After SambaNova
- 15%Joined a startup6
- 55%Joined a big company22
- 30%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave SambaNova most often go to Google, Meta and AWS. Of them, 15% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 4m
Not SambaNova's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 56 people on a map of 67,181, No. 425 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 560.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 1425% of the people here
- Moved on
- 4275% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 4mmiddle half 1y 5m to 4y
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most leave for Google (15% of recorded departures).
41 recorded arrivals from 37 companies, none more than 2 from any one of them
AWS38%0 of 41 recorded arrivals shown, 41 more from 37 other companies16 of 40 recorded departures shown, 24 more to 21 other companies
How long people stay
7%<1y
26%1-2y
41%2-4y
24%4-7y
2%7y+
54 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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3018
3<319
9<320
19<321
11922
<31123
6824
<31025
<3026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2017 to 2026: 56 joined, 42 left.
Caliber
83mediantop 10%92
0Eng Scorer caliber, 33 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer26
- Senior Software Engineer16
- Principal Software Engineer8
- Principal Engineer5
- Senior Principal Engineer5
- Machine Learning Engineer4
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer3
7 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 5% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 24%Strong8 people
- 42%Solid14 people
- 33%Emerging or unproven11 people
33 of the 56 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
8 of the 33 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 24%. 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.
45%Titles that rose20 of 44 classified people
- 45%Rose20 people
- 39%Stayed level17 people
- 16%Fell7 people
44 of the 56 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
- Carnegie Mellon25.5%
- Stanford12.7%
- UC Berkeley12.7%
- University of Michigan9.1%
- Georgia Tech7.3%
- Cornell5.5%
- Rice5.5%
The 7 most listed schools among the 55 people here with a school on file.
14 of the 55 people here with a school on file list Carnegie Mellon, 7 list Stanford and 7 list UC Berkeley. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
21%have a public GitHub account on their profile
12 of the 56 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
91% of the people who have worked at SambaNova and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
SambaNova
Everyone on the map
- 91%SF Bay Area51 · map 41%
- 9%Somewhere else5
All 56 people who worked at SambaNova 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 SambaNova: 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 SambaNova, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 56 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at SambaNova: 14 are there now, 42 have moved on.
- Most leave for Google: 6 people, 15% of recorded departures. Then Meta and AWS.
- Median tenure at SambaNova: 2y 4m, middle half 1y 5m to 4y.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after SambaNova, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 15% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 55% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 83 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 33 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer.
- Top school: Carnegie Mellon, listed by 14 of the 55 people here with one on file (25.4%). Then Stanford (7).
- 91% of the 56 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.
- 21% of the 56 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 20 rose, 17 stayed level, 7 fell, out of the 44 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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