After Ford Motor
- 3%Founded something5
- 11%Joined a startup19
- 42%Joined a big company71
- 44%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Ford Motor most often go to Google, Apple and Amazon. Of them, 11% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 1y 6m
Not Ford Motor's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 216 people on a map of 67,181, No. 107 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 2160.3% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 3918% of the people here
- Moved on
- 17782% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 6mmiddle half 8m to 3y 1m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from GM. Most leave for Google (5% of recorded departures).
3%4GM
Google105%
Apple74%
Amazon53%
AWS53%
Meta42%Ford Motor Company of…32%
Latitude AI32%Michigan Computer…32%
Palantir32%
Amazon53%AWS53%4 of 147 recorded arrivals shown, 143 more from 139 other companies43 of 184 recorded departures shown, 141 more to 131 other companies
How long people stay
34%<1y
24%1-2y
28%2-4y
10%4-7y
3%7y+
172 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
4312
6413
6614
7415
171516
20817
301918
302519
171920
202321
283122
121023
16924
151625
5426
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 233 joined, 196 left.
Caliber
78mediantop 10%86
0Eng Scorer caliber, 69 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer29
- Software Engineer Intern19
- Senior Software Engineer14
- Machine Learning Engineer11
- Data Scientist9
- Product Development Intern5
- Software Developer5
- Full Stack Software Engineer4
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 31% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 9%Strong6 people
- 25%Solid17 people
- 51%Emerging35 people
- 15%Unproven10 people
68 of the 216 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
6 of the 68 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 9%. 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.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
30%Titles that rose49 of 161 classified people
- 30%Rose49 people
- 61%Stayed level99 people
- 8%Fell13 people
161 of the 216 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
- University of Michigan15.6%
- Georgia Tech15.1%
- Stanford6.1%
- Carnegie Mellon4.7%
- Michigan State4.3%
- Purdue3.8%
- UC Berkeley3.3%
- UIUC3.3%
The 8 most listed schools among the 212 people here with a school on file.
33 of the 212 people here with a school on file list University of Michigan, 32 list Georgia Tech and 13 list Stanford. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
22%have a public GitHub account on their profile
48 of the 215 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
35% of the people who have worked at Ford Motor and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Ford Motor
Everyone on the map
- 35%SF Bay Area75 · map 41%
- 12%New York26 · map 18%
- 10%Detroit21
- 8%Washington DC18 · map 13%
- 5%Seattle10 · map 5%
- 3%Chicago6 · map 0.6%
- 3%Dallas-Fort Worth6 · map 0.9%
- 3%Los Angeles6 · map 5%
- 22%Somewhere else47
215 of the 216 people who worked at Ford Motor list a location, and every share here is over those 215.
Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while working at Ford Motor: 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 Ford Motor, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 216 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Ford Motor: 39 are there now, 177 have moved on.
- Most leave for Google: 10 people, 5% of recorded departures. Then Apple and Amazon.
- Most arrive from GM: 4 people.
- Median tenure at Ford Motor: 1y 6m, middle half 8m to 3y 1m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Ford Motor, 3% went to a founder title next, 11% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 42% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 78 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 69 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: University of Michigan, listed by 33 of the 212 people here with one on file (15.6%). Then Georgia Tech (32).
- 35% of the 215 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.
- 22% of the 215 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 49 rose, 99 stayed level, 13 fell, out of the 161 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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