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People who leave The D. E. Shaw Group most often go to a long tail of companies. Median stay 2y

These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not The D. E. Shaw Group's headcount: 42 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 239 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.

People on the map
420.2% of everyone on the map
There now
1843% of the people here
Moved on
2457% of the people here
Median tenure
2ymiddle half 8m to 3y 3m

Put The D. E. Shaw Group 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.

The D. E.Shaw Group41 in · 24 out

24 recorded departures to 22 companies, none more than 2 to any one of them

7Google3Meta
10 of 41 recorded arrivals shown, 31 more from 28 other companies0 of 24 recorded departures shown, 24 more to 22 other companies

After The D. E. Shaw Group

  • 100%Elsewhere

Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.

How long people stay

31%<1y
19%1-2y
35%2-4y
15%4-7y
0%7y+
2y median tenuremiddle half 8m to 3y 3m

26 stays with both a start and an end on the record.

Who comes and goes, by year

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joined left2026 is a partial year

2012 to 2026: 45 joined, 27 left.

Caliber

84mediantop 10%94
0Eng Scorer caliber, 42 scored99

Titles held here

  1. Software Developer9
  2. Software Engineer8
  3. Software Engineer Intern5

3 most common titles, by people who held them.

First job on the record for 10% of people here.

Behind the median

Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.

  • 36%Exceptional or strong15 people
  • 43%Solid18 people
  • 21%Emerging9 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.

Where they studied

  1. UC Berkeley19.1%
  2. Stanford11.9%
  3. Carnegie Mellon9.5%
  4. Columbia9.5%
  5. Harvard9.5%
  6. MIT9.5%
  7. Princeton7.1%

The 7 most listed schools among the 42 people here with a school on file.

Of the 42 people here with a school on file, 8 list UC Berkeley, 5 list Stanford and 4 list Carnegie Mellon. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.

Public work

one square is one in a hundred
38%have a public GitHub account on their profile

16 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

64% of the people who have worked at The D. E. Shaw Group and list a location live in New York today, against 33% of everyone on the map.

The D. E. Shaw Group
Everyone on the map
  • 64%New York27 · map 33%
  • 21%SF Bay Area9 · map 47%
  • 10%Washington DC4 · map 7%

All 42 people who worked at The D. E. Shaw Group 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 The D. E. Shaw Group: 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.

Key facts

  • 42 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at The D. E. Shaw Group: 18 are there now and 24 have moved on.
  • The most common previous employer before The D. E. Shaw Group is Google (7 people), followed by Meta.
  • The median tenure at The D. E. Shaw Group is 2y (middle half 8m to 3y 3m).
  • Of those who moved on from The D. E. Shaw Group, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, fewer than 3 joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and fewer than 3 joined a company with 10,000 or more.
  • The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at The D. E. Shaw Group is 84 on the 0 to 99 scale (42 scored).
  • The most common title held at The D. E. Shaw Group is Software Developer, then Software Engineer.
  • Of the 42 people here with a school on file, 8 list UC Berkeley (19.1%), then Stanford (5). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
  • 64% 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.
  • 38% 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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