After Zoox
- 15%Founded something5
- 12%Joined a startup4
- 24%Joined a big company8
- 50%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Zoox most often go to Waymo. 15% found something next. 12% go small. Median stay 3y 2m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Zoox's headcount: 83 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 118 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 830.3% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 5161% of the people here
- Moved on
- 3239% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 3y 2mmiddle half 2y 4m to 4y 7m
Put Zoox 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 SpaceX. Most leave for Waymo (9% of recorded departures).
How long people stay
10%<1y
14%1-2y
39%2-4y
34%4-7y
4%7y+
80 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
0012
0013
0014
1015
2016
5217
7718
10119
9820
19821
13522
12123
7324
5325
0126
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 90 joined, 39 left.
Caliber
83mediantop 10%88
0Eng Scorer caliber, 83 scored99
there now 83 moved on 85. The people who left score higher than the people still there.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer56
- Senior Software Engineer9
- Software Engineer Intern7
- Staff Software Engineer4
- Engineering Manager3
5 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.
- 22%Exceptional or strong18 people
- 47%Solid39 people
- 31%Emerging26 people
83 of the 83 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 18 of the 83 people here with a read sit in them, 22%. 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.
45%Titles that rose19 of 42 classified people
- 45%Rose19 people
- 55%Stayed level23 people
42 of the 83 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 42 of the 83 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.
Where they studied
- Stanford13.3%
- UC Berkeley10.8%
- UCLA6.0%
- University of Michigan6.0%
- Georgia Tech4.8%
- Johns Hopkins4.8%
- MIT3.6%
- UIUC3.6%
The 8 most listed schools among the 83 people here with a school on file.
Of the 83 people here with a school on file, 11 list Stanford, 9 list UC Berkeley and 5 list UCLA. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
39%have a public GitHub account on their profile
32 of the 83 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
90% of the people who have worked at Zoox and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Zoox
Everyone on the map
- 90%SF Bay Area75 · map 47%
- 5%New York4 · map 33%
- 5%Somewhere else4
All 83 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 they worked at Zoox: 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 Zoox, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 83 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Zoox: 51 are there now and 32 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Zoox is Waymo (3 people, 9% of recorded departures).
- The most common previous employer before Zoox is SpaceX (5 people), followed by Google and Meta.
- The median tenure at Zoox is 3y 2m (middle half 2y 4m to 4y 7m).
- Of those who moved on from Zoox, 15% went on to a founder title, 12% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 24% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Zoox is 83 on the 0 to 99 scale (83 scored).
- The most common title held at Zoox is Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer.
- Of the 83 people here with a school on file, 11 list Stanford (13.3%), then UC Berkeley (9). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 90% of the 83 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.
- 39% of the 83 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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