After Rocket Fuel
- 24%Joined a startup7
- 31%Joined a big company9
- 45%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Rocket Fuel most often go to Meta and Google. Of them, 24% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 6m
Not Rocket Fuel's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 30 people on a map of 67,181, No. 853 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 30Under 0.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 00% of the people here
- Moved on
- 30100% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 6mmiddle half 2y to 3y 4m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most leave for Meta (19% of recorded departures).
0 of 21 recorded arrivals shown, 21 more from 21 other companies10 of 32 recorded departures shown, 22 more to 20 other companies
How long people stay
5%<1y
18%1-2y
64%2-4y
9%4-7y
5%7y+
22 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
3<312
12413
7314
4415
<3916
3417
0518
0<319
<3020
0021
0<322
0023
0024
0025
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 32 joined, 33 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (18).
Titles held here
- Software Engineer10
- Software Engineer Intern5
- Senior Rocket Scientist4
3 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 30% of people here.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
26%Titles that rose7 of 27 classified people
- 26%Rose7 people
- 59%Stayed level16 people
- 15%Fell4 people
27 of the 30 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
- Stanford20.0%
- UC Berkeley13.3%
- Carnegie Mellon10.0%
The 3 most listed schools among the 30 people here with a school on file.
6 of the 30 people here with a school on file list Stanford, 4 list UC Berkeley and 3 list Carnegie Mellon. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
57%have a public GitHub account on their profile
17 of the 30 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
73% of the people who have worked at Rocket Fuel and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Rocket Fuel
Everyone on the map
- 73%SF Bay Area22 · map 41%
- 17%New York5 · map 18%
- 10%Somewhere else3
All 30 people who worked at Rocket Fuel 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 Rocket Fuel: 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 Rocket Fuel, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 30 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Rocket Fuel: 0 are there now, 30 have moved on.
- Most leave for Meta: 6 people, 19% of recorded departures. Then Google.
- Median tenure at Rocket Fuel: 2y 6m, middle half 2y to 3y 4m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Rocket Fuel, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 24% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 31% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: Stanford, listed by 6 of the 30 people here with one on file (20.0%). Then UC Berkeley (4).
- 73% of the 30 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.
- 57% of the 30 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 7 rose, 16 stayed level, 4 fell, out of the 27 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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