After Riot Games
- 12%Joined a startup5
- 12%Joined a big company5
- 76%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Riot Games most often go to a long tail of companies. 12% go small. Median stay 2y 3m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Riot Games's headcount: 52 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 178 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 520.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 1019% of the people here
- Moved on
- 4281% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 3mmiddle half 1y to 4y 2m
Put Riot Games 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 Amazon.
41 recorded departures to 39 companies, none more than 2 to any one of them
7Amazon
7 of 47 recorded arrivals shown, 40 more from 39 other companies0 of 41 recorded departures shown, 41 more to 39 other companies
How long people stay
20%<1y
26%1-2y
17%2-4y
29%4-7y
9%7y+
35 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
1112
3113
1014
2215
3416
2217
5518
4319
11620
9821
7622
4623
3224
1225
0026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 56 joined, 48 left.
Caliber
82mediantop 10%88
0Eng Scorer caliber, 52 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer Intern21
- Software Engineer11
- Senior Software Engineer6
3 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.
- 17%Exceptional or strong9 people
- 42%Solid22 people
- 25%Emerging13 people
- 15%Unproven8 people
52 of the 52 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 9 of the 52 people here with a read sit in them, 17%. 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.
58%Titles that rose22 of 38 classified people
- 58%Rose22 people
- 42%Stayed level or fell16 people
38 of the 52 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 52 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
- UC Berkeley13.7%
- UC San Diego11.8%
- Stanford9.8%
- University of Waterloo7.8%
- Carnegie Mellon5.9%
- Columbia5.9%
- Penn5.9%
- UCLA5.9%
The 8 most listed schools among the 51 people here with a school on file.
Of the 51 people here with a school on file, 7 list UC Berkeley, 6 list UC San Diego and 5 list Stanford. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
35%have a public GitHub account on their profile
18 of the 52 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
48% of the people who have worked at Riot Games and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Riot Games
Everyone on the map
- 48%SF Bay Area25 · map 47%
- 37%Los Angeles19 · map 6%
- 13%New York7 · map 33%
All 52 people who worked at Riot Games 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 Riot Games: 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 Riot Games, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 52 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Riot Games: 10 are there now and 42 have moved on.
- The most common previous employer before Riot Games is Amazon (7 people).
- The median tenure at Riot Games is 2y 3m (middle half 1y to 4y 2m).
- Of those who moved on from Riot Games, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 12% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 12% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Riot Games is 82 on the 0 to 99 scale (52 scored).
- The most common title held at Riot Games is Software Engineer Intern, then Software Engineer.
- Of the 51 people here with a school on file, 7 list UC Berkeley (13.7%), then UC San Diego (6). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 48% of the 52 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.
- 35% of the 52 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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