Zelcastalumni map

People who leave SambaNova most often go to Google and Meta. Median stay 2y 8m

These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not SambaNova's headcount: 25 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 390 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.

People on the map
250.1% of everyone on the map
There now
416% of the people here
Moved on
2184% of the people here
Median tenure
2y 8mmiddle half 1y 7m to 4y 8m

Put SambaNova 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 leave for Google (19% of recorded departures).

SambaNova18 in · 21 out

18 recorded arrivals from 17 companies, none more than 2 from any one of them

Google419%Meta314%
0 of 18 recorded arrivals shown, 18 more from 17 other companies7 of 21 recorded departures shown, 14 more to 13 other companies

After SambaNova

  • 62%Joined a big company13
  • 38%Elsewhere

Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.

How long people stay

4%<1y
29%1-2y
33%2-4y
29%4-7y
4%7y+
2y 8m median tenuremiddle half 1y 7m to 4y 8m

24 stays with both a start and an end on the record.

Who comes and goes, by year

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joined left2026 is a partial year

2012 to 2026: 25 joined, 21 left.

Caliber

Not enough scored profiles here yet (25).

Titles held here

  1. Software Engineer15
  2. Senior Software Engineer8
  3. Principal Software Engineer5

3 most common titles, by people who held them.

First job on the record for 4% of people here.

Whether a title rose here

The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.

52%Titles that rose12 of 23 classified people

  • 52%Rose12 people
  • 48%Stayed level or fell11 people

23 of the 25 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 23 of the 25 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. A direction holding fewer than 3 people is printed together with the one next to it, because a bucket that small is a person rather than a pattern.

Where they studied

  1. Carnegie Mellon32.0%
  2. University of Michigan20.0%

The 2 most listed schools among the 25 people here with a school on file.

Of the 25 people here with a school on file, 8 list Carnegie Mellon and 5 list University of Michigan. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.

Public work

Not enough of the record here has been checked.This share needs 30 people whose profile was checked for public accounts, and there are fewer than that here.

Where they are now

92% of the people who have worked at SambaNova and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.

SambaNova
Everyone on the map
  • 92%SF Bay Area23 · map 47%

All 25 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 they worked at SambaNova: 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.

Key facts

  • 25 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at SambaNova: 4 are there now and 21 have moved on.
  • The most common next employer after SambaNova is Google (4 people, 19% of recorded departures), followed by Meta.
  • The median tenure at SambaNova is 2y 8m (middle half 1y 7m to 4y 8m).
  • Of those who moved on from SambaNova, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, fewer than 3 joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 62% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
  • The most common title held at SambaNova is Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer.
  • Of the 25 people here with a school on file, 8 list Carnegie Mellon (32.0%), then University of Michigan (5). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
  • 92% of the 25 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.

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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