After SAIC
- 2%Founded something4
- 20%Joined a startup45
- 28%Joined a big company64
- 51%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave SAIC most often go to Leidos, Booz Allen and Northrop Grumman. Of them, 20% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 4m
Not SAIC's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 320 people on a map of 67,181, No. 74 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 3200.5% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 7323% of the people here
- Moved on
- 24777% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 4mmiddle half 1y 3m to 4y 1m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Lockheed Martin. Most leave for Leidos (9% of recorded departures).
43 of 239 recorded arrivals shown, 196 more from 178 other companies65 of 235 recorded departures shown, 170 more to 158 other companies
How long people stay
18%<1y
25%1-2y
30%2-4y
16%4-7y
12%7y+
297 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
182512
62213
7814
7415
7<316
111217
12518
21919
131620
131221
271822
171423
271124
242225
7726
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 217 joined, 187 left.
Caliber
64mediantop 10%79
0Eng Scorer caliber, 79 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer58
- Senior Software Engineer50
- Principal Software Engineer10
- Software Engineer Intern8
- Data Scientist7
- Software Developer7
- Senior Data Scientist6
- Associate Software Engineer5
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.
- 10%Strong or solid8 people
- 56%Emerging44 people
- 34%Unproven27 people
79 of the 320 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Fewer than 3 of the 79 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. A tier holding fewer than 3 people is printed with the one next to it, because that few is a person rather than a pattern.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
36%Titles that rose81 of 227 classified people
- 36%Rose81 people
- 53%Stayed level121 people
- 11%Fell25 people
227 of the 320 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
- George Mason9.1%
- University of Maryland7.2%
- Virginia Tech6.9%
- University of Virginia5.7%
- Georgia Tech5.0%
- George Washington3.8%
- The University of Alabama3.1%
- University of Maryland Global Campus2.8%
The 8 most listed schools among the 318 people here with a school on file.
29 of the 318 people here with a school on file list George Mason, 23 list University of Maryland and 22 list Virginia Tech. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
18%have a public GitHub account on their profile
56 of the 320 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
57% of the people who have worked at SAIC and list a location live in Washington DC today, against 13% of everyone on the map.
SAIC
Everyone on the map
- 57%Washington DC182 · map 13%
- 7%Huntsville23
- 6%SF Bay Area19 · map 41%
- 2%Baltimore7 · map 0.7%
- 2%New York7 · map 18%
- 2%Seattle6 · map 5%
- 2%Denver5 · map 0.8%
- 0.9%Atlanta3 · map 1%
- 21%Somewhere else68
All 320 people who worked at SAIC 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 SAIC: 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 SAIC, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 320 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at SAIC: 73 are there now, 247 have moved on.
- Most leave for Leidos: 21 people, 9% of recorded departures. Then Booz Allen and Northrop Grumman.
- Most arrive from Lockheed Martin: 9 people. Then Northrop Grumman and Booz Allen.
- Median tenure at SAIC: 2y 4m, middle half 1y 3m to 4y 1m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after SAIC, 2% went to a founder title next, 20% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 28% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 64 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 79 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer.
- Top school: George Mason, listed by 29 of the 318 people here with one on file (9.1%). Then University of Maryland (23).
- 57% of the 320 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.
- 18% of the 320 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 81 rose, 121 stayed level, 25 fell, out of the 227 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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