After Visa
- 9%Joined a startup8
- 34%Joined a big company30
- 57%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Visa most often go to Amazon, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Apple. Median stay 2y 4m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Visa's headcount: 106 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 89 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1060.4% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 1615% of the people here
- Moved on
- 9085% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 4mmiddle half 1y 1m to 4y
Put Visa 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 arrive from Google. Most leave for Amazon (8% of recorded departures).
4 of 91 recorded arrivals shown, 87 more from 85 other companies20 of 92 recorded departures shown, 72 more to 64 other companies
How long people stay
25%<1y
17%1-2y
29%2-4y
23%4-7y
6%7y+
52 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
2112
2013
3214
11815
6416
9917
131218
191619
171920
121121
10722
6423
2324
2325
2126
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 116 joined, 100 left.
Caliber
81mediantop 10%86
0Eng Scorer caliber, 106 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer Intern43
- Software Engineer24
- Senior Software Engineer16
- Staff Software Engineer8
4 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 19% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 7%Strong7 people
- 49%Solid52 people
- 44%Emerging or unproven47 people
106 of the 106 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 7 of the 106 people here with a read sit in them, 7%. 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.
39%Titles that rose36 of 93 classified people
- 39%Rose36 people
- 57%Stayed level53 people
- 4%Fell4 people
93 of the 106 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 93 of the 106 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
- UC Berkeley16.0%
- Georgia Tech6.6%
- UC San Diego6.6%
- UT Austin6.6%
- UIUC5.7%
- Carnegie Mellon4.7%
- Stanford3.8%
- USC3.8%
The 8 most listed schools among the 106 people here with a school on file.
Of the 106 people here with a school on file, 17 list UC Berkeley, 7 list Georgia Tech and 7 list UC San Diego. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
41%have a public GitHub account on their profile
43 of the 106 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
66% of the people who have worked at Visa and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Visa
Everyone on the map
- 66%SF Bay Area70 · map 47%
- 21%New York22 · map 33%
- 7%Seattle7 · map 3%
- 3%Washington DC3 · map 7%
- 4%Somewhere else4
All 106 people who worked at Visa 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 Visa: 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 Visa, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 106 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Visa: 16 are there now and 90 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Visa is Amazon (7 people, 8% of recorded departures), followed by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Apple.
- The most common previous employer before Visa is Google (4 people).
- The median tenure at Visa is 2y 4m (middle half 1y 1m to 4y).
- Of those who moved on from Visa, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 9% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 34% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Visa is 81 on the 0 to 99 scale (106 scored).
- The most common title held at Visa is Software Engineer Intern, then Software Engineer.
- Of the 106 people here with a school on file, 17 list UC Berkeley (16.0%), then Georgia Tech (7). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 66% of the 106 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.
- 41% of the 106 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
- Of the 93 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 36 rose, 53 stayed level and 4 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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