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People who leave Sun Microsystems most often go to Oracle. Median stay 4y 10m

These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Sun Microsystems's headcount: 26 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 374 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.

People on the map
260.1% of everyone on the map
There now
00% of the people here
Moved on
26100% of the people here
Median tenure
4y 10mmiddle half 1y to 6y 8m

Put Sun Microsystems 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 Oracle (16% of recorded departures).

SunMicrosystems13 in · 19 out

13 recorded arrivals from 13 companies, none more than 2 from any one of them

Oracle316%
0 of 13 recorded arrivals shown, 13 more from 13 other companies3 of 19 recorded departures shown, 16 more to 15 other companies

After Sun Microsystems

  • 100%Elsewhere

Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.

How long people stay

27%<1y
18%1-2y
0%2-4y
32%4-7y
23%7y+
4y 10m median tenuremiddle half 1y to 6y 8m

22 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

2012 to 2026: 0 joined, 0 left.

Caliber

Not enough scored profiles here yet (26).

Titles held here

  1. Software Engineer4
  2. Staff Engineer3

2 most common titles, by people who held them.

First job on the record for 54% of people here.

Where they studied

  1. Stanford16.7%
  2. UC Berkeley16.7%

The 2 most listed schools among the 24 people here with a school on file.

Of the 24 people here with a school on file, 4 list Stanford and 4 list UC Berkeley. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.

Public work

Not enough of the record here has been checked.This share needs 30 people whose profile was checked for public accounts, and there are fewer than that here.

Where they are now

81% of the people who have worked at Sun Microsystems and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.

Sun Microsystems
Everyone on the map
  • 81%SF Bay Area21 · map 47%
  • 12%New York3 · map 33%

All 26 people who worked at Sun Microsystems 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 Sun Microsystems: 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.

Key facts

  • 26 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Sun Microsystems: 0 are there now and 26 have moved on.
  • The most common next employer after Sun Microsystems is Oracle (3 people, 16% of recorded departures).
  • The median tenure at Sun Microsystems is 4y 10m (middle half 1y to 6y 8m).
  • Of those who moved on from Sun Microsystems, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, fewer than 3 joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and fewer than 3 joined a company with 10,000 or more.
  • The most common title held at Sun Microsystems is Software Engineer, then Staff Engineer.
  • Of the 24 people here with a school on file, 4 list Stanford (16.7%), then UC Berkeley (4). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
  • 81% of the 26 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.

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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