After X, The Moonshot Factory
- 29%Joined a startup11
- 18%Joined a big company7
- 53%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave X, The Moonshot Factory most often go to Google, Makani and Everyday Robots. Of them, 29% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 1y 1m
Not X, The Moonshot Factory's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 48 people on a map of 67,181, No. 505 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 480.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 817% of the people here
- Moved on
- 4083% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 1mmiddle half 7m to 1y 11m
Put X, The Moonshot Factory side by side with another employer.
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Google. Most leave for Google (18% of recorded departures).
16 of 37 recorded arrivals shown, 21 more from 19 other companies14 of 40 recorded departures shown, 26 more to 25 other companies
How long people stay
48%<1y
29%1-2y
12%2-4y
10%4-7y
2%7y+
42 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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<3<318
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2014 to 2026: 50 joined, 42 left.
Caliber
87mediantop 10%96
0Eng Scorer caliber, 33 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer14
- Software Engineer Intern5
- AI Resident4
- Senior Software Engineer3
4 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 4% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 15%Exceptional5 people
- 45%Strong15 people
- 21%Solid7 people
- 18%Emerging6 people
33 of the 48 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
20 of the 33 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 61%. 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.
41%Titles that rose13 of 32 classified people
- 41%Rose13 people
- 59%Stayed level or fell19 people
32 of the 48 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. A direction holding fewer than 3 people is printed with the one next to it, because that few is a person rather than a pattern.
Where they studied
- Stanford25.0%
- MIT12.5%
- UC Berkeley12.5%
- Cambridge6.3%
- Harvard6.3%
The 5 most listed schools among the 48 people here with a school on file.
12 of the 48 people here with a school on file list Stanford, 6 list MIT and 6 list UC Berkeley. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
60%have a public GitHub account on their profile
29 of the 48 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
81% of the people who have worked at X, The Moonshot Factory and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
X, The Moonshot Factory
Everyone on the map
- 81%SF Bay Area39 · map 41%
- 6%New York3 · map 18%
- 13%Somewhere else6
All 48 people who worked at X, The Moonshot Factory 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 X, The Moonshot Factory: 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 X, The Moonshot Factory, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 48 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at X, The Moonshot Factory: 8 are there now, 40 have moved on.
- Most leave for Google: 7 people, 18% of recorded departures. Then Makani and Everyday Robots.
- Most arrive from Google: 11 people. Then Makani.
- Median tenure at X, The Moonshot Factory: 1y 1m, middle half 7m to 1y 11m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after X, The Moonshot Factory, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 29% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 18% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 87 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 33 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: Stanford, listed by 12 of the 48 people here with one on file (25.0%). Then MIT (6).
- 81% of the 48 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.
- 60% of the 48 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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