Reddit Experience · Apr 2026 · San Diego

Qualcomm vs IBM New Grad

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Hello, I am deciding between two offers. Which would you go with, and why? I am looking for reasons between location, career trajectory, and pay. IBM: base 187k(non-negotiable), bonuses only apply to

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Hello, I am deciding between two offers. Which would you go with, and why? I am looking for reasons between location, career trajectory, and pay. IBM: base 187k(non-negotiable), bonuses only apply to first year so irrelevant to me. Location is in San Jose, near family, will be working on Cloud/DevOps. Hybrid, in office about 3x a week Qualcomm: base 130k, RSU is about 50k a year (still negotiating). So total should be about 180k. Location is in San Diego, not as near to family, will be working with embedded devices. In person, so 5x a week. Possibly government contracts too, so it would would be classified.

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