After Waymo
- 19%Joined a startup9
- 19%Joined a big company9
- 63%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Waymo most often go to Meta, Google and Applied Intuition. 19% go small. Median stay 2y 10m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Waymo's headcount: 142 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 65 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1420.5% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 9567% of the people here
- Moved on
- 4733% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 10mmiddle half 11m to 5y
Put Waymo 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 arrive from Google. Most leave for Meta (10% of recorded departures).
59 of 133 recorded arrivals shown, 74 more from 62 other companies15 of 48 recorded departures shown, 33 more to 29 other companies
How long people stay
25%<1y
20%1-2y
21%2-4y
29%4-7y
5%7y+
138 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
0012
0013
0014
1015
2116
4017
11118
9419
15520
28721
22922
111523
7824
23225
15226
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 148 joined, 54 left.
Caliber
85mediantop 10%94
0Eng Scorer caliber, 142 scored99
there now 85 moved on 85. Current staff and alumni score about the same.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer75
- Senior Software Engineer27
- Staff Software Engineer16
- Software Engineer Intern9
- Systems Test Engineer3
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.
- 5%Exceptional7 people
- 35%Strong50 people
- 45%Solid64 people
- 15%Emerging or unproven21 people
142 of the 142 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 57 of the 142 people here with a read sit in them, 40%. 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.
32%Titles that rose21 of 66 classified people
- 32%Rose21 people
- 68%Stayed level or fell45 people
66 of the 142 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 66 of the 142 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. A direction 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.
Where they studied
- UC Berkeley16.2%
- Stanford14.8%
- Carnegie Mellon9.2%
- MIT6.3%
- UC Davis4.2%
- Caltech3.5%
- Cornell3.5%
- UCLA3.5%
The 8 most listed schools among the 142 people here with a school on file.
Of the 142 people here with a school on file, 23 list UC Berkeley, 21 list Stanford and 13 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
42%have a public GitHub account on their profile
59 of the 142 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
92% of the people who have worked at Waymo and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Waymo
Everyone on the map
- 92%SF Bay Area130 · map 47%
- 6%New York9 · map 33%
- 2%Somewhere else3
All 142 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 they worked at Waymo: 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 Waymo, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 142 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Waymo: 95 are there now and 47 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Waymo is Meta (5 people, 10% of recorded departures), followed by Google and Applied Intuition.
- The most common previous employer before Waymo is Google (32 people), followed by Cruise and Applied Intuition.
- The median tenure at Waymo is 2y 10m (middle half 11m to 5y).
- Of those who moved on from Waymo, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 19% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 19% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Waymo is 85 on the 0 to 99 scale (142 scored).
- The most common title held at Waymo is Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer.
- Of the 142 people here with a school on file, 23 list UC Berkeley (16.2%), then Stanford (21). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 92% of the 142 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.
- 42% of the 142 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
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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