After IMC Trading
- 13%Joined a startup8
- 29%Joined a big company18
- 58%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave IMC Trading most often go to Citadel Securities, Google and Jane Street. Of them, 13% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 1y 3m
Not IMC Trading's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 80 people on a map of 67,181, No. 293 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 800.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 1620% of the people here
- Moved on
- 6480% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 3mmiddle half 5m to 2y 7m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Meta. Most leave for Citadel Securities (8% of recorded departures).
24 of 78 recorded arrivals shown, 54 more from 48 other companies22 of 65 recorded departures shown, 43 more to 35 other companies
How long people stay
44%<1y
23%1-2y
21%2-4y
13%4-7y
0%7y+
48 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
3312
<3013
0<314
<3<315
0016
5417
5318
6319
5520
10621
181522
161823
111124
7725
6<326
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 94 joined, 78 left.
Caliber
84mediantop 10%90
0Eng Scorer caliber, 47 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer34
- Software Engineer Intern29
- Software Development Intern5
- Garden Leave4
- Quantitative Trader4
- Non-Compete Period3
- Quantitative Trader Intern3
7 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 9% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 36%Exceptional or strong17 people
- 45%Solid21 people
- 19%Emerging or unproven9 people
47 of the 80 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
17 of the 47 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 36%. 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 rose26 of 53 classified people
- 49%Rose26 people
- 51%Stayed level27 people
53 of the 80 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.
Where they studied
- Carnegie Mellon15.0%
- UC Berkeley12.5%
- UIUC11.3%
- MIT7.5%
- University of Waterloo7.5%
- Georgia Tech6.3%
- Harvard3.8%
- Penn3.8%
The 8 most listed schools among the 80 people here with a school on file.
12 of the 80 people here with a school on file list Carnegie Mellon, 10 list UC Berkeley and 9 list UIUC. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
21%have a public GitHub account on their profile
17 of the 80 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
46% of the people who have worked at IMC Trading and list a location live in New York today, against 18% of everyone on the map.
IMC Trading
Everyone on the map
- 46%New York37 · map 18%
- 36%SF Bay Area29 · map 41%
- 9%Chicago7 · map 0.6%
- 5%Boston4 · map 2%
- 4%Somewhere else3
All 80 people who worked at IMC Trading 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 IMC Trading: 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 IMC Trading, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 80 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at IMC Trading: 16 are there now, 64 have moved on.
- Most leave for Citadel Securities: 5 people, 8% of recorded departures. Then Google and Jane Street.
- Most arrive from Meta: 9 people. Then Amazon and Google.
- Median tenure at IMC Trading: 1y 3m, middle half 5m to 2y 7m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after IMC Trading, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 13% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 29% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 84 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 47 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: Carnegie Mellon, listed by 12 of the 80 people here with one on file (15.0%). Then UC Berkeley (10).
- 46% of the 80 people here who list a location live in New York today, against 18% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 21% of the 80 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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