After Verizon
- 1%Founded something3
- 12%Joined a startup28
- 39%Joined a big company91
- 47%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Verizon most often go to Amazon, Capital One and IBM. Of them, 12% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 1y 11m
Not Verizon's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 304 people on a map of 67,181, No. 78 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 3040.5% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 6722% of the people here
- Moved on
- 23778% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 11mmiddle half 1y to 2y 11m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Capital One. Most leave for Amazon (4% of recorded departures).
24 of 237 recorded arrivals shown, 213 more from 197 other companies46 of 247 recorded departures shown, 201 more to 179 other companies
How long people stay
22%<1y
29%1-2y
36%2-4y
9%4-7y
5%7y+
264 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
3612
7513
21714
261815
241616
213217
151718
191519
172320
302421
202922
301523
301624
231125
3326
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 289 joined, 237 left.
Caliber
71mediantop 10%85
0Eng Scorer caliber, 90 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer37
- Software Engineer Intern17
- Senior Software Engineer16
- AI13
- AI Engineer7
- Artificial Intelligence Engineer7
- Data Engineer7
- Machine Learning Engineer7
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 20% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 8%Strong7 people
- 26%Solid23 people
- 51%Emerging46 people
- 16%Unproven14 people
90 of the 304 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
7 of the 90 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.
38%Titles that rose80 of 212 classified people
- 38%Rose80 people
- 50%Stayed level107 people
- 12%Fell25 people
212 of the 304 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 Tech6.1%
- Rutgers3.4%
- Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University3.0%
- University of Maryland3.0%
- George Mason2.7%
- UC Berkeley2.7%
- Arizona State2.4%
- NYU2.4%
The 8 most listed schools among the 296 people here with a school on file.
18 of the 296 people here with a school on file list Georgia Tech, 10 list Rutgers and 9 list Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
20%have a public GitHub account on their profile
61 of the 304 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
19% of the people who have worked at Verizon and list a location live in Washington DC today, against 13% of everyone on the map.
Verizon
Everyone on the map
- 19%Washington DC57 · map 13%
- 18%New York55 · map 18%
- 18%SF Bay Area54 · map 41%
- 9%Dallas-Fort Worth27 · map 0.9%
- 5%Seattle15 · map 5%
- 2%Los Angeles7 · map 5%
- 2%Atlanta6 · map 1%
- 2%Boston6 · map 2%
- 25%Somewhere else77
All 304 people who worked at Verizon 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 Verizon: 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 Verizon, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 304 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Verizon: 67 are there now, 237 have moved on.
- Most leave for Amazon: 10 people, 4% of recorded departures. Then Capital One and IBM.
- Most arrive from Capital One: 7 people. Then AT&T and Bank of America.
- Median tenure at Verizon: 1y 11m, middle half 1y to 2y 11m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Verizon, 1% went to a founder title next, 12% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 39% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 71 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 90 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: Georgia Tech, listed by 18 of the 296 people here with one on file (6.1%). Then Rutgers (10).
- 19% of the 304 people here who list a location live in Washington DC today, against 13% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 20% of the 304 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 80 rose, 107 stayed level, 25 fell, out of the 212 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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