Robinhood

Scaling fast

Financial Services Menlo Park, California Watching 2,500 employees Updated as of Jun 26

The read

Robinhood added 297 net heads over 90 days—82 in engineering, 50 in operations, 46 in customer service—pulling talent from traditional brokerages (Charles Schwab, Fidelity, E*TRADE) and Amazon. Yet the picture darkens at the top: the Chief Technology Officer departed, along with the Senior Director of Crypto Operations & COO of Robinhood Crypto (to Agora), a VP of Engineering (to OpenAI), and the Head of Technical Recruiting (to Hadrian). New CXO hires (Chief Accounting Officer, two CXR roles) and a Senior Director promotion to President and COO suggest succession planning and a push to professionalize operations, but the technology leadership churn—especially the CTO and the OpenAI defection—signals potential friction or strategy reset beneath the hiring surge.

+6% of staff
Net headcount · 90d: +297; mostly Engineering
New hires · 90d: 307; vs 307 hires
Departures · 90d: 10; quiet
Leadership moves · 90d: 0

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Hiring paceCooling

New hires per month, last 12 months. 851 total hires.

0 joined
Jun 2025

51 joined
Jul 2025

76 joined
Aug 2025

52 joined
Sep 2025

62 joined
Oct 2025

51 joined
Nov 2025

117 joined
Dec 2025

64 joined
Jan 2026

71 joined
Feb 2026

79 joined
Mar 2026

143 joined
Apr 2026

85 joined
May 2026

12 months agoLast month

Notable moves

Hires, exits and promotions over the last 90 days — by role and function.

76 people joined Engineering Aggregate
45 people joined Aggregate
34 people joined Aggregate
20 people joined Aggregate
8 people joined Aggregate
7 people joined Aggregate

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Where they're growing

Net change by function, last 90 days.

Engineering +72

+45

+34

+20

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Talent flow

Which companies Robinhood hires from — and loses people to — over the last 90 days.

Recruiting from

AAmazon+7

CCharles Schwab+6

FFidelity Investments+5

EE*TRADE from Morgan Stanley+4

GGoldman Sachs+4

Cash App+3

Departing to

OpenAI−2

AAgora−1

AAlpaca−1

HHadrian−1

SStealth Startup−1

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