After Samsara
- 7%Founded something7
- 24%Joined a startup23
- 12%Joined a big company11
- 56%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Samsara most often go to Meta, Pylon and Applied Intuition. Of them, 7% found something next and 24% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 3y
Not Samsara's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 150 people on a map of 67,181, No. 163 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1500.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 5738% of the people here
- Moved on
- 9362% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 3ymiddle half 1y 11m to 5y
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Amazon. Most leave for Meta (5% of recorded departures).
22 of 148 recorded arrivals shown, 126 more from 121 other companies23 of 95 recorded departures shown, 72 more to 68 other companies
How long people stay
10%<1y
18%1-2y
35%2-4y
28%4-7y
10%7y+
136 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
<3<315
<3016
5017
20318
52719
211820
91721
132322
181523
10524
8925
3726
joined left2026 is a partial year
2015 to 2026: 162 joined, 105 left.
Caliber
84mediantop 10%89
0Eng Scorer caliber, 120 scored99
there now 83 moved on 84. Current staff and alumni score about the same.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer58
- Senior Software Engineer35
- Software Engineer Intern16
- Engineering Manager4
- Senior Engineering Manager4
- Senior Software Engineer II4
- Staff Software Engineer4
- Data Engineer3
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 7% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 28%Exceptional or strong33 people
- 50%Solid60 people
- 22%Emerging or unproven26 people
119 of the 150 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
33 of the 119 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 28%. 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.
49%Titles that rose55 of 113 classified people
- 49%Rose55 people
- 47%Stayed level53 people
- 4%Fell5 people
113 of the 150 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
- UC Berkeley20.1%
- MIT11.4%
- UIUC9.4%
- Georgia Tech7.4%
- Carnegie Mellon4.0%
- UC San Diego4.0%
- UCLA3.4%
- University of Maryland2.7%
The 8 most listed schools among the 149 people here with a school on file.
30 of the 149 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 17 list MIT and 14 list UIUC. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
47%have a public GitHub account on their profile
70 of the 149 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
85% of the people who have worked at Samsara and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Samsara
Everyone on the map
- 85%SF Bay Area127 · map 41%
- 7%New York11 · map 18%
- 2%Seattle3 · map 5%
- 5%Somewhere else8
149 of the 150 people who worked at Samsara list a location, and every share here is over those 149.
Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while working at Samsara: 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 Samsara, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 150 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Samsara: 57 are there now, 93 have moved on.
- Most leave for Meta: 5 people, 5% of recorded departures. Then Pylon and Applied Intuition.
- Most arrive from Amazon: 5 people. Then Cisco Meraki and Google.
- Median tenure at Samsara: 3y, middle half 1y 11m to 5y.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Samsara, 7% went to a founder title next, 24% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 12% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 84 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 120 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 30 of the 149 people here with one on file (20.1%). Then MIT (17).
- 85% of the 149 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.
- 47% of the 149 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 55 rose, 53 stayed level, 5 fell, out of the 113 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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