After Walmart
- 5%Founded something6
- 13%Joined a startup16
- 29%Joined a big company37
- 53%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Walmart most often go to Amazon, Meta and Google. 5% found something next. 13% go small. Median stay 2y 5m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Walmart's headcount: 202 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 42 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 2020.8% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 7638% of the people here
- Moved on
- 12662% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 5mmiddle half 1y 5m to 3y 8m
Put Walmart 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 Amazon (5% of recorded departures).
25 of 188 recorded arrivals shown, 163 more from 155 other companies31 of 130 recorded departures shown, 99 more to 92 other companies
How long people stay
14%<1y
24%1-2y
39%2-4y
16%4-7y
7%7y+
187 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
1112
6413
8414
6615
10416
161117
221218
241319
19820
212821
222022
341123
221024
71025
0426
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 218 joined, 146 left.
Caliber
78mediantop 10%85
0Eng Scorer caliber, 202 scored99
there now 73 moved on 81. The people who left score higher than the people still there.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer47
- Senior Software Engineer43
- Staff Software Engineer27
- Software Engineer Intern23
- Software Engineer III21
- Senior Engineering Manager11
- Software Engineer II9
- Principal Software Engineer8
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 15% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 7%Strong14 people
- 29%Solid59 people
- 60%Emerging121 people
- 4%Unproven8 people
202 of the 202 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 14 of the 202 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.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
43%Titles that rose63 of 145 classified people
- 43%Rose63 people
- 48%Stayed level69 people
- 9%Fell13 people
145 of the 202 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 145 of the 202 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 Berkeley11.3%
- NYU6.7%
- Cornell4.6%
- Stanford3.6%
- UIUC3.6%
- San Jose State3.1%
- UCLA3.1%
- Carnegie Mellon2.6%
The 8 most listed schools among the 195 people here with a school on file.
Of the 195 people here with a school on file, 22 list UC Berkeley, 13 list NYU and 9 list Cornell. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
31%have a public GitHub account on their profile
63 of the 202 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
49% of the people who have worked at Walmart and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Walmart
Everyone on the map
- 49%SF Bay Area98 · map 47%
- 34%New York69 · map 33%
- 6%Washington DC13 · map 7%
- 4%Los Angeles8 · map 6%
- 2%Seattle5 · map 3%
- 4%Somewhere else9
All 202 people who worked at Walmart 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 Walmart: 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 Walmart, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 202 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Walmart: 76 are there now and 126 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Walmart is Amazon (7 people, 5% of recorded departures), followed by Meta and Google.
- The most common previous employer before Walmart is Amazon (6 people), followed by Jet and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- The median tenure at Walmart is 2y 5m (middle half 1y 5m to 3y 8m).
- Of those who moved on from Walmart, 5% went on to a founder title, 13% 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 Walmart is 78 on the 0 to 99 scale (202 scored).
- The most common title held at Walmart is Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer.
- Of the 195 people here with a school on file, 22 list UC Berkeley (11.3%), then NYU (13). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 49% of the 202 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.
- 31% of the 202 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
- Of the 145 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 63 rose, 69 stayed level and 13 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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