After Thoughtworks
- 21%Joined a startup7
- 79%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Thoughtworks most often go to a long tail of companies. 21% go small. Median stay 2y
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Thoughtworks's headcount: 36 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 282 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 360.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 38% of the people here
- Moved on
- 3392% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2ymiddle half 1y 1m to 4y 10m
Put Thoughtworks 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.
Not enough recorded moves to draw a river for Thoughtworks yet.
How long people stay
23%<1y
26%1-2y
23%2-4y
6%4-7y
23%7y+
35 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
1012
2113
5214
1215
7416
4617
5418
3119
0420
2221
0222
1123
0124
0125
0026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 31 joined, 31 left.
Caliber
79mediantop 10%90
0Eng Scorer caliber, 36 scored99
Titles held here
- Application Developer6
- Software Engineer6
- Software Developer5
- Senior Software Engineer3
4 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 11% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 17%Strong6 people
- 22%Solid8 people
- 61%Emerging or unproven22 people
36 of the 36 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 6 of the 36 people here with a read sit in them, 17%. 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.
34%Titles that rose12 of 35 classified people
- 34%Rose12 people
- 49%Stayed level17 people
- 17%Fell6 people
35 of the 36 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 35 of the 36 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.
Where they studied
- University of Waterloo11.1%
- UC Berkeley8.3%
The 2 most listed schools among the 36 people here with a school on file.
Of the 36 people here with a school on file, 4 list University of Waterloo and 3 list UC Berkeley. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
56%have a public GitHub account on their profile
20 of the 36 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
61% of the people who have worked at Thoughtworks and list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map.
Thoughtworks
Everyone on the map
- 61%New York22 · map 33%
- 33%SF Bay Area12 · map 47%
All 36 people who worked at Thoughtworks 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 Thoughtworks: 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 Thoughtworks, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 36 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Thoughtworks: 3 are there now and 33 have moved on.
- The median tenure at Thoughtworks is 2y (middle half 1y 1m to 4y 10m).
- Of those who moved on from Thoughtworks, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 21% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and fewer than 3 joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Thoughtworks is 79 on the 0 to 99 scale (36 scored).
- The most common title held at Thoughtworks is Application Developer, then Software Engineer.
- Of the 36 people here with a school on file, 4 list University of Waterloo (11.1%), then UC Berkeley (3). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 61% of the 36 people here who list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map. That is where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 56% of the 36 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
- Of the 35 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 12 rose, 17 stayed level and 6 fell.
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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