After Workday
- 8%Founded something8
- 13%Joined a startup13
- 20%Joined a big company20
- 58%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Workday most often go to Meta, Amazon and Apple. 8% found something next. 13% go small. Median stay 4y 1m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Workday's headcount: 147 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 61 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1470.6% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 4631% of the people here
- Moved on
- 10169% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 4y 1mmiddle half 2y 5m to 5y 7m
Put Workday 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 Microsoft. Most leave for Meta (5% of recorded departures).
3 of 138 recorded arrivals shown, 135 more from 130 other companies23 of 104 recorded departures shown, 81 more to 73 other companies
The Workday mafia
8 of the people who left went straight to a founding role, 8% 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
8%<1y
13%1-2y
28%2-4y
35%4-7y
17%7y+
115 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
7412
9513
10414
17815
191416
231317
211318
12919
6520
202021
121622
7423
1524
4325
1126
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 169 joined, 124 left.
Caliber
79mediantop 10%87
0Eng Scorer caliber, 147 scored99
there now 72 moved on 83. The people who left score higher than the people still there.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer26
- Software Development Engineer22
- Software Engineer Intern17
- Software Application Engineer12
- Software Development Engineer III11
- Senior Software Engineer10
- Senior Software Development Engineer8
- Software Development Engineer II8
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 17% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 12%Exceptional or strong17 people
- 38%Solid55 people
- 51%Emerging74 people
146 of the 147 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 17 of the 146 people here with a read sit in them, 12%. 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. A tier holding fewer than 3 people is printed together with the one next to it, because a bucket that small is a person rather than a pattern.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
50%Titles that rose58 of 115 classified people
- 50%Rose58 people
- 50%Stayed level or fell57 people
115 of the 147 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 115 of the 147 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. A direction holding fewer than 3 people is printed together with the one next to it, because a bucket that small is a person rather than a pattern.
Where they studied
- UC Berkeley17.9%
- UC San Diego9.7%
- Cornell9.0%
- UC Davis8.3%
- Cal Poly SLO7.6%
- UCLA6.2%
- Georgia Tech4.8%
- UIUC4.1%
The 8 most listed schools among the 145 people here with a school on file.
Of the 145 people here with a school on file, 26 list UC Berkeley, 14 list UC San Diego and 13 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
42%have a public GitHub account on their profile
61 of the 146 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
79% of the people who have worked at Workday and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Workday
Everyone on the map
- 79%SF Bay Area116 · map 47%
- 15%New York22 · map 33%
- 2%Washington DC3 · map 7%
- 3%Somewhere else5
146 of the 147 people who worked at Workday list a location, and every share here is over those 146.
Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while they worked at Workday: 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 Workday, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 147 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Workday: 46 are there now and 101 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Workday is Meta (5 people, 5% of recorded departures), followed by Amazon and Apple.
- The most common previous employer before Workday is Microsoft (3 people).
- The median tenure at Workday is 4y 1m (middle half 2y 5m to 5y 7m).
- Of those who moved on from Workday, 8% went on to a founder title, 13% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 20% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Workday is 79 on the 0 to 99 scale (147 scored).
- The most common title held at Workday is Software Engineer, then Software Development Engineer.
- Of the 145 people here with a school on file, 26 list UC Berkeley (17.9%), then UC San Diego (14). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 79% of the 146 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.
- 42% of the 146 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
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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