After DRW
- 12%Joined a startup3
- 20%Joined a big company5
- 68%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave DRW most often go to Palantir Technologies. 12% go small. Median stay 3y 4m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not DRW's headcount: 37 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 267 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 370.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 1232% of the people here
- Moved on
- 2568% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 3y 4mmiddle half 2y 3m to 4y 1m
Put DRW 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 Palantir Technologies (11% of recorded departures).
3 of 33 recorded arrivals shown, 30 more from 26 other companies3 of 27 recorded departures shown, 24 more to 21 other companies
How long people stay
9%<1y
14%1-2y
41%2-4y
32%4-7y
5%7y+
22 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
1012
0113
0114
0015
1016
1317
3218
1019
3220
7721
7222
9423
5424
0225
1126
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 39 joined, 29 left.
Caliber
83mediantop 10%88
0Eng Scorer caliber, 37 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer Intern11
- Software Engineer7
- Senior Software Engineer5
- Software Developer4
- Software Development Intern4
5 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 11% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 16%Exceptional or strong6 people
- 73%Solid27 people
- 11%Emerging4 people
37 of the 37 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 6 of the 37 people here with a read sit in them, 16%. 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.
54%Titles that rose14 of 26 classified people
- 54%Rose14 people
- 46%Stayed level12 people
26 of the 37 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 26 of the 37 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
- UIUC21.6%
- University of Michigan8.1%
- University of Waterloo8.1%
- UT Austin8.1%
The 4 most listed schools among the 37 people here with a school on file.
Of the 37 people here with a school on file, 8 list UIUC, 3 list University of Michigan and 3 list University of Waterloo. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
30%have a public GitHub account on their profile
11 of the 37 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
62% of the people who have worked at DRW and list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map.
DRW
Everyone on the map
- 62%New York23 · map 33%
- 27%SF Bay Area10 · map 47%
- 11%Somewhere else4
All 37 people who worked at DRW 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 DRW: 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 DRW, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 37 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at DRW: 12 are there now and 25 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after DRW is Palantir Technologies (3 people, 11% of recorded departures).
- The most common previous employer before DRW is Google (3 people).
- The median tenure at DRW is 3y 4m (middle half 2y 3m to 4y 1m).
- Of those who moved on from DRW, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 12% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 20% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at DRW is 83 on the 0 to 99 scale (37 scored).
- The most common title held at DRW is Software Engineer Intern, then Software Engineer.
- Of the 37 people here with a school on file, 8 list UIUC (21.6%), then University of Michigan (3). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 62% of the 37 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.
- 30% of the 37 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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