After Ford Motor Company
- 7%Founded something3
- 15%Joined a startup6
- 22%Joined a big company9
- 56%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Ford Motor Company most often go to Amazon, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Palantir Technologies. 7% found something next. 15% go small. Median stay 1y 3m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Ford Motor Company's headcount: 55 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 168 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 550.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 1120% of the people here
- Moved on
- 4480% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 3mmiddle half 9m to 3y 3m
Put Ford Motor Company 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 leave for Amazon (9% of recorded departures).
33 recorded arrivals from 32 companies, none more than 2 from any one of them
Amazon49%
Amazon Web Services37%0 of 33 recorded arrivals shown, 33 more from 32 other companies10 of 44 recorded departures shown, 34 more to 34 other companies
How long people stay
37%<1y
26%1-2y
23%2-4y
9%4-7y
6%7y+
35 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
1112
1113
3214
4215
3516
4117
3318
141119
4620
5521
7522
4323
2224
4125
0126
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 59 joined, 49 left.
Caliber
79mediantop 10%87
0Eng Scorer caliber, 55 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer Intern10
- Software Engineer7
- Product Development Intern4
- Full Stack Engineer3
- Machine Learning Engineer3
- Summer Intern3
6 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 38% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 9%Strong5 people
- 30%Solid16 people
- 61%Emerging or unproven33 people
54 of the 55 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 5 of the 54 people here with a read sit in them, 9%. 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.
27%Titles that rose12 of 44 classified people
- 27%Rose12 people
- 66%Stayed level29 people
- 7%Fell3 people
44 of the 55 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 44 of the 55 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.
Where they studied
- University of Michigan22.2%
- Georgia Tech11.1%
- Carnegie Mellon7.4%
- Michigan State7.4%
- University of Waterloo7.4%
- Stanford5.6%
- UC Berkeley5.6%
The 7 most listed schools among the 54 people here with a school on file.
Of the 54 people here with a school on file, 12 list University of Michigan, 6 list Georgia Tech and 4 list Carnegie Mellon. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
24%have a public GitHub account on their profile
13 of the 54 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
46% of the people who have worked at Ford Motor Company and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Ford Motor Company
Everyone on the map
- 46%SF Bay Area25 · map 47%
- 26%New York14 · map 33%
- 7%Los Angeles4 · map 6%
- 7%Washington DC4 · map 7%
- 13%Somewhere else7
54 of the 55 people who worked at Ford Motor Company list a location, and every share here is over those 54.
Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while they worked at Ford Motor Company: 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 Ford Motor Company, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 55 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Ford Motor Company: 11 are there now and 44 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Ford Motor Company is Amazon (4 people, 9% of recorded departures), followed by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Palantir Technologies.
- The median tenure at Ford Motor Company is 1y 3m (middle half 9m to 3y 3m).
- Of those who moved on from Ford Motor Company, 7% went on to a founder title, 15% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 22% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Ford Motor Company is 79 on the 0 to 99 scale (55 scored).
- The most common title held at Ford Motor Company is Software Engineer Intern, then Software Engineer.
- Of the 54 people here with a school on file, 12 list University of Michigan (22.2%), then Georgia Tech (6). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 46% of the 54 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.
- 24% of the 54 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
- Of the 44 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 12 rose, 29 stayed level and 3 fell.
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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