After Synopsys
- 16%Joined a startup13
- 29%Joined a big company24
- 55%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Synopsys most often go to Google, Amazon and Bloomberg. Of them, 16% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 7m
Not Synopsys's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 97 people on a map of 67,181, No. 241 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 970.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 99% of the people here
- Moved on
- 8891% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 7mmiddle half 1y 3m to 4y 2m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Cadence Design Systems. Most leave for Google (8% of recorded departures).
11 of 65 recorded arrivals shown, 54 more from 52 other companies26 of 85 recorded departures shown, 59 more to 53 other companies
How long people stay
14%<1y
26%1-2y
30%2-4y
20%4-7y
11%7y+
74 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
3312
<3<313
7314
6515
5616
6517
6818
11919
10520
5921
71222
3<323
4524
5<325
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 82 joined, 80 left.
Caliber
82mediantop 10%88
0Eng Scorer caliber, 36 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer11
- Software Engineer Intern10
- Senior Research & Development Engineer8
- Senior Software Engineer8
- Research & Development Engineer5
- Technical Intern5
- Machine Learning Intern4
- R&D Engineer3
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 28% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 17%Exceptional or strong6 people
- 36%Solid13 people
- 47%Emerging or unproven17 people
36 of the 97 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
6 of the 36 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 17%. A tier is the band a 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 with the one next to it, because that few is a person rather than a pattern.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
47%Titles that rose39 of 83 classified people
- 47%Rose39 people
- 45%Stayed level37 people
- 8%Fell7 people
83 of the 97 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
- UC Berkeley13.4%
- Stanford9.3%
- UIUC9.3%
- UCLA7.2%
- BITS Pilani5.2%
- Carnegie Mellon5.2%
- Georgia Tech5.2%
- National Taiwan University4.1%
The 8 most listed schools among the 97 people here with a school on file.
13 of the 97 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 9 list Stanford and 9 list UIUC. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
40%have a public GitHub account on their profile
39 of the 97 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
77% of the people who have worked at Synopsys and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Synopsys
Everyone on the map
- 77%SF Bay Area75 · map 41%
- 7%New York7 · map 18%
- 6%Seattle6 · map 5%
- 4%Boston4 · map 2%
- 5%Somewhere else5
All 97 people who worked at Synopsys 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 Synopsys: 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 Synopsys, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 97 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Synopsys: 9 are there now, 88 have moved on.
- Most leave for Google: 7 people, 8% of recorded departures. Then Amazon and Bloomberg.
- Most arrive from Cadence Design Systems: 5 people. Then Ansys and Meta.
- Median tenure at Synopsys: 2y 7m, middle half 1y 3m to 4y 2m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Synopsys, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 16% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 29% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 82 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 36 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 13 of the 97 people here with one on file (13.4%). Then Stanford (9).
- 77% of the 97 people here who list a location live in SF Bay Area today, against 41% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 40% of the 97 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 39 rose, 37 stayed level, 7 fell, out of the 83 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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