After Qualtrics
- 5%Founded something4
- 12%Joined a startup9
- 33%Joined a big company25
- 49%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Qualtrics most often go to Meta, Palantir and Google. Of them, 5% found something next and 12% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 3y 2m
Not Qualtrics's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 105 people on a map of 67,181, No. 221 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1050.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 2625% of the people here
- Moved on
- 7975% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 3y 2mmiddle half 1y 5m to 4y 10m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Amazon. Most leave for Meta (8% of recorded departures).
14 of 98 recorded arrivals shown, 84 more from 80 other companies24 of 77 recorded departures shown, 53 more to 52 other companies
How long people stay
13%<1y
20%1-2y
28%2-4y
30%4-7y
8%7y+
83 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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<3<314
5<315
3316
11617
10418
14719
14820
241121
191822
4923
01224
5425
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 111 joined, 87 left.
Caliber
79mediantop 10%84
0Eng Scorer caliber, 50 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer32
- Software Engineer Intern24
- Software Engineer II18
- Senior Software Engineer15
- Staff Software Engineer7
- Software Engineer I5
- Data Scientist3
- Software Support Engineer3
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 10% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 42%Strong or solid21 people
- 48%Emerging24 people
- 10%Unproven5 people
50 of the 105 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Fewer than 3 of the 50 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, too few to print as a count. 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.
45%Titles that rose37 of 82 classified people
- 45%Rose37 people
- 55%Stayed level or fell45 people
82 of the 105 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
- Georgia Tech14.3%
- BYU10.5%
- University of Washington6.7%
- Carnegie Mellon5.7%
- UC Berkeley5.7%
- UIUC4.8%
- University of Maryland4.8%
- University of Michigan4.8%
The 8 most listed schools among the 105 people here with a school on file.
15 of the 105 people here with a school on file list Georgia Tech, 11 list BYU and 7 list University of Washington. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
28%have a public GitHub account on their profile
29 of the 105 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
30% of the people who have worked at Qualtrics and list a location live in Seattle today, against 5% of everyone on the map.
Qualtrics
Everyone on the map
- 30%Seattle31 · map 5%
- 23%SF Bay Area24 · map 41%
- 14%Washington DC15 · map 13%
- 11%New York12 · map 18%
- 8%Salt Lake City8
- 14%Somewhere else15
All 105 people who worked at Qualtrics 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 Qualtrics: 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 Qualtrics, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 105 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Qualtrics: 26 are there now, 79 have moved on.
- Most leave for Meta: 6 people, 8% of recorded departures. Then Palantir and Google.
- Most arrive from Amazon: 7 people. Then Clarabridge (acquired by Qualtrics).
- Median tenure at Qualtrics: 3y 2m, middle half 1y 5m to 4y 10m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Qualtrics, 5% went to a founder title next, 12% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 33% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 79 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 50 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: Georgia Tech, listed by 15 of the 105 people here with one on file (14.3%). Then BYU (11).
- 30% of the 105 people here who list a location live in Seattle today, against 5% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 28% of the 105 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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