Where do the GSDs go?

When you hear people talking about jobs at London-based digibank Revolut, it’s often less about what you can do at Revolut and more about what you can do next if you have Revolut on your CV. You’re “there for a good time, not long” if your idea of ​​a good time is being one of Revolut’s hard-working self-described GSDs (Get S*** Done).

But if that’s the case, what happens when the shit is done and the party is over? Which firms are interested in hiring Revolut alumni and where do Revolut GSDs go next? This is a look at some of Revolut’s exiters in recent months and the common trends in their new destinations.

Senior employees stick to stealth startups

Revolut is a youth game. Junior and newly graduated employees are trusted with responsibilities that are far greater than their peers elsewhere. Senior Revolut people who joined as managers of their department therefore look to maintain a stronger sense of seniority and ownership by occupying senior positions in startups.

Some of Revolut’s biggest recent leavers might want to team up for something new. The Block, reports that former COO Adriana Restrepo has joined former head of crypto Jean Meyer in a startup crypto venture.

They may be carrying a number of other ex-revolutionaries who are currently in stealth mode. They include former head of technology Mario Eguiluz Alebicto who had left Revolut 6 months earlier for digital asset platform Ledger, and former head of core payments Aaron Beck. Neither responded to a request for comment.

Leaving for other senior roles in startups include senior crypto engineer Fedor Chmilev, formerly Krakow-based, who now serves as CTO of a London startup. Ulaş Türkmen, a former senior software engineer at Revolut, co-founded logistics technology firm Senvo in Berlin in February.

Hedge funds and HFT firms do not want Revolut engineers

Revolut’s engineers are known for doing a good job and having an even greater work ethic. With that kind of hustle, you might assume a logical destination for them would be the highly demanding worlds of hedge funds and high-frequency trading firms…the truth is far from it.

Citadel, Jane Street and Balyasny only appear to employ one former Revolut engineer each. Likewise for Hudson River Trading in the HFT area. European-focused firms like Optiver don’t seem to hire them either.

Why is it like that? These companies have a much greater emphasis on artificial intelligence, data science and quantitative analysis. It’s kind of ironic because…

FAANG loves Revolut… ❤️

There are a significant number of Revolut engineers working in the major technology companies today. You can see them across most of the major firms.

AWS, for example, hired senior java developer Ilya Mezhov in December. Or take the engineers Sergey Razamov and Sami Gerges who joined Microsoft a few months earlier.

…But London fintechs love them more ❤️❤️❤️

Perhaps the most natural destination for someone working in a London fintech is another London fintech. Many of the other major players in that ecosystem seem to value Revolut alumni highly.

The two main tenants of former Revolut employees are Monzo and Checkout.com. We’ve previously written about Monzo’s big Revolut hires, but Checkout.com matches them step by step. Checkout’s recruits include senior Revolut director Ed Simmons and former GSD product experts, including Nikhil Chandrashekhar in January.

Revolut’s product staff in particular seem to be hot on rival fintechs. For example, Wise brought in Bablu Vijayakumar from them while Ilya Vorobiev is Monzo’s Product Director.

Risk personnel can also find homes elsewhere. GoCardless hired Justyn Fleming as head of enterprise risk in December.

European banks employ the most, American banks employ the best

Naturally, some of Revolut’s bigger names will end up going into investment banking. While there are a large number of Revolut alumni working in the major European banks such as Barclays and Credit Suisse, it is the Americans who hire them for more senior positions.

One of the biggest movers was Rohit Singhania. He joined Goldman Sachs as managing director of operational risk in January.

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