After Target
- 7%Joined a startup3
- 21%Joined a big company9
- 71%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Target most often go to Meta. Median stay 2y
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Target's headcount: 46 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 215 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 460.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 24% of the people here
- Moved on
- 4496% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2ymiddle half 9m to 3y 4m
Put Target 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 Meta (7% of recorded departures).
27 recorded arrivals from 27 companies, none more than 2 from any one of them
0 of 27 recorded arrivals shown, 27 more from 27 other companies3 of 42 recorded departures shown, 39 more to 36 other companies
How long people stay
28%<1y
22%1-2y
39%2-4y
11%4-7y
0%7y+
36 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
2012
1213
1114
3415
4116
6617
10718
3519
5320
5521
1322
1223
0124
0125
0126
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 42 joined, 42 left.
Caliber
74mediantop 10%85
0Eng Scorer caliber, 46 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer Intern8
- Software Engineer5
2 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 37% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 24%Exceptional, strong or solid11 people
- 61%Emerging28 people
- 15%Unproven7 people
46 of the 46 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. Fewer than 3 of the 46 people here with a read sit in them, which is too few to print as a count. 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.
40%Titles that rose10 of 25 classified people
- 40%Rose10 people
- 60%Stayed level or fell15 people
25 of the 46 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 25 of the 46 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. A direction 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.
Where they studied
- University of Michigan8.9%
- University of Minnesota8.9%
The 2 most listed schools among the 45 people here with a school on file.
Of the 45 people here with a school on file, 4 list University of Michigan and 4 list University of Minnesota. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
17%have a public GitHub account on their profile
8 of the 46 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
46% of the people who have worked at Target and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Target
Everyone on the map
- 46%SF Bay Area21 · map 47%
- 28%New York13 · map 33%
- 9%Los Angeles4 · map 6%
- 17%Somewhere else8
All 46 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 they worked at Target: 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 Target, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 46 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Target: 2 are there now and 44 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Target is Meta (3 people, 7% of recorded departures).
- The median tenure at Target is 2y (middle half 9m to 3y 4m).
- Of those who moved on from Target, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 7% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 21% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Target is 74 on the 0 to 99 scale (46 scored).
- The most common title held at Target is Software Engineer Intern, then Software Engineer.
- Of the 45 people here with a school on file, 4 list University of Michigan (8.9%), then University of Minnesota (4). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 46% of the 46 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.
- 17% of the 46 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
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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