After Qualcomm
- 11%Joined a startup14
- 35%Joined a big company44
- 54%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Qualcomm most often go to Google, Microsoft and Apple. 11% go small. Median stay 1y 10m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Qualcomm's headcount: 133 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 71 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1330.5% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 54% of the people here
- Moved on
- 12896% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 10mmiddle half 5m to 2y 11m
Put Qualcomm 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 IBM. Most leave for Google (8% of recorded departures).
10 of 90 recorded arrivals shown, 80 more from 72 other companies48 of 135 recorded departures shown, 87 more to 77 other companies
How long people stay
33%<1y
22%1-2y
28%2-4y
10%4-7y
7%7y+
58 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
7812
9613
111014
81015
6716
141417
121018
181719
121220
131121
61022
6923
1024
1125
0026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 124 joined, 125 left.
Caliber
84mediantop 10%93
0Eng Scorer caliber, 133 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer Intern43
- Software Engineer20
- Interim Engineering Intern8
- Engineering Intern6
- Senior Software Engineer4
- Intern3
- Senior Engineer3
- Senior Staff Engineer3
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 32% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 3%Exceptional4 people
- 27%Strong36 people
- 43%Solid57 people
- 25%Emerging33 people
- 2%Unproven3 people
133 of the 133 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 40 of the 133 people here with a read sit in them, 30%. 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.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
34%Titles that rose39 of 114 classified people
- 34%Rose39 people
- 61%Stayed level70 people
- 4%Fell5 people
114 of the 133 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 who recorded one title here and then left, it is 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. A title that matches no rung is left out rather than guessed, and product, program and project managers are left out entirely, being a different ladder. That leaves 114 of the 133 people here classified, and it leans towards people who have left: someone still here on a single recorded title has nothing to be measured against.
Where they studied
- UC Berkeley16.5%
- UC San Diego9.8%
- Carnegie Mellon8.3%
- Stanford7.5%
- UIUC7.5%
- University of Michigan6.0%
- Georgia Tech3.8%
- MIT3.8%
The 8 most listed schools among the 133 people here with a school on file.
Of the 133 people here with a school on file, 22 list UC Berkeley, 13 list UC San Diego and 11 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
50 of the 133 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
57% of the people who have worked at Qualcomm and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Qualcomm
Everyone on the map
- 57%SF Bay Area76 · map 47%
- 27%New York36 · map 33%
- 4%Los Angeles5 · map 6%
- 4%Washington DC5 · map 7%
- 2%Seattle3 · map 3%
- 6%Somewhere else8
All 133 people who worked at Qualcomm 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 Qualcomm: 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.
On the same resumes
Companies that show up most often alongside Qualcomm, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 133 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Qualcomm: 5 are there now and 128 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Qualcomm is Google (11 people, 8% of recorded departures), followed by Microsoft and Apple.
- The most common previous employer before Qualcomm is IBM (4 people), followed by Google and Texas Instruments.
- The median tenure at Qualcomm is 1y 10m (middle half 5m to 2y 11m).
- Of those who moved on from Qualcomm, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 11% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 35% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Qualcomm is 84 on the 0 to 99 scale (133 scored).
- The most common title held at Qualcomm is Software Engineer Intern, then Software Engineer.
- Of the 133 people here with a school on file, 22 list UC Berkeley (16.5%), then UC San Diego (13). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 57% of the 133 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.
- 38% of the 133 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
- Of the 114 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 39 rose, 70 stayed level and 5 fell.
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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