After Samsara
- 8%Founded something6
- 24%Joined a startup18
- 9%Joined a big company7
- 59%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Samsara most often go to Pylon, Applied Intuition and Google. 8% found something next. 24% go small. Median stay 3y
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Samsara's headcount: 118 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 79 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1180.4% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 4437% of the people here
- Moved on
- 7463% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 3ymiddle half 2y to 4y 7m
Put Samsara 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 Amazon. Most leave for Pylon (7% of recorded departures).
15 of 114 recorded arrivals shown, 99 more from 95 other companies11 of 76 recorded departures shown, 65 more to 59 other companies
How long people stay
9%<1y
15%1-2y
41%2-4y
27%4-7y
7%7y+
107 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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1115
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17218
46719
171520
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102122
161423
5224
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2326
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 129 joined, 85 left.
Caliber
84mediantop 10%90
0Eng Scorer caliber, 118 scored99
there now 83 moved on 84. Current staff and alumni score about the same.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer49
- Senior Software Engineer30
- Software Engineer Intern13
- Engineering Manager4
- Senior Engineering Manager4
- Staff Software Engineer4
- Firmware Engineering Intern3
- Software Engineer II3
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 8% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 28%Exceptional or strong33 people
- 51%Solid60 people
- 21%Emerging or unproven24 people
117 of the 118 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 33 of the 117 people here with a read sit in them, 28%. 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. A tier 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.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
44%Titles that rose40 of 90 classified people
- 44%Rose40 people
- 51%Stayed level46 people
- 4%Fell4 people
90 of the 118 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 90 of the 118 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 Berkeley23.1%
- MIT12.8%
- UIUC11.1%
- Carnegie Mellon4.3%
- Georgia Tech4.3%
- UC San Diego3.4%
- University of Maryland3.4%
- University of Michigan3.4%
The 8 most listed schools among the 117 people here with a school on file.
Of the 117 people here with a school on file, 27 list UC Berkeley, 15 list MIT and 13 list UIUC. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
47%have a public GitHub account on their profile
55 of the 117 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
88% of the people who have worked at Samsara and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Samsara
Everyone on the map
- 88%SF Bay Area103 · map 47%
- 9%New York10 · map 33%
- 3%Somewhere else4
117 of the 118 people who worked at Samsara list a location, and every share here is over those 117.
Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while they worked at Samsara: 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 Samsara, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 118 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Samsara: 44 are there now and 74 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Samsara is Pylon (5 people, 7% of recorded departures), followed by Applied Intuition and Google.
- The most common previous employer before Samsara is Amazon (5 people), followed by Cisco Meraki and Meta.
- The median tenure at Samsara is 3y (middle half 2y to 4y 7m).
- Of those who moved on from Samsara, 8% went on to a founder title, 24% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 9% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Samsara is 84 on the 0 to 99 scale (118 scored).
- The most common title held at Samsara is Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer.
- Of the 117 people here with a school on file, 27 list UC Berkeley (23.1%), then MIT (15). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 88% of the 117 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.
- 47% of the 117 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
- Of the 90 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 40 rose, 46 stayed level and 4 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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