After Zoox
- 10%Founded something7
- 14%Joined a startup10
- 31%Joined a big company22
- 45%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Zoox most often go to Google, Waymo and Applied Intuition. Of them, 10% found something next and 14% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 7m
Not Zoox's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 180 people on a map of 67,181, No. 132 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1800.3% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 10961% of the people here
- Moved on
- 7139% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 7mmiddle half 1y 5m to 4y
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Google. Most leave for Google (8% of recorded departures).
49 of 177 recorded arrivals shown, 128 more from 117 other companies23 of 71 recorded departures shown, 48 more to 43 other companies
How long people stay
16%<1y
23%1-2y
36%2-4y
23%4-7y
3%7y+
173 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2015 to 2026: 194 joined, 85 left.
Caliber
83mediantop 10%88
0Eng Scorer caliber, 94 scored99
there now 83 moved on 84. Current staff and alumni score about the same.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer98
- Senior Software Engineer25
- Software Engineer Intern14
- Staff Software Engineer9
- Machine Learning Engineer8
- Engineering Manager3
- Research Engineer3
7 most common titles, by people who held them.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 20%Exceptional or strong19 people
- 45%Solid42 people
- 35%Emerging or unproven33 people
94 of the 180 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
19 of the 94 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 20%. 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.
49%Titles that rose41 of 84 classified people
- 49%Rose41 people
- 51%Stayed level or fell43 people
84 of the 180 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
- Stanford16.2%
- UC Berkeley10.6%
- Georgia Tech8.9%
- UC San Diego5.6%
- MIT5.0%
- UCLA3.9%
- UIUC3.9%
- University of Michigan3.9%
The 8 most listed schools among the 179 people here with a school on file.
29 of the 179 people here with a school on file list Stanford, 19 list UC Berkeley and 16 list Georgia Tech. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
39%have a public GitHub account on their profile
71 of the 180 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 Zoox and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Zoox
Everyone on the map
- 89%SF Bay Area160 · map 41%
- 3%Seattle6 · map 5%
- 2%Los Angeles4 · map 5%
- 2%New York4 · map 18%
- 3%Somewhere else6
All 180 people who worked at Zoox 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 Zoox: 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 Zoox, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 180 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Zoox: 109 are there now, 71 have moved on.
- Most leave for Google: 6 people, 8% of recorded departures. Then Waymo and Applied Intuition.
- Most arrive from Google: 13 people. Then Meta and SpaceX.
- Median tenure at Zoox: 2y 7m, middle half 1y 5m to 4y.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Zoox, 10% went to a founder title next, 14% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 31% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 83 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 94 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer.
- Top school: Stanford, listed by 29 of the 179 people here with one on file (16.2%). Then UC Berkeley (19).
- 89% of the 180 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.
- 39% of the 180 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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