After Target
- 16%Joined a startup24
- 38%Joined a big company57
- 47%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Target most often go to Meta, Amazon and Capital One. Of them, 16% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 1y 9m
Not Target's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 175 people on a map of 67,181, No. 135 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1750.3% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 1810% of the people here
- Moved on
- 15790% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 9mmiddle half 11m to 3y 2m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most leave for Meta (5% of recorded departures).
113 recorded arrivals from 107 companies, none more than 2 from any one of them
Amazon43%0 of 113 recorded arrivals shown, 113 more from 107 other companies23 of 155 recorded departures shown, 132 more to 120 other companies
How long people stay
28%<1y
28%1-2y
28%2-4y
13%4-7y
3%7y+
159 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
6<312
6<313
6514
11615
15816
202117
251618
242219
241920
151821
51722
11923
5624
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 175 joined, 160 left.
Caliber
69mediantop 10%84
0Eng Scorer caliber, 62 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer29
- Software Engineer Intern19
- Senior Software Engineer16
- Data Scientist7
- AI4
- Cashier4
- Electronics Team Member4
- Lead Software Engineer4
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 30% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 23%Exceptional, strong or solid14 people
- 53%Emerging33 people
- 24%Unproven15 people
62 of the 175 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Fewer than 3 of the 62 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, too few to print as a count. 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.
39%Titles that rose41 of 106 classified people
- 39%Rose41 people
- 47%Stayed level50 people
- 14%Fell15 people
106 of the 175 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
- University of Minnesota8.7%
- Georgia Tech8.1%
- Virginia Tech4.1%
- University of Michigan2.9%
- University of Minnesota Medical School2.9%
- Iowa State University2.3%
- Ohio State2.3%
- Arizona State1.7%
The 8 most listed schools among the 172 people here with a school on file.
15 of the 172 people here with a school on file list University of Minnesota, 14 list Georgia Tech and 7 list Virginia Tech. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
25%have a public GitHub account on their profile
44 of the 175 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
28% of the people who have worked at Target and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Target
Everyone on the map
- 28%SF Bay Area49 · map 41%
- 13%Washington DC22 · map 13%
- 12%New York21 · map 18%
- 9%Minneapolis15
- 4%Seattle7 · map 5%
- 3%Denver6 · map 0.8%
- 3%Los Angeles6 · map 5%
- 2%Atlanta4 · map 1%
- 26%Somewhere else45
All 175 people who worked at Target 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 Target: 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 Target, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 175 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Target: 18 are there now, 157 have moved on.
- Most leave for Meta: 8 people, 5% of recorded departures. Then Amazon and Capital One.
- Median tenure at Target: 1y 9m, middle half 11m to 3y 2m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Target, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 16% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 38% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 69 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 62 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: University of Minnesota, listed by 15 of the 172 people here with one on file (8.7%). Then Georgia Tech (14).
- 28% of the 175 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.
- 25% of the 175 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 41 rose, 50 stayed level, 15 fell, out of the 106 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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