After Southwest Airlines
- 57%Joined a big company17
- 43%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Southwest Airlines most often go to a long tail of companies. The median tenure is 1y 8m
Not Southwest Airlines's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 39 people on a map of 67,181, No. 623 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 390.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 923% of the people here
- Moved on
- 3077% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 8mmiddle half 1y to 3y
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move.
Not enough recorded moves to draw a river for Southwest Airlines yet.
How long people stay
26%<1y
34%1-2y
29%2-4y
9%4-7y
3%7y+
35 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
2013 to 2026: 39 joined, 31 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (9).
Titles held here
- Software Engineer6
- AI Engineer3
- Data Scientist3
- Software Engineer Intern3
4 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 10% of people here.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
37%Titles that rose11 of 30 classified people
- 37%Rose11 people
- 53%Stayed level16 people
- 10%Fell3 people
30 of the 39 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
- UT Dallas10.5%
- UT Austin7.9%
The 2 most listed schools among the 38 people here with a school on file.
4 of the 38 people here with a school on file list UT Dallas and 3 list UT Austin. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
8%have a public GitHub account on their profile
3 of the 39 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
21% of the people who have worked at Southwest Airlines and list a location live in New York today, against 18% of everyone on the map.
Southwest Airlines
Everyone on the map
- 21%New York8 · map 18%
- 15%Dallas-Fort Worth6 · map 0.9%
- 10%SF Bay Area4 · map 41%
- 10%Washington DC4 · map 13%
- 8%Austin3 · map 0.8%
- 36%Somewhere else14
All 39 people who worked at Southwest Airlines 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 working at Southwest Airlines: 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 Southwest Airlines, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 39 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Southwest Airlines: 9 are there now, 30 have moved on.
- Median tenure at Southwest Airlines: 1y 8m, middle half 1y to 3y.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Southwest Airlines, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, fewer than 3 joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 57% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then AI Engineer.
- Top school: UT Dallas, listed by 4 of the 38 people here with one on file (10.5%). Then UT Austin (3).
- 21% of the 39 people here who list a location live in New York today, against 18% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 8% of the 39 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 11 rose, 16 stayed level, 3 fell, out of the 30 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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