After Optiver
- 15%Joined a startup8
- 25%Joined a big company13
- 60%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Optiver most often go to Meta, OpenAI and Google. Of them, 15% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y
Not Optiver's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 75 people on a map of 67,181, No. 310 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 750.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 2027% of the people here
- Moved on
- 5573% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2ymiddle half 6m to 2y 11m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Meta. Most leave for Meta (11% of recorded departures).
21 of 76 recorded arrivals shown, 55 more from 53 other companies16 of 54 recorded departures shown, 38 more to 34 other companies
How long people stay
30%<1y
16%1-2y
47%2-4y
7%4-7y
0%7y+
43 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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4318
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141123
191224
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 88 joined, 68 left.
Caliber
83mediantop 10%89
0Eng Scorer caliber, 51 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer31
- Software Engineer Intern24
- Software Development Intern5
- Quantitative Trader4
4 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.
- 22%Strong11 people
- 43%Solid22 people
- 24%Emerging12 people
- 12%Unproven6 people
51 of the 75 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
11 of the 51 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 22%. 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.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
46%Titles that rose23 of 50 classified people
- 46%Rose23 people
- 54%Stayed level27 people
50 of the 75 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 Mellon12.0%
- Georgia Tech12.0%
- UC Berkeley10.7%
- MIT9.3%
- Stanford6.7%
- University of Michigan6.7%
- UT Austin6.7%
- Columbia4.0%
The 8 most listed schools among the 75 people here with a school on file.
9 of the 75 people here with a school on file list Carnegie Mellon, 9 list Georgia Tech and 8 list UC Berkeley. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
16%have a public GitHub account on their profile
12 of the 75 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
47% of the people who have worked at Optiver and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Optiver
Everyone on the map
- 47%SF Bay Area35 · map 41%
- 35%New York26 · map 18%
- 7%Chicago5 · map 0.6%
- 4%Washington DC3 · map 13%
- 8%Somewhere else6
All 75 people who worked at Optiver 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 Optiver: 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 Optiver, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 75 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Optiver: 20 are there now, 55 have moved on.
- Most leave for Meta: 6 people, 11% of recorded departures. Then OpenAI and Google.
- Most arrive from Meta: 7 people. Then Amazon and Bloomberg.
- Median tenure at Optiver: 2y, middle half 6m to 2y 11m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Optiver, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 15% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 25% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 83 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 51 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: Carnegie Mellon, listed by 9 of the 75 people here with one on file (12.0%). Then Georgia Tech (9).
- 47% of the 75 people here who list a location live in SF Bay Area today, against 41% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 16% of the 75 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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