There now
626% of the people here
Moved on
1774% of the people here
Median tenure
only 15 stays here have both a start and an end on the record, too few to take a median from

Put PlayStation 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.

Not enough recorded moves to draw a river for PlayStation yet.

After PlayStation

  • 18%Joined a startup3
  • 24%Joined a big company4
  • 59%Elsewhere

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

How long people stay

7%<1y
13%1-2y
33%2-4y
40%4-7y
7%7y+
median tenure

15 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: 24 joined, 20 left.

Caliber

Not enough scored profiles here yet (23).

Titles held here

  1. Software Engineer Intern6
  2. Software Engineer5
  3. Senior Software Engineer3

3 most common titles, by people who held them.

First job on the record for 26% of people here.

Where they studied

  1. UC San Diego17.4%
  2. UC Berkeley13.0%

The 2 most listed schools among the 23 people here with a school on file.

Of the 23 people here with a school on file, 4 list UC San Diego and 3 list UC Berkeley. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.

Public work

Not enough of the record here has been checked.This share needs 30 people whose profile was checked for public accounts, and there are fewer than that here.

Where they are now

78% of the people who have worked at PlayStation and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.

PlayStation
Everyone on the map
  • 78%SF Bay Area18 · map 47%
  • 13%New York3 · map 33%

All 23 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 they worked at PlayStation: 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

  • 23 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at PlayStation: 6 are there now and 17 have moved on.
  • Of those who moved on from PlayStation, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 18% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 24% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
  • The most common title held at PlayStation is Software Engineer Intern, then Software Engineer.
  • Of the 23 people here with a school on file, 4 list UC San Diego (17.4%), then UC Berkeley (3). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
  • 78% of the 23 people here who list a location live in SF Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map. That is where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.

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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