After Salesforce
- 3%Founded something10
- 15%Joined a startup49
- 18%Joined a big company59
- 64%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Salesforce most often go to Meta, Google and Palantir Technologies. 3% found something next. 15% go small. Median stay 2y 10m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Salesforce's headcount: 451 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 17 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 4511.7% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 12427% of the people here
- Moved on
- 32773% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 10mmiddle half 1y 5m to 4y 9m
Put Salesforce 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 Microsoft. Most leave for Meta (6% of recorded departures).
51 of 410 recorded arrivals shown, 359 more from 312 other companies92 of 357 recorded departures shown, 265 more to 223 other companies
The Salesforce mafia
10 of the people who left went straight to a founding role, 3% of those who moved on, half of them within a month of leaving. The bars are the ’15 to ’26 classes; earlier founders count in the total.
How long people stay
14%<1y
20%1-2y
30%2-4y
27%4-7y
9%7y+
348 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
11112
141113
211714
242215
332616
533717
704718
715419
543820
867221
576122
303623
131324
18825
7926
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 562 joined, 452 left.
Caliber
81mediantop 10%88
0Eng Scorer caliber, 451 scored99
there now 78 moved on 83. The people who left score higher than the people still there.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer Intern177
- Software Engineer107
- Senior Software Engineer54
- Lead Software Engineer29
- Member of Technical Staff25
- Senior Member of Technical Staff17
- Associate Software Engineer16
- Lead Member of Technical Staff16
8 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.
- 2%Exceptional11 people
- 13%Strong59 people
- 42%Solid189 people
- 38%Emerging172 people
- 4%Unproven20 people
451 of the 451 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 70 of the 451 people here with a read sit in them, 16%. 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.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
41%Titles that rose147 of 360 classified people
- 41%Rose147 people
- 49%Stayed level176 people
- 10%Fell37 people
360 of the 451 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 360 of the 451 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.
Where they studied
- UC Berkeley21.6%
- Carnegie Mellon6.2%
- Georgia Tech4.5%
- Stanford4.2%
- UIUC3.8%
- UC San Diego3.1%
- UCLA3.1%
- Purdue2.9%
The 8 most listed schools among the 449 people here with a school on file.
Of the 449 people here with a school on file, 97 list UC Berkeley, 28 list Carnegie Mellon and 20 list Georgia Tech. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
41%have a public GitHub account on their profile
183 of the 451 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
64% of the people who have worked at Salesforce and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Salesforce
Everyone on the map
- 64%SF Bay Area290 · map 47%
- 27%New York124 · map 33%
- 4%Los Angeles16 · map 6%
- 2%Washington DC9 · map 7%
- 2%Seattle7 · map 3%
- 1%Somewhere else5
All 451 people who worked at Salesforce 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 Salesforce: 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 Salesforce, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 451 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Salesforce: 124 are there now and 327 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Salesforce is Meta (23 people, 6% of recorded departures), followed by Google and Palantir Technologies.
- The most common previous employer before Salesforce is Microsoft (12 people), followed by Amazon and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- The median tenure at Salesforce is 2y 10m (middle half 1y 5m to 4y 9m).
- Of those who moved on from Salesforce, 3% went on to a founder title, 15% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 18% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Salesforce is 81 on the 0 to 99 scale (451 scored).
- The most common title held at Salesforce is Software Engineer Intern, then Software Engineer.
- Of the 449 people here with a school on file, 97 list UC Berkeley (21.6%), then Carnegie Mellon (28). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 64% of the 451 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.
- 41% of the 451 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
- Of the 360 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 147 rose, 176 stayed level and 37 fell.
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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