After Workday
- 6%Founded something12
- 13%Joined a startup25
- 33%Joined a big company63
- 48%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Workday most often go to Meta, Google and Apple. Of them, 6% found something next and 13% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 3y 3m
Not Workday's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 311 people on a map of 67,181, No. 75 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 3110.5% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 12039% of the people here
- Moved on
- 19161% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 3y 3mmiddle half 1y 7m to 5y
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Microsoft. Most leave for Meta (7% of recorded departures).
28 of 290 recorded arrivals shown, 262 more from 247 other companies56 of 202 recorded departures shown, 146 more to 125 other companies
The Workday mafia
12 of the people who left went straight to a founding role, 6% 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
11%<1y
19%1-2y
30%2-4y
25%4-7y
15%7y+
254 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
7412
131013
18514
291415
312016
402317
422718
261819
9820
313621
283022
311123
121324
281225
7526
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 352 joined, 236 left.
Caliber
78mediantop 10%87
0Eng Scorer caliber, 169 scored99
there now 72 moved on 82. The people who left score higher than the people still there.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer48
- Software Development Engineer38
- Software Engineer Intern36
- Senior Software Engineer26
- Senior Software Development Engineer20
- Software Development Engineer III18
- Software Application Engineer17
- Software Development Engineer II14
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 16% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 11%Exceptional or strong18 people
- 33%Solid56 people
- 54%Emerging90 people
- 2%Unproven4 people
168 of the 311 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
18 of the 168 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 11%. 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.
52%Titles that rose122 of 233 classified people
- 52%Rose122 people
- 42%Stayed level97 people
- 6%Fell14 people
233 of the 311 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
- UC Berkeley14.6%
- Georgia Tech8.1%
- UC San Diego7.8%
- Cornell7.1%
- UC Davis6.2%
- UCLA5.2%
- Cal Poly SLO4.9%
- Stanford3.2%
The 8 most listed schools among the 309 people here with a school on file.
45 of the 309 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 25 list Georgia Tech and 24 list UC San Diego. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
41%have a public GitHub account on their profile
126 of the 310 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
69% of the people who have worked at Workday and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Workday
Everyone on the map
- 69%SF Bay Area213 · map 41%
- 9%New York27 · map 18%
- 7%Washington DC21 · map 13%
- 3%Denver9 · map 0.8%
- 3%Seattle8 · map 5%
- 2%Atlanta7 · map 1%
- 2%Los Angeles7 · map 5%
- 1.0%Portland3 · map 0.2%
- 5%Somewhere else15
310 of the 311 people who worked at Workday list a location, and every share here is over those 310.
Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while working at Workday: 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 Workday, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 311 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Workday: 120 are there now, 191 have moved on.
- Most leave for Meta: 15 people, 7% of recorded departures. Then Google and Apple.
- Most arrive from Microsoft: 6 people. Then eBay and AWS.
- Median tenure at Workday: 3y 3m, middle half 1y 7m to 5y.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Workday, 6% went to a founder title next, 13% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 33% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 78 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 169 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Development Engineer.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 45 of the 309 people here with one on file (14.6%). Then Georgia Tech (25).
- 69% of the 310 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.
- 41% of the 310 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 122 rose, 97 stayed level, 14 fell, out of the 233 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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