After The D. E. Shaw Group
- 13%Joined a startup8
- 22%Joined a big company13
- 65%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave The D. E. Shaw Group most often go to Google and Meta. Of them, 13% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 1y 5m
Not The D. E. Shaw Group's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 89 people on a map of 67,181, No. 267 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 890.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 2528% of the people here
- Moved on
- 6472% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 5mmiddle half 7m to 3y 2m
Put The D. E. Shaw Group side by side with another employer.
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Google. Most leave for Google (16% of recorded departures).
16 of 82 recorded arrivals shown, 66 more from 61 other companies13 of 61 recorded departures shown, 48 more to 43 other companies
How long people stay
31%<1y
24%1-2y
31%2-4y
11%4-7y
2%7y+
54 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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4<313
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 93 joined, 69 left.
Caliber
84mediantop 10%95
0Eng Scorer caliber, 47 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer19
- Software Developer10
- Software Engineer Intern7
- Member Technical4
- D.e Shaw Latitude Fellow3
- Latitude Fellow3
- Quantitative Analyst Intern3
- Quantitative Developer Intern3
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 15% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 9%Exceptional4 people
- 26%Strong12 people
- 43%Solid20 people
- 23%Emerging or unproven11 people
47 of the 89 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
16 of the 47 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 34%. 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.
61%Titles that rose20 of 33 classified people
- 61%Rose20 people
- 24%Stayed level8 people
- 15%Fell5 people
33 of the 89 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
- MIT16.9%
- UC Berkeley14.6%
- Stanford12.4%
- Carnegie Mellon11.2%
- Columbia7.9%
- Princeton7.9%
- Harvard6.7%
- Howard University5.6%
The 8 most listed schools among the 89 people here with a school on file.
15 of the 89 people here with a school on file list MIT, 13 list UC Berkeley and 11 list Stanford. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
36%have a public GitHub account on their profile
32 of the 89 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
44% of the people who have worked at The D. E. Shaw Group and list a location live in New York today, against 18% of everyone on the map.
The D. E. Shaw Group
Everyone on the map
- 44%New York39 · map 18%
- 36%SF Bay Area32 · map 41%
- 9%Washington DC8 · map 13%
- 4%Boston4 · map 2%
- 7%Somewhere else6
All 89 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 working at The D. E. Shaw Group: 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 The D. E. Shaw Group, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 89 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at The D. E. Shaw Group: 25 are there now, 64 have moved on.
- Most leave for Google: 10 people, 16% of recorded departures. Then Meta.
- Most arrive from Google: 10 people. Then Jane Street and Meta.
- Median tenure at The D. E. Shaw Group: 1y 5m, middle half 7m to 3y 2m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after The D. E. Shaw Group, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 13% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 22% 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 Developer.
- Top school: MIT, listed by 15 of the 89 people here with one on file (16.9%). Then UC Berkeley (13).
- 44% of the 89 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.
- 36% of the 89 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 20 rose, 8 stayed level, 5 fell, out of the 33 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder before and after.
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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