After Walmart
- 3%Founded something12
- 13%Joined a startup54
- 45%Joined a big company194
- 39%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Walmart most often go to Meta, Amazon and Microsoft. Of them, 13% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 3m
Not Walmart's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 673 people on a map of 67,181, No. 33 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 6731.0% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 23835% of the people here
- Moved on
- 43565% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 3mmiddle half 1y 3m to 3y 5m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Amazon. Most leave for Meta (9% of recorded departures).
77 of 591 recorded arrivals shown, 514 more from 435 other companies116 of 440 recorded departures shown, 324 more to 263 other companies
The Walmart mafia
12 of the people who left went straight to a founding role, 3% of those who moved on, half of them the same month they left. The bars cover the ’15 to ’26 classes; earlier founders still count in the total.
How long people stay
17%<1y
24%1-2y
40%2-4y
14%4-7y
5%7y+
643 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
4<312
16913
141114
201315
321616
372517
572418
864019
443720
738521
847122
973923
954424
435325
122126
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 714 joined, 489 left.
Caliber
77mediantop 10%85
0Eng Scorer caliber, 256 scored99
there now 73 moved on 78. The people who left score higher than the people still there.
Titles held here
- Senior Software Engineer126
- Software Engineer123
- Software Engineer III84
- Staff Software Engineer62
- Software Engineer Intern56
- Software Engineer II39
- Data Scientist33
- Senior Data Scientist26
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 14% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 7%Strong17 people
- 26%Solid66 people
- 60%Emerging153 people
- 8%Unproven20 people
256 of the 673 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
17 of the 256 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 7%. 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.
44%Titles that rose211 of 476 classified people
- 44%Rose211 people
- 45%Stayed level212 people
- 11%Fell53 people
476 of the 673 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 Tech7.3%
- UC Berkeley5.6%
- San Jose State4.0%
- NYU3.5%
- Arizona State3.1%
- Carnegie Mellon3.1%
- Stanford3.1%
- Cornell2.4%
The 8 most listed schools among the 656 people here with a school on file.
48 of the 656 people here with a school on file list Georgia Tech, 37 list UC Berkeley and 26 list San Jose State. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
28%have a public GitHub account on their profile
188 of the 673 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
48% of the people who have worked at Walmart and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Walmart
Everyone on the map
- 48%SF Bay Area322 · map 41%
- 15%New York101 · map 18%
- 11%Washington DC71 · map 13%
- 4%Seattle29 · map 5%
- 2%Dallas-Fort Worth16 · map 0.9%
- 2%Los Angeles16 · map 5%
- 1%Austin10 · map 0.8%
- 1%Little Rock10
- 15%Somewhere else98
All 673 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 working at Walmart: 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 Walmart, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 673 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Walmart: 238 are there now, 435 have moved on.
- Most leave for Meta: 40 people, 9% of recorded departures. Then Amazon and Microsoft.
- Most arrive from Amazon: 15 people. Then Google and Capital One.
- Median tenure at Walmart: 2y 3m, middle half 1y 3m to 3y 5m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Walmart, 3% 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: 77 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 256 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Senior Software Engineer, then Software Engineer.
- Top school: Georgia Tech, listed by 48 of the 656 people here with one on file (7.3%). Then UC Berkeley (37).
- 48% of the 673 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.
- 28% of the 673 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 211 rose, 212 stayed level, 53 fell, out of the 476 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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