After VMware
- 4%Founded something8
- 16%Joined a startup31
- 29%Joined a big company57
- 51%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave VMware most often go to Google, Meta and Broadcom. 4% found something next. 16% go small. Median stay 2y
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not VMware's headcount: 205 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 40 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 2050.8% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 10% of the people here
- Moved on
- 204100% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2ymiddle half 1y 1m to 3y
Put VMware 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 Amazon. Most leave for Google (6% of recorded departures).
38 of 161 recorded arrivals shown, 123 more from 112 other companies61 of 204 recorded departures shown, 143 more to 128 other companies
The VMware mafia
8 of the people who left went straight to a founding role, 4% of those who moved on, half of them the same month they left. The bars are the ’15 to ’26 classes; earlier founders count in the total.
How long people stay
20%<1y
28%1-2y
35%2-4y
13%4-7y
4%7y+
158 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
151212
211613
181514
12915
81616
15817
111418
131919
371920
291721
162422
11723
02224
0125
0026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 196 joined, 209 left.
Caliber
83mediantop 10%91
0Eng Scorer caliber, 205 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer35
- Member of Technical Staff29
- Software Engineer Intern28
- Senior Member of Technical Staff16
- Senior Software Engineer14
- Staff Software Engineer10
- Member of Technical Staff III9
- Member of Technical Staff Intern8
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 22% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 4%Exceptional8 people
- 18%Strong36 people
- 42%Solid86 people
- 34%Emerging70 people
- 2%Unproven5 people
205 of the 205 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 44 of the 205 people here with a read sit in them, 21%. 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.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
31%Titles that rose59 of 189 classified people
- 31%Rose59 people
- 46%Stayed level87 people
- 23%Fell43 people
189 of the 205 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 189 of the 205 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 Berkeley10.8%
- Stanford6.9%
- Carnegie Mellon4.9%
- Cornell3.9%
- University of Michigan3.9%
- Columbia3.5%
- Cal Poly SLO3.0%
- Stony Brook3.0%
The 8 most listed schools among the 203 people here with a school on file.
Of the 203 people here with a school on file, 22 list UC Berkeley, 14 list Stanford and 10 list Carnegie Mellon. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
52%have a public GitHub account on their profile
107 of the 205 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
72% of the people who have worked at VMware and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
VMware
Everyone on the map
- 72%SF Bay Area148 · map 47%
- 22%New York45 · map 33%
- 2%Seattle5 · map 3%
- 2%Los Angeles4 · map 6%
- 1%Somewhere else3
All 205 people who worked at VMware 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 VMware: 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 VMware, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 205 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at VMware: 1 are there now and 204 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after VMware is Google (13 people, 6% of recorded departures), followed by Meta and Broadcom.
- The most common previous employer before VMware is Amazon (7 people), followed by Cisco and Pivotal Software, Inc..
- The median tenure at VMware is 2y (middle half 1y 1m to 3y).
- Of those who moved on from VMware, 4% went on to a founder title, 16% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 29% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at VMware is 83 on the 0 to 99 scale (205 scored).
- The most common title held at VMware is Software Engineer, then Member of Technical Staff.
- Of the 203 people here with a school on file, 22 list UC Berkeley (10.8%), then Stanford (14). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 72% of the 205 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.
- 52% of the 205 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
- Of the 189 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 59 rose, 87 stayed level and 43 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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