After Red Hat
- 29%Joined a startup10
- 14%Joined a big company5
- 57%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Red Hat most often go to a long tail of companies. 29% go small. Median stay 2y 4m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Red Hat's headcount: 41 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 246 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 410.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 410% of the people here
- Moved on
- 3790% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 4mmiddle half 1y 3m to 4y 7m
Put Red Hat 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. Most arrive from CoreOS.
35 recorded departures to 34 companies, none more than 2 to any one of them
6CoreOS6 of 43 recorded arrivals shown, 37 more from 37 other companies0 of 35 recorded departures shown, 35 more to 34 other companies
How long people stay
7%<1y
29%1-2y
36%2-4y
11%4-7y
18%7y+
28 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
2212
1313
2014
4115
3516
2617
7118
3219
3420
2421
3522
0023
2124
0025
0126
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 34 joined, 35 left.
Caliber
78mediantop 10%84
0Eng Scorer caliber, 41 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer Intern8
- Principal Software Engineer4
- Software Engineer4
3 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 12% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 44%Exceptional or solid18 people
- 49%Emerging20 people
- 7%Unproven3 people
41 of the 41 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. Fewer than 3 of the 41 people here with a read sit in them, which is too few to print as a count. A tier is the band an Eng Scorer 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 together with the one next to it, because a bucket that small is a person rather than a pattern.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
34%Titles that rose13 of 38 classified people
- 34%Rose13 people
- 66%Stayed level or fell25 people
38 of the 41 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 who recorded one title here and then left, it is 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. A title that matches no rung is left out rather than guessed, and product, program and project managers are left out entirely, being a different ladder. That leaves 38 of the 41 people here classified, and it leans towards people who have left: someone still here on a single recorded title has nothing to be measured against. A direction holding fewer than 3 people is printed together with the one next to it, because a bucket that small is a person rather than a pattern.
Where they studied
- Purdue7.5%
- Rutgers7.5%
The 2 most listed schools among the 40 people here with a school on file.
Of the 40 people here with a school on file, 3 list Purdue and 3 list Rutgers. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
49%have a public GitHub account on their profile
20 of the 41 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts. An account the check did not find reads the same as no account, so this is a floor rather than a census.
Across the 325 companies on the map that can show this figure, the median is 38%.
Where they are now
49% of the people who have worked at Red Hat and list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map.
Red Hat
Everyone on the map
- 49%New York20 · map 33%
- 39%SF Bay Area16 · map 47%
- 12%Somewhere else5
All 41 people who worked at Red Hat 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 Red Hat: 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.
On the same resumes
Companies that show up most often alongside Red Hat, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 41 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Red Hat: 4 are there now and 37 have moved on.
- The most common previous employer before Red Hat is CoreOS (6 people).
- The median tenure at Red Hat is 2y 4m (middle half 1y 3m to 4y 7m).
- Of those who moved on from Red Hat, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 29% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 14% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Red Hat is 78 on the 0 to 99 scale (41 scored).
- The most common title held at Red Hat is Software Engineer Intern, then Principal Software Engineer.
- Of the 40 people here with a school on file, 3 list Purdue (7.5%), then Rutgers (3). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 49% of the 41 people here who list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map. That is where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 49% of the 41 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
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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