After Qualcomm
- 1%Founded something4
- 15%Joined a startup56
- 45%Joined a big company166
- 39%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Qualcomm most often go to Google, Amazon and Microsoft. Of them, 15% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 1m
Not Qualcomm's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 437 people on a map of 67,181, No. 45 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 4370.7% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 358% of the people here
- Moved on
- 40292% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 1mmiddle half 1y to 3y 9m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from IBM. Most leave for Google (9% of recorded departures).
45 of 285 recorded arrivals shown, 240 more from 215 other companies163 of 392 recorded departures shown, 229 more to 193 other companies
How long people stay
23%<1y
23%1-2y
31%2-4y
15%4-7y
8%7y+
230 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
332412
423013
404314
273815
313316
353117
314318
403519
403220
282321
152122
212923
12924
171525
5426
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 417 joined, 410 left.
Caliber
84mediantop 10%92
0Eng Scorer caliber, 171 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer Intern110
- Software Engineer69
- Interim Engineering Intern31
- Senior Software Engineer31
- Engineering Intern22
- Senior Engineer14
- Intern12
- Engineer11
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%Exceptional5 people
- 26%Strong44 people
- 37%Solid63 people
- 30%Emerging52 people
- 4%Unproven7 people
171 of the 437 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
49 of the 171 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 29%. 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.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
43%Titles that rose154 of 355 classified people
- 43%Rose154 people
- 48%Stayed level172 people
- 8%Fell29 people
355 of the 437 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
- UC Berkeley9.8%
- UC San Diego8.9%
- Georgia Tech8.2%
- Carnegie Mellon7.8%
- Stanford5.5%
- UCLA5.3%
- USC4.8%
- UIUC4.6%
The 8 most listed schools among the 437 people here with a school on file.
43 of the 437 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 39 list UC San Diego and 36 list Georgia Tech. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
32%have a public GitHub account on their profile
140 of the 437 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
56% of the people who have worked at Qualcomm and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Qualcomm
Everyone on the map
- 56%SF Bay Area243 · map 41%
- 13%New York57 · map 18%
- 7%San Diego31 · map 0.5%
- 5%Seattle21 · map 5%
- 4%Washington DC19 · map 13%
- 4%Los Angeles17 · map 5%
- 0.9%Austin4 · map 0.8%
- 0.7%Boston3 · map 2%
- 10%Somewhere else42
All 437 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 working at Qualcomm: 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 Qualcomm, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 437 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Qualcomm: 35 are there now, 402 have moved on.
- Most leave for Google: 37 people, 9% of recorded departures. Then Amazon and Microsoft.
- Most arrive from IBM: 8 people. Then Intel and AMD.
- Median tenure at Qualcomm: 2y 1m, middle half 1y to 3y 9m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Qualcomm, 1% went to a founder title next, 15% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 45% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 84 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 171 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer Intern, then Software Engineer.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 43 of the 437 people here with one on file (9.8%). Then UC San Diego (39).
- 56% of the 437 people here who list a location live in SF Bay Area today, against 41% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 32% of the 437 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 154 rose, 172 stayed level, 29 fell, out of the 355 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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