After Sandia National Laboratories
- 12%Joined a startup8
- 30%Joined a big company21
- 58%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Sandia National Laboratories most often go to Google, Amazon and Amazon Web Services (AWS). 12% go small. Median stay 2y 11m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Sandia National Laboratories's headcount: 84 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 117 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 840.3% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 67% of the people here
- Moved on
- 7893% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 11mmiddle half 1y 1m to 4y 10m
Put Sandia National Laboratories 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 (6% of recorded departures).
43 recorded arrivals from 40 companies, none more than 2 from any one of them
Amazon34%
Amazon Web Services34%0 of 43 recorded arrivals shown, 43 more from 40 other companies13 of 69 recorded departures shown, 56 more to 54 other companies
How long people stay
25%<1y
14%1-2y
28%2-4y
22%4-7y
11%7y+
36 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
3012
4213
2514
7415
10916
4617
11818
5619
6420
3721
7822
5223
2224
1425
0126
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 70 joined, 68 left.
Caliber
82mediantop 10%93
0Eng Scorer caliber, 84 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer5
- Member of Technical Staff4
- Research & Development Intern4
- Research Intern4
- Intern3
- Research and Development Intern3
6 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 38% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 20%Exceptional or strong17 people
- 36%Solid30 people
- 39%Emerging32 people
- 5%Unproven4 people
83 of the 84 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 17 of the 83 people here with a read sit in them, 20%. 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.
37%Titles that rose20 of 54 classified people
- 37%Rose20 people
- 56%Stayed level30 people
- 7%Fell4 people
54 of the 84 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 54 of the 84 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 Berkeley14.8%
- Stanford11.1%
- Carnegie Mellon7.4%
- Georgia Tech7.4%
- UCLA7.4%
- Cornell6.2%
- The University of New Mexico4.9%
- Harvard3.7%
The 8 most listed schools among the 81 people here with a school on file.
Of the 81 people here with a school on file, 12 list UC Berkeley, 9 list Stanford and 6 list Carnegie Mellon. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
29%have a public GitHub account on their profile
24 of the 83 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
72% of the people who have worked at Sandia National Laboratories and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Sandia National Laboratories
Everyone on the map
- 72%SF Bay Area60 · map 47%
- 8%New York7 · map 33%
- 7%Washington DC6 · map 7%
- 12%Somewhere else10
83 of the 84 people who worked at Sandia National Laboratories list a location, and every share here is over those 83.
Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while they worked at Sandia National Laboratories: 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 Sandia National Laboratories, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 84 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Sandia National Laboratories: 6 are there now and 78 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Sandia National Laboratories is Google (4 people, 6% of recorded departures), followed by Amazon and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- The median tenure at Sandia National Laboratories is 2y 11m (middle half 1y 1m to 4y 10m).
- Of those who moved on from Sandia National Laboratories, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 12% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 30% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Sandia National Laboratories is 82 on the 0 to 99 scale (84 scored).
- The most common title held at Sandia National Laboratories is Software Engineer, then Member of Technical Staff.
- Of the 81 people here with a school on file, 12 list UC Berkeley (14.8%), then Stanford (9). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 72% of the 83 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.
- 29% of the 83 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
- Of the 54 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 20 rose, 30 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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