Zelcastalumni map

People who leave Wolfram most often go to a long tail of companies. Of them, 52% go somewhere small

Not Wolfram's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 28 people on a map of 67,181, No. 933 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.

People on the map
28Under 0.1% of everyone on the map
There now
14% of the people here
Moved on
2796% of the people here
Median tenure
–fewer than 20 stays here have both a start and an end on the record, too few for a median

Put Wolfram side by side with another employer.

Came from, went to

Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move.

Not enough recorded moves to draw a river for Wolfram yet.

After Wolfram

  • 52%Joined a startup11
  • 48%Elsewhere

Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.

How long people stay

50%<1y
25%1-2y
19%2-4y
6%4-7y
0%7y+
– median tenure

16 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: 23 joined, 24 left.

Caliber

Not enough scored profiles here yet (7).

Titles held here

  1. Student Researcher3

1 most common titles, by people who held them.

First job on the record for 50% of people here.

Where they studied

  1. UIUC37.0%
  2. Carnegie Mellon11.1%
  3. Georgia Tech11.1%

The 3 most listed schools among the 27 people here with a school on file.

10 of the 27 people here with a school on file list UIUC, 3 list Carnegie Mellon and 3 list Georgia Tech. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.

Public work

Not enough of the record here has been checked.This share needs 30 people whose profile was checked for public accounts, and there are fewer here.

Where they are now

61% of the people who have worked at Wolfram and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.

Wolfram
Everyone on the map
  • 61%SF Bay Area17 · map 41%
  • 18%Washington DC5 · map 13%
  • 21%Somewhere else6

All 28 people who worked at Wolfram 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 Wolfram: a metro here isn't an office there. The lower strip is the same metros across the whole map.

Key facts

  • 28 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Wolfram: 1 are there now, 27 have moved on.
  • Of the people with a recorded next move after Wolfram, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 52% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and fewer than 3 joined one of 10,000 or more.
  • Most common title held here: Student Researcher.
  • Top school: UIUC, listed by 10 of the 27 people here with one on file (37.0%). Then Carnegie Mellon (3).
  • 61% of the 28 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.

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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