After Raytheon
- 3%Founded something9
- 15%Joined a startup51
- 32%Joined a big company109
- 50%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Raytheon most often go to Lockheed Martin, RTX and Northrop Grumman. Of them, 15% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 7m
Not Raytheon's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 423 people on a map of 67,181, No. 51 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 4230.6% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 8219% of the people here
- Moved on
- 34181% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 7mmiddle half 1y 5m to 4y 7m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Northrop Grumman. Most leave for Lockheed Martin (7% of recorded departures).
50 of 326 recorded arrivals shown, 276 more from 257 other companies105 of 347 recorded departures shown, 242 more to 193 other companies
The Raytheon mafia
9 of the people who left went straight to a founding role, 3% of those who moved on, half of them the same month they left. The bars cover the ’15 to ’26 classes; earlier founders still count in the total.
How long people stay
13%<1y
23%1-2y
33%2-4y
16%4-7y
15%7y+
369 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
8712
8613
14414
241415
331116
341917
372818
534019
263420
333721
373622
363323
153024
161625
5826
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 379 joined, 323 left.
Caliber
67mediantop 10%84
0Eng Scorer caliber, 167 scored99
there now 63 moved on 70. The people who left score higher than the people still there.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer91
- Senior Software Engineer62
- Software Engineer II41
- Software Engineer Intern34
- Software Engineer I18
- Principal Software Engineer11
- Senior Software Engineer II9
- Systems Engineer II8
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 21% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 5%Strong9 people
- 14%Solid23 people
- 58%Emerging97 people
- 23%Unproven38 people
167 of the 423 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
9 of the 167 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 5%. 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.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
42%Titles that rose141 of 335 classified people
- 42%Rose141 people
- 48%Stayed level160 people
- 10%Fell34 people
335 of the 423 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
- Georgia Tech13.3%
- Virginia Tech4.0%
- University of Maryland3.8%
- George Washington3.6%
- Johns Hopkins3.3%
- George Mason2.9%
- University of Arizona2.4%
- MIT2.1%
The 8 most listed schools among the 421 people here with a school on file.
56 of the 421 people here with a school on file list Georgia Tech, 17 list Virginia Tech and 16 list University of Maryland. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
17%have a public GitHub account on their profile
73 of the 423 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
29% of the people who have worked at Raytheon and list a location live in Washington DC today, against 13% of everyone on the map.
Raytheon
Everyone on the map
- 29%Washington DC121 · map 13%
- 14%SF Bay Area58 · map 41%
- 8%New York32 · map 18%
- 6%Los Angeles25 · map 5%
- 6%Denver24 · map 0.8%
- 5%Boston23 · map 2%
- 4%Dallas-Fort Worth16 · map 0.9%
- 4%Seattle16 · map 5%
- 26%Somewhere else108
All 423 people who worked at Raytheon 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 Raytheon: 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 Raytheon, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 423 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Raytheon: 82 are there now, 341 have moved on.
- Most leave for Lockheed Martin: 24 people, 7% of recorded departures. Then RTX and Northrop Grumman.
- Most arrive from Northrop Grumman: 16 people. Then RTX and Lockheed Martin.
- Median tenure at Raytheon: 2y 7m, middle half 1y 5m to 4y 7m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Raytheon, 3% went to a founder title next, 15% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 32% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 67 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 167 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer.
- Top school: Georgia Tech, listed by 56 of the 421 people here with one on file (13.3%). Then Virginia Tech (17).
- 29% of the 423 people here who list a location live in Washington DC today, against 13% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 17% of the 423 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 141 rose, 160 stayed level, 34 fell, out of the 335 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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