After Snowflake
- 4%Founded something3
- 19%Joined a startup13
- 26%Joined a big company18
- 51%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Snowflake most often go to Google, Databricks and Meta. 4% found something next. 19% go small. Median stay 2y 2m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Snowflake's headcount: 170 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 53 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1700.6% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 10260% of the people here
- Moved on
- 6840% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 2mmiddle half 11m to 3y 3m
Put Snowflake 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 Neeva. Most leave for Google (7% of recorded departures).
63 of 174 recorded arrivals shown, 111 more from 93 other companies19 of 70 recorded departures shown, 51 more to 45 other companies
How long people stay
28%<1y
18%1-2y
40%2-4y
9%4-7y
5%7y+
151 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
1012
0013
0014
1015
1016
1017
2118
6019
16820
141221
21922
451123
311624
241225
12426
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 175 joined, 73 left.
Caliber
84mediantop 10%93
0Eng Scorer caliber, 170 scored99
there now 84 moved on 85. Current staff and alumni score about the same.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer73
- Senior Software Engineer42
- Software Engineer Intern24
- Software Engineer II8
- Engineering Manager7
- Staff Software Engineer5
- Principal Software Engineer4
- Principal Engineer3
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 2%Exceptional4 people
- 35%Strong60 people
- 46%Solid78 people
- 16%Emerging or unproven28 people
170 of the 170 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 64 of the 170 people here with a read sit in them, 38%. 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.
39%Titles that rose35 of 90 classified people
- 39%Rose35 people
- 54%Stayed level49 people
- 7%Fell6 people
90 of the 170 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 170 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 Berkeley17.2%
- University of Waterloo7.7%
- Stanford7.1%
- University of Michigan4.7%
- Carnegie Mellon4.1%
- UIUC4.1%
- University of Washington4.1%
- Georgia Tech3.6%
The 8 most listed schools among the 169 people here with a school on file.
Of the 169 people here with a school on file, 29 list UC Berkeley, 13 list University of Waterloo and 12 list Stanford. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
35%have a public GitHub account on their profile
59 of the 170 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
77% of the people who have worked at Snowflake and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Snowflake
Everyone on the map
- 77%SF Bay Area131 · map 47%
- 14%New York23 · map 33%
- 8%Seattle13 · map 3%
- 2%Somewhere else3
All 170 people who worked at Snowflake 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 Snowflake: 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 Snowflake, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 170 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Snowflake: 102 are there now and 68 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Snowflake is Google (5 people, 7% of recorded departures), followed by Databricks and Meta.
- The most common previous employer before Snowflake is Neeva (14 people), followed by Amazon and Meta.
- The median tenure at Snowflake is 2y 2m (middle half 11m to 3y 3m).
- Of those who moved on from Snowflake, 4% went on to a founder title, 19% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 26% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Snowflake is 84 on the 0 to 99 scale (170 scored).
- The most common title held at Snowflake is Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer.
- Of the 169 people here with a school on file, 29 list UC Berkeley (17.2%), then University of Waterloo (13). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 77% of the 170 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.
- 35% of the 170 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, 35 rose, 49 stayed level and 6 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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