Ranking 30 companies by 50,000 engineer job changes: Thinking Machines, Reflection, Anthropic top the list
deedydas · x · 2026-11-06
deedy ranked the top 30 startups and big tech companies based on 50,000 engineer job changes over the past 3 years, weighting inflows higher when the source company itself ranks well.
- Top of the list: Thinking Machines, Reflection, Anthropic, OpenAI, Periodic Labs, Prometheus, Recursive, Core Automation, Sierra, and Harvey
- Would-be rank view: Cursor and xAI are clear leaders, followed by Figma, Netflix, Waymo, NVIDIA, and Google DeepMind; Amazon, Oracle, and Microsoft sit at the bottom
- The data shows top engineers flowing from big tech into AI startups and frontier labs
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