After IMC Trading
- 11%Joined a startup4
- 23%Joined a big company8
- 66%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave IMC Trading most often go to Citadel Securities, Five Rings and Jane Street. 11% go small. Median stay 1y 2m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not IMC Trading's headcount: 42 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 235 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 420.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 717% of the people here
- Moved on
- 3583% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 2mmiddle half 5m to 3y
Put IMC Trading 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 Meta. Most leave for Citadel Securities (11% of recorded departures).
15 of 38 recorded arrivals shown, 23 more from 21 other companies10 of 36 recorded departures shown, 26 more to 21 other companies
How long people stay
42%<1y
17%1-2y
25%2-4y
17%4-7y
0%7y+
24 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
1112
1013
0114
0015
0016
3317
4218
4219
1120
5221
121022
6823
4624
3425
3026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 47 joined, 40 left.
Caliber
84mediantop 10%89
0Eng Scorer caliber, 42 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer18
- Software Engineer Intern17
- Garden Leave4
- Software Development Intern4
- Quantitative Trader3
5 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 14% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 36%Exceptional or strong15 people
- 48%Solid20 people
- 17%Emerging or unproven7 people
42 of the 42 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 15 of the 42 people here with a read sit in them, 36%. 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.
57%Titles that rose17 of 30 classified people
- 57%Rose17 people
- 43%Stayed level13 people
30 of the 42 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 30 of the 42 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
- UIUC14.3%
- Carnegie Mellon11.9%
- UC Berkeley11.9%
- University of Waterloo11.9%
The 4 most listed schools among the 42 people here with a school on file.
Of the 42 people here with a school on file, 6 list UIUC, 5 list Carnegie Mellon and 5 list UC Berkeley. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
24%have a public GitHub account on their profile
10 of the 42 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
69% of the people who have worked at IMC Trading and list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map.
IMC Trading
Everyone on the map
- 69%New York29 · map 33%
- 31%SF Bay Area13 · map 47%
All 42 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 they worked at IMC Trading: 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 IMC Trading, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 42 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at IMC Trading: 7 are there now and 35 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after IMC Trading is Citadel Securities (4 people, 11% of recorded departures), followed by Five Rings and Jane Street.
- The most common previous employer before IMC Trading is Meta (5 people), followed by Amazon and Google.
- The median tenure at IMC Trading is 1y 2m (middle half 5m to 3y).
- Of those who moved on from IMC Trading, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 11% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 23% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at IMC Trading is 84 on the 0 to 99 scale (42 scored).
- The most common title held at IMC Trading is Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Of the 42 people here with a school on file, 6 list UIUC (14.3%), then Carnegie Mellon (5). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 69% of the 42 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.
- 24% of the 42 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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