ZOE

Personalised nutrition science platform
Last updated:
January 23, 2026
Company details
HQ
HEADCOUNT
100-499
ORG TYPE
Startup
SECTOR
Healthcare & Life Sciences
About the company
ZOE is a personalised nutrition service that combines at-home testing with an app-based programme to help members understand how their bodies respond to food. ZOE grew out of large-scale health research and became widely known through the COVID Symptom Study app work during the pandemic. ZOE was founded by Jonathan Wolf and George Hadjigeorgiou, alongside Prof. Tim Spector of King’s College London, with Jonathan Wolf as CEO. Public company profiles list the founding year as 2017.
Locations and presence
ZOE is headquartered in London and has a US presence that has been publicly described as Boston-based. ZOE hires into UK and US time zones, with multiple roles advertised as remote-first or remote.
Palpable Score
62.7
/ 100
ZOE offers some real early-career doors through occasional assistant and associate roles plus a visible internship track, but ZOE does not look like a high-volume junior hirer. Hiring process signals are mixed, and public evidence about pay transparency and early-career progression is thin, which caps the overall score.
Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

14.0
/ 20
  • The company has advertised junior and entry-level roles such as PR & Communications Associate (entry and junior level) and Marketing Associate in Social Media.
  • ZOE has also advertised a Study Success Associate internship within the Nutrition Science Team, giving students a defined early-career entry point.
  • The company’s publicly visible engineering and science hiring is often senior-leaning, so early-career access looks present but not consistent across functions.

Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

12.0
/ 20
  • The company uses an ATS-style application flow that collects structured information such as salary expectations, notice period, and work authorisation, which signals basic process structure.
  • ZOE has candidate-reported interview loops ranging from simple two-stage conversations to multi-stage processes with live exercises and a presentation, depending on the role.
  • The company has candidate reports of being ghosted after interviews, which is a direct negative fairness signal even if other candidates describe responsive rejection emails.

Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

14.0
/ 20
  • The company’s Study Success Associate internship places a junior hire inside a research operations team working alongside ZOE scientists and Study Success Associates on active studies.
  • ZOE’s PR & Communications Associate role is framed as close day-to-day collaboration with PR & Communications Managers in both the UK and US, with work feeding into a global comms lead.
  • The company has strong science credibility around the work, but ZOE does not publish a clear early-career onboarding or mentoring framework in a way that a graduate can verify before applying.

Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

11.7
/ 20
  • The company’s job advertising often omits salary ranges, including roles that explicitly list stock options while leaving base pay blank.
  • ZOE’s application flow asks candidates for salary expectations, which shifts pay clarity onto applicants rather than setting an upfront range.
  • The company’s public employee feedback includes a mid-range compensation-and-benefits rating, which is better than many startups but not strong enough to offset missing salary transparency.

Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

11.0
/ 20
  • The company has a meaningful volume of employee reviews and a majority recommendation rate, but recent reviews also mention attrition and redundancy rounds, which weighs on early-career stability.
  • ZOE’s public profiles show an ongoing UK and US footprint, but LinkedIn-style public data does not give enough early-career promotion trails to score outcomes higher.
  • The company runs internships, yet ZOE does not publish conversion rates, time-to-promotion ranges, or 12–24 month retention for junior cohorts, so outcomes remain hard to verify.

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