Zelcastalumni map

People who leave Huawei most often go to a long tail of companies. 19% go small

These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Huawei's headcount: 21 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 473 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.

People on the map
210.1% of everyone on the map
There now
210% of the people here
Moved on
1990% of the people here
Median tenure
only 19 stays here have both a start and an end on the record, too few to take a median from

Put Huawei 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.

Not enough recorded moves to draw a river for Huawei yet.

After Huawei

  • 19%Joined a startup3
  • 19%Joined a big company3
  • 63%Elsewhere

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

How long people stay

26%<1y
42%1-2y
11%2-4y
16%4-7y
5%7y+
median tenure

19 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: 18 joined, 18 left.

Caliber

Not enough scored profiles here yet (21).

Titles held here

  1. Software Engineer4
  2. Senior Software Engineer3

2 most common titles, by people who held them.

First job on the record for 43% of people here.

Where they studied

  1. University of Waterloo21.1%

The one school among the 19 people here with a school on file.

Of the 19 people here with a school on file, 4 list University of Waterloo.

Public work

Not enough of the record here has been checked.This share needs 30 people whose profile was checked for public accounts, and there are fewer than that here.

Where they are now

57% of the people who have worked at Huawei and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.

Huawei
Everyone on the map
  • 57%SF Bay Area12 · map 47%
  • 33%New York7 · map 33%

All 21 people who worked at Huawei 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 Huawei: 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

  • 21 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Huawei: 2 are there now and 19 have moved on.
  • Of those who moved on from Huawei, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 19% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 19% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
  • The most common title held at Huawei is Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer.
  • Of the 19 people here with a school on file, 4 list University of Waterloo (21.1%). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
  • 57% of the 21 people here who list a location live in SF Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map. That is where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.

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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