After Waymo
- 4%Founded something6
- 15%Joined a startup21
- 37%Joined a big company52
- 43%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Waymo most often go to Google, Meta and Cruise. Of them, 4% found something next and 15% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 5m
Not Waymo's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 435 people on a map of 67,181, No. 46 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 4350.6% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 28966% of the people here
- Moved on
- 14634% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 5mmiddle half 1y 1m to 4y 7m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Google. Most leave for Google (16% of recorded departures).
216 of 409 recorded arrivals shown, 193 more from 149 other companies80 of 143 recorded departures shown, 63 more to 57 other companies
How long people stay
21%<1y
24%1-2y
21%2-4y
28%4-7y
6%7y+
424 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
5015
5<316
14<317
26418
31719
681820
651821
552522
264223
293224
832025
54426
joined left2026 is a partial year
2015 to 2026: 461 joined, 173 left.
Caliber
84mediantop 10%94
0Eng Scorer caliber, 185 scored99
there now 84 moved on 84. Current staff and alumni score about the same.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer176
- Senior Software Engineer106
- Staff Software Engineer68
- Machine Learning Engineer20
- Software Engineer Intern20
- Senior Staff Software Engineer13
- Research Scientist7
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer7
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 4%Exceptional8 people
- 32%Strong60 people
- 38%Solid71 people
- 21%Emerging38 people
- 4%Unproven8 people
185 of the 435 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
68 of the 185 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 37%. 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.
53%Titles that rose99 of 186 classified people
- 53%Rose99 people
- 42%Stayed level78 people
- 5%Fell9 people
186 of the 435 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
- Stanford16.6%
- UC Berkeley15.6%
- Carnegie Mellon10.8%
- MIT5.8%
- Georgia Tech4.8%
- UIUC4.6%
- University of Michigan4.1%
- UCLA3.9%
The 8 most listed schools among the 435 people here with a school on file.
72 of the 435 people here with a school on file list Stanford, 68 list UC Berkeley and 47 list Carnegie Mellon. 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
178 of the 435 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
89% of the people who have worked at Waymo and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Waymo
Everyone on the map
- 89%SF Bay Area385 · map 41%
- 5%New York22 · map 18%
- 2%Seattle7 · map 5%
- 2%Washington DC7 · map 13%
- 3%Somewhere else14
All 435 people who worked at Waymo 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 Waymo: 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 Waymo, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 435 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Waymo: 289 are there now, 146 have moved on.
- Most leave for Google: 23 people, 16% of recorded departures. Then Meta and Cruise.
- Most arrive from Google: 126 people. Then Cruise and Meta.
- Median tenure at Waymo: 2y 5m, middle half 1y 1m to 4y 7m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Waymo, 4% went to a founder title next, 15% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 37% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 84 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 185 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer.
- Top school: Stanford, listed by 72 of the 435 people here with one on file (16.6%). Then UC Berkeley (68).
- 89% of the 435 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 435 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 99 rose, 78 stayed level, 9 fell, out of the 186 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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