After Visa
- 2%Founded something4
- 13%Joined a startup27
- 45%Joined a big company94
- 40%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Visa most often go to Amazon, Google and Microsoft. Of them, 13% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y
Not Visa's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 275 people on a map of 67,181, No. 85 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 2750.4% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 6524% of the people here
- Moved on
- 21076% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2ymiddle half 1y to 3y 2m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Amazon. Most leave for Amazon (8% of recorded departures).
27 of 226 recorded arrivals shown, 199 more from 192 other companies73 of 220 recorded departures shown, 147 more to 128 other companies
How long people stay
25%<1y
25%1-2y
32%2-4y
16%4-7y
2%7y+
194 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
<3<312
4013
6314
191415
16816
181717
342718
392719
333820
242421
313222
242223
231424
261125
10826
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 309 joined, 246 left.
Caliber
79mediantop 10%86
0Eng Scorer caliber, 132 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer75
- Software Engineer Intern74
- Senior Software Engineer51
- Staff Software Engineer25
- Senior Data Engineer9
- Machine Learning Engineer4
- Data Engineer3
- Data Science Intern3
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 17% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 5%Strong7 people
- 42%Solid55 people
- 46%Emerging61 people
- 7%Unproven9 people
132 of the 275 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
7 of the 132 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 5%. 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.
36%Titles that rose77 of 216 classified people
- 36%Rose77 people
- 55%Stayed level119 people
- 9%Fell20 people
216 of the 275 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 Tech14.4%
- UC Berkeley10.0%
- UT Austin5.9%
- Carnegie Mellon4.8%
- Stanford4.8%
- UC San Diego4.4%
- USC4.4%
- UIUC3.7%
The 8 most listed schools among the 271 people here with a school on file.
39 of the 271 people here with a school on file list Georgia Tech, 27 list UC Berkeley and 16 list UT Austin. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
32%have a public GitHub account on their profile
89 of the 275 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
52% of the people who have worked at Visa and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Visa
Everyone on the map
- 52%SF Bay Area143 · map 41%
- 13%New York35 · map 18%
- 8%Seattle23 · map 5%
- 8%Austin21 · map 0.8%
- 6%Washington DC17 · map 13%
- 4%Atlanta11 · map 1%
- 2%Denver5 · map 0.8%
- 1%Boston3 · map 2%
- 6%Somewhere else17
All 275 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 working at Visa: 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 Visa, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 275 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Visa: 65 are there now, 210 have moved on.
- Most leave for Amazon: 17 people, 8% of recorded departures. Then Google and Microsoft.
- Most arrive from Amazon: 7 people. Then Google and Cisco.
- Median tenure at Visa: 2y, middle half 1y to 3y 2m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Visa, 2% went to a founder title next, 13% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 45% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 79 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 132 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: Georgia Tech, listed by 39 of the 271 people here with one on file (14.4%). Then UC Berkeley (27).
- 52% of the 275 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.
- 32% of the 275 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 77 rose, 119 stayed level, 20 fell, out of the 216 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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