After RTX
- 13%Joined a startup20
- 40%Joined a big company59
- 47%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave RTX most often go to Northrop Grumman, Nightwing and Raytheon. Of them, 13% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 11m
Not RTX's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 227 people on a map of 67,181, No. 102 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 2270.3% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 7232% of the people here
- Moved on
- 15568% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 11mmiddle half 1y 2m to 4y 6m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Raytheon. Most leave for Northrop Grumman (8% of recorded departures).
36 of 177 recorded arrivals shown, 141 more from 135 other companies50 of 154 recorded departures shown, 104 more to 91 other companies
How long people stay
18%<1y
19%1-2y
32%2-4y
21%4-7y
9%7y+
211 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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0<313
0<314
3<315
6<316
17317
15<318
38919
462120
222821
324322
242423
61224
81425
8<326
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 226 joined, 163 left.
Caliber
63mediantop 10%78
0Eng Scorer caliber, 89 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer54
- Software Engineer II33
- Senior Software Engineer32
- Principal Software Engineer11
- Software Engineer Intern11
- Software Engineer I10
- Systems Engineer II9
- Electrical Engineer5
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 18% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 8%Solid7 people
- 58%Emerging52 people
- 34%Unproven30 people
89 of the 227 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Fewer than 3 of the 89 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.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
39%Titles that rose65 of 165 classified people
- 39%Rose65 people
- 49%Stayed level81 people
- 12%Fell19 people
165 of the 227 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 Tech15.5%
- Virginia Tech5.3%
- University of Arizona4.4%
- University of Maryland4.4%
- Johns Hopkins3.5%
- George Mason2.7%
- UT Dallas2.7%
- George Washington2.2%
The 8 most listed schools among the 226 people here with a school on file.
35 of the 226 people here with a school on file list Georgia Tech, 12 list Virginia Tech and 10 list University of Arizona. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
16%have a public GitHub account on their profile
37 of the 227 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
26% of the people who have worked at RTX and list a location live in Washington DC today, against 13% of everyone on the map.
RTX
Everyone on the map
- 26%Washington DC58 · map 13%
- 11%SF Bay Area26 · map 41%
- 9%Boston21 · map 2%
- 9%Los Angeles20 · map 5%
- 8%New York18 · map 18%
- 5%Dallas-Fort Worth11 · map 0.9%
- 3%Denver7 · map 0.8%
- 2%Baltimore5 · map 0.7%
- 27%Somewhere else61
All 227 people who worked at RTX 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 RTX: 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 RTX, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 227 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at RTX: 72 are there now, 155 have moved on.
- Most leave for Northrop Grumman: 13 people, 8% of recorded departures. Then Nightwing and Raytheon.
- Most arrive from Raytheon: 24 people. Then Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin.
- Median tenure at RTX: 2y 11m, middle half 1y 2m to 4y 6m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after RTX, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 13% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 40% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 63 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 89 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Engineer II.
- Top school: Georgia Tech, listed by 35 of the 226 people here with one on file (15.5%). Then Virginia Tech (12).
- 26% of the 227 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.
- 16% of the 227 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 65 rose, 81 stayed level, 19 fell, out of the 165 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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