After Pure Storage
- 23%Joined a startup19
- 30%Joined a big company24
- 47%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Pure Storage most often go to Meta, Google and Jane Street. Of them, 23% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 10m
Not Pure Storage's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 115 people on a map of 67,181, No. 204 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1150.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 3127% of the people here
- Moved on
- 8473% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 10mmiddle half 1y 3m to 4y 1m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Google. Most leave for Meta (13% of recorded departures).
14 of 94 recorded arrivals shown, 80 more from 74 other companies26 of 85 recorded departures shown, 59 more to 53 other companies
How long people stay
18%<1y
20%1-2y
35%2-4y
16%4-7y
11%7y+
83 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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3013
3<314
10515
5416
141317
9818
14919
13920
181421
141122
101123
8824
3425
<3026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 127 joined, 97 left.
Caliber
82mediantop 10%89
0Eng Scorer caliber, 68 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer37
- Software Engineer Intern36
- Member of Technical Staff24
- Senior Software Engineer9
- Staff Software Engineer4
5 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 11% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 19%Exceptional or strong13 people
- 35%Solid24 people
- 46%Emerging or unproven31 people
68 of the 115 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
13 of the 68 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 19%. 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.
26%Titles that rose20 of 77 classified people
- 26%Rose20 people
- 57%Stayed level44 people
- 17%Fell13 people
77 of the 115 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 Berkeley14.8%
- Carnegie Mellon9.6%
- Georgia Tech6.1%
- UIUC6.1%
- Caltech4.4%
- Harvey Mudd4.4%
- Princeton4.4%
- Stanford4.4%
The 8 most listed schools among the 115 people here with a school on file.
17 of the 115 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 11 list Carnegie Mellon and 7 list Georgia Tech. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
33%have a public GitHub account on their profile
38 of the 115 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
83% of the people who have worked at Pure Storage and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Pure Storage
Everyone on the map
- 83%SF Bay Area96 · map 41%
- 10%New York11 · map 18%
- 3%Seattle3 · map 5%
- 4%Somewhere else5
All 115 people who worked at Pure Storage 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 Pure Storage: 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 Pure Storage, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 115 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Pure Storage: 31 are there now, 84 have moved on.
- Most leave for Meta: 11 people, 13% of recorded departures. Then Google and Jane Street.
- Most arrive from Google: 5 people. Then Meta and Microsoft.
- Median tenure at Pure Storage: 2y 10m, middle half 1y 3m to 4y 1m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Pure Storage, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 23% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 30% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 82 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 68 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 17 of the 115 people here with one on file (14.8%). Then Carnegie Mellon (11).
- 83% of the 115 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.
- 33% of the 115 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 20 rose, 44 stayed level, 13 fell, out of the 77 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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