After Optiver
- 10%Joined a startup3
- 14%Joined a big company4
- 76%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Optiver most often go to a long tail of companies. 10% go small. Median stay 2y
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Optiver's headcount: 41 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 244 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 410.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 1229% of the people here
- Moved on
- 2971% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2ymiddle half 11m to 3y
Put Optiver 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.
How long people stay
26%<1y
13%1-2y
57%2-4y
4%4-7y
0%7y+
23 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
0012
2213
0014
0015
2116
1117
1018
2219
1120
8721
121122
10723
7424
4225
0026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 50 joined, 38 left.
Caliber
83mediantop 10%90
0Eng Scorer caliber, 41 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer Intern18
- Software Engineer17
2 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 7% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 22%Strong9 people
- 51%Solid21 people
- 27%Emerging or unproven11 people
41 of the 41 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 9 of the 41 people here with a read sit in them, 22%. 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.
39%Titles that rose11 of 28 classified people
- 39%Rose11 people
- 61%Stayed level17 people
28 of the 41 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 28 of the 41 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
- Carnegie Mellon12.2%
- UC Berkeley12.2%
- UT Austin9.8%
- Columbia7.3%
- Georgia Tech7.3%
- University of Michigan7.3%
The 6 most listed schools among the 41 people here with a school on file.
Of the 41 people here with a school on file, 5 list Carnegie Mellon, 5 list UC Berkeley and 4 list UT Austin. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
15%have a public GitHub account on their profile
6 of the 41 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
49% of the people who have worked at Optiver and list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map.
Optiver
Everyone on the map
- 49%New York20 · map 33%
- 44%SF Bay Area18 · map 47%
- 7%Somewhere else3
All 41 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 they worked at Optiver: 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 Optiver, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 41 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Optiver: 12 are there now and 29 have moved on.
- The most common previous employer before Optiver is Meta (4 people), followed by Amazon.
- The median tenure at Optiver is 2y (middle half 11m to 3y).
- Of those who moved on from Optiver, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 10% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 14% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Optiver is 83 on the 0 to 99 scale (41 scored).
- The most common title held at Optiver is Software Engineer Intern, then Software Engineer.
- Of the 41 people here with a school on file, 5 list Carnegie Mellon (12.2%), then UC Berkeley (5). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 49% of the 41 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.
- 15% of the 41 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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