After Citadel Securities
- 12%Joined a startup7
- 19%Joined a big company11
- 69%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Citadel Securities most often go to Jane Street, Meta and Citadel. 12% go small. Median stay 2y 6m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Citadel Securities's headcount: 98 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 98 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 980.4% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 4647% of the people here
- Moved on
- 5253% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 6mmiddle half 1y 1m to 3y 11m
Put Citadel Securities 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 Jane Street (11% of recorded departures).
44 of 102 recorded arrivals shown, 58 more from 46 other companies25 of 62 recorded departures shown, 37 more to 29 other companies
How long people stay
19%<1y
19%1-2y
44%2-4y
16%4-7y
1%7y+
73 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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0013
0014
0015
0016
3217
9718
10819
14820
16921
332022
171423
10724
9325
3026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 124 joined, 78 left.
Caliber
87mediantop 10%96
0Eng Scorer caliber, 98 scored99
there now 86 moved on 93. The people who left score higher than the people still there.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer54
- Software Engineer Intern42
- Quantitative Developer3
- 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.
- 11%Exceptional11 people
- 53%Strong52 people
- 31%Solid30 people
- 5%Emerging or unproven5 people
98 of the 98 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 63 of the 98 people here with a read sit in them, 64%. 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.
31%Titles that rose20 of 64 classified people
- 31%Rose20 people
- 69%Stayed level or fell44 people
64 of the 98 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 64 of the 98 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
- University of Waterloo22.7%
- UC Berkeley12.4%
- Stanford10.3%
- Carnegie Mellon9.3%
- MIT7.2%
- Penn4.1%
- UBC4.1%
- University of Michigan4.1%
The 8 most listed schools among the 97 people here with a school on file.
Of the 97 people here with a school on file, 22 list University of Waterloo, 12 list UC Berkeley and 10 list Stanford. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
47%have a public GitHub account on their profile
46 of the 98 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
79% of the people who have worked at Citadel Securities and list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map.
Citadel Securities
Everyone on the map
- 79%New York77 · map 33%
- 19%SF Bay Area19 · map 47%
All 98 people who worked at Citadel Securities 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 Citadel Securities: 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 Citadel Securities, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 98 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Citadel Securities: 46 are there now and 52 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Citadel Securities is Jane Street (7 people, 11% of recorded departures), followed by Meta and Citadel.
- The most common previous employer before Citadel Securities is Google (7 people), followed by Meta and Bloomberg.
- The median tenure at Citadel Securities is 2y 6m (middle half 1y 1m to 3y 11m).
- Of those who moved on from Citadel Securities, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 12% 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 Citadel Securities is 87 on the 0 to 99 scale (98 scored).
- The most common title held at Citadel Securities is Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Of the 97 people here with a school on file, 22 list University of Waterloo (22.7%), then UC Berkeley (12). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 79% of the 98 people here who list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map. That is where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 47% of the 98 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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