After Skydio
- 11%Founded something3
- 29%Joined a startup8
- 25%Joined a big company7
- 36%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Skydio most often go to a long tail of companies. Of them, 11% found something next and 29% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 6m
Not Skydio's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 68 people on a map of 67,181, No. 355 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 680.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 3754% of the people here
- Moved on
- 3146% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 6mmiddle half 1y 8m to 3y 10m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Google.
How long people stay
18%<1y
16%1-2y
42%2-4y
21%4-7y
3%7y+
62 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
3<316
3317
5<318
<3019
8320
7<321
9522
14323
16624
<31225
5026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2016 to 2026: 74 joined, 37 left.
Caliber
83mediantop 10%91
0Eng Scorer caliber, 46 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer23
- Senior Software Engineer16
- Autonomy Engineer7
- Staff Software Engineer7
- Engineering Manager3
5 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 3% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 22%Exceptional or strong10 people
- 41%Solid19 people
- 37%Emerging17 people
46 of the 68 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
10 of the 46 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 22%. 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.
60%Titles that rose24 of 40 classified people
- 60%Rose24 people
- 40%Stayed level16 people
40 of the 68 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 Berkeley13.2%
- MIT10.3%
- Stanford10.3%
- Carnegie Mellon7.4%
- Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering5.9%
- Caltech4.4%
- Georgia Tech4.4%
- UC Santa Cruz4.4%
The 8 most listed schools among the 68 people here with a school on file.
9 of the 68 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 7 list MIT and 7 list Stanford. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
35%have a public GitHub account on their profile
24 of the 68 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
82% of the people who have worked at Skydio and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Skydio
Everyone on the map
- 82%SF Bay Area56 · map 41%
- 4%Boston3 · map 2%
- 13%Somewhere else9
All 68 people who worked at Skydio list a location, and every share here is over them.
Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while working at Skydio: 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 Skydio, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 68 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Skydio: 37 are there now, 31 have moved on.
- Most arrive from Google: 6 people. Then Meta.
- Median tenure at Skydio: 2y 6m, middle half 1y 8m to 3y 10m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Skydio, 11% went to a founder title next, 29% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 25% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 83 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 46 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 9 of the 68 people here with one on file (13.2%). Then MIT (7).
- 82% of the 68 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.
- 35% of the 68 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
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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