After WD
- 17%Joined a startup12
- 42%Joined a big company30
- 42%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave WD most often go to Amazon, AWS and Cisco. Of them, 17% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 1y 11m
Not WD's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 78 people on a map of 67,181, No. 302 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 780.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 34% of the people here
- Moved on
- 7596% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 11mmiddle half 1y 5m to 3y 4m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most leave for Amazon (8% of recorded departures).
How long people stay
11%<1y
40%1-2y
30%2-4y
15%4-7y
4%7y+
47 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 77 joined, 78 left.
Caliber
77mediantop 10%84
0Eng Scorer caliber, 38 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer10
- Software Engineer Intern6
- Senior Engineer5
- Firmware Engineer4
- Staff Engineer4
- Staff Software Engineer4
- Senior Software Engineer3
- Software Development Intern3
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 40% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 34%Exceptional, strong or solid13 people
- 58%Emerging22 people
- 8%Unproven3 people
38 of the 78 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Fewer than 3 of the 38 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, too few to print as a count. 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. A tier holding fewer than 3 people is printed with the one next to it, because that few is a person rather than a pattern.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
49%Titles that rose33 of 68 classified people
- 49%Rose33 people
- 37%Stayed level25 people
- 15%Fell10 people
68 of the 78 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 Tech14.1%
- San Jose State11.5%
- UC Berkeley10.3%
- UC Irvine10.3%
- UC San Diego7.7%
- Arizona State3.9%
- Cal Poly SLO3.9%
- California State Polytechnic University, Pomona3.9%
The 8 most listed schools among the 78 people here with a school on file.
11 of the 78 people here with a school on file list Georgia Tech, 9 list San Jose State and 8 list UC Berkeley. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
37%have a public GitHub account on their profile
29 of the 78 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
65% of the people who have worked at WD and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
WD
Everyone on the map
- 65%SF Bay Area51 · map 41%
- 10%Los Angeles8 · map 5%
- 6%New York5 · map 18%
- 6%Seattle5 · map 5%
- 12%Somewhere else9
All 78 people who worked at WD 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 WD: 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 WD, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 78 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at WD: 3 are there now, 75 have moved on.
- Most leave for Amazon: 6 people, 8% of recorded departures. Then AWS and Cisco.
- Median tenure at WD: 1y 11m, middle half 1y 5m to 3y 4m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after WD, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 17% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 42% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 77 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 38 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: Georgia Tech, listed by 11 of the 78 people here with one on file (14.1%). Then San Jose State (9).
- 65% of the 78 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.
- 37% of the 78 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 33 rose, 25 stayed level, 10 fell, out of the 68 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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