After The Walt Disney
- 3%Founded something3
- 18%Joined a startup19
- 21%Joined a big company22
- 59%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave The Walt Disney most often go to Amazon, Disney Streaming and Microsoft. Of them, 18% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 1y 11m
Not The Walt Disney's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 165 people on a map of 67,181, No. 146 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1650.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 4829% of the people here
- Moved on
- 11771% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 11mmiddle half 1y to 3y 9m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Amazon. Most leave for Amazon (6% of recorded departures).
15 of 143 recorded arrivals shown, 128 more from 121 other companies16 of 112 recorded departures shown, 96 more to 93 other companies
How long people stay
24%<1y
26%1-2y
27%2-4y
17%4-7y
5%7y+
136 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
4012
3413
7<314
10715
6516
11717
141018
171819
111620
11921
19922
6723
18824
171025
3<326
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 157 joined, 113 left.
Caliber
77mediantop 10%84
0Eng Scorer caliber, 106 scored99
there now 77 moved on 77. Current staff and alumni score about the same.
Titles held here
- Senior Software Engineer31
- Software Engineer Intern20
- Software Engineer16
- Lead Software Engineer9
- Senior Data Engineer5
- Software Engineer II4
- Data Engineer3
- Product Manager3
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 10% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 8%Strong8 people
- 26%Solid28 people
- 51%Emerging54 people
- 15%Unproven16 people
106 of the 165 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
8 of the 106 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 8%. 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.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
43%Titles that rose41 of 96 classified people
- 43%Rose41 people
- 48%Stayed level46 people
- 9%Fell9 people
96 of the 165 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
- Georgia Tech7.4%
- UC Berkeley6.8%
- Harvard4.9%
- USC4.9%
- University of Washington4.3%
- NYU3.7%
- UCLA3.7%
- Stanford3.1%
The 8 most listed schools among the 163 people here with a school on file.
12 of the 163 people here with a school on file list Georgia Tech, 11 list UC Berkeley and 8 list Harvard. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
37%have a public GitHub account on their profile
61 of the 165 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 The Walt Disney and list a location live in New York today, against 18% of everyone on the map.
The Walt Disney
Everyone on the map
- 28%New York46 · map 18%
- 21%SF Bay Area35 · map 41%
- 21%Los Angeles34 · map 5%
- 11%Seattle18 · map 5%
- 4%Washington DC6 · map 13%
- 2%Orlando4
- 13%Somewhere else22
All 165 people who worked at The Walt Disney 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 The Walt Disney: 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 The Walt Disney, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 165 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at The Walt Disney: 48 are there now, 117 have moved on.
- Most leave for Amazon: 7 people, 6% of recorded departures. Then Disney Streaming and Microsoft.
- Most arrive from Amazon: 7 people. Then Microsoft and Hulu.
- Median tenure at The Walt Disney: 1y 11m, middle half 1y to 3y 9m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after The Walt Disney, 3% went to a founder title next, 18% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 21% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 77 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 106 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Senior Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: Georgia Tech, listed by 12 of the 163 people here with one on file (7.4%). Then UC Berkeley (11).
- 28% of the 165 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.
- 37% of the 165 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 41 rose, 46 stayed level, 9 fell, out of the 96 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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