After Verkada
- 8%Founded something5
- 20%Joined a startup13
- 15%Joined a big company10
- 58%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Verkada most often go to Meta and Robinhood. Of them, 8% found something next and 20% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 3m
Not Verkada's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 112 people on a map of 67,181, No. 211 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1120.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 4742% of the people here
- Moved on
- 6558% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 3mmiddle half 1y 1m to 3y 11m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Meta. Most leave for Meta (9% of recorded departures).
23 of 121 recorded arrivals shown, 98 more from 84 other companies9 of 69 recorded departures shown, 60 more to 53 other companies
How long people stay
22%<1y
18%1-2y
34%2-4y
23%4-7y
2%7y+
99 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
<3018
6<319
15720
201021
311322
271823
151524
91425
5426
joined left2026 is a partial year
2018 to 2026: 129 joined, 82 left.
Caliber
83mediantop 10%88
0Eng Scorer caliber, 84 scored99
there now 82 moved on 83. Current staff and alumni score about the same.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer57
- Software Engineer Intern20
- Senior Software Engineer17
- Engineering Manager7
- Staff Software Engineer4
5 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 3% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 17%Strong14 people
- 50%Solid42 people
- 33%Emerging or unproven28 people
84 of the 112 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
14 of the 84 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 17%. 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.
38%Titles that rose30 of 78 classified people
- 38%Rose30 people
- 56%Stayed level44 people
- 5%Fell4 people
78 of the 112 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
- UC Berkeley18.0%
- Carnegie Mellon9.0%
- Stanford7.2%
- UCLA7.2%
- Georgia Tech6.3%
- UIUC6.3%
- University of Waterloo6.3%
- MIT4.5%
The 8 most listed schools among the 111 people here with a school on file.
20 of the 111 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 10 list Carnegie Mellon and 8 list Stanford. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
30%have a public GitHub account on their profile
34 of the 112 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
84% of the people who have worked at Verkada and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Verkada
Everyone on the map
- 84%SF Bay Area94 · map 41%
- 13%New York15 · map 18%
- 3%Somewhere else3
All 112 people who worked at Verkada 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 Verkada: 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 Verkada, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 112 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Verkada: 47 are there now, 65 have moved on.
- Most leave for Meta: 6 people, 9% of recorded departures. Then Robinhood.
- Most arrive from Meta: 9 people. Then Amazon and AWS.
- Median tenure at Verkada: 2y 3m, middle half 1y 1m to 3y 11m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Verkada, 8% went to a founder title next, 20% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 15% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 83 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 84 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 20 of the 111 people here with one on file (18.0%). Then Carnegie Mellon (10).
- 84% of the 112 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.
- 30% of the 112 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 30 rose, 44 stayed level, 4 fell, out of the 78 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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