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How people got research & staff jobs at University of California, Berkeley
What 33 people did before they joined University of California, Berkeley: where they worked, what they studied, which role they came in through, and how long it took.
33
people in our data got there
57%
had a graduate degree first (of those listing one)
3
typical years since first job
- The most common step right before: from other companies (67%).
- The most common way in was Research (61% joined in that kind of role).
- Of those who list their education, 57% had a graduate degree before arriving and 14% a PhD.
- The typical person arrived about 3 years after their first job.
How University of California, Berkeley compares
- On these measures, University of California, Berkeley is close to typical for universities.
Among people who list their education; places with at least 10 such people.
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| People listing education | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| Stanford University | 24 | 42% |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 25 | 24% |
| Columbia University | 22 | 18% |
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| Median years | ||
|---|---|---|
| Columbia University | 5 yrs | |
| Stanford University | 4 yrs | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 4 yrs | |
| University of California, Berkeley (this page) | 3 yrs |
Which role they joined in
Kinds of role with fewer than 5 people are combined into "All other roles".
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| People | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| Research | 20 | 61% |
| All other roles | 13 | 39% |
What they did right before
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| People | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| From other companies | 22 | 67% |
| This was their first listed step | 5 | 15% |
| Other | 6 | 18% |
Education
Among the 7 of 33 people who list their education.
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| People | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| Bachelor's | 3 | 43% |
| Master's | 3 | 43% |
| PhD | 1 | 14% |
How much experience they had
Among the 26 of 33 people with an earlier job listed.
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| People | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| Under 1 year | 2 | 8% |
| 1-3 years | 8 | 31% |
| 3-5 years | 11 | 42% |
| 5-8 years | 4 | 15% |
| 12+ years | 1 | 4% |
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Related
How these numbers are made. From 3k+ public career histories collected for careerladder.fyi (dated jobs, degrees and publications). The collection was built around particular employers, so people who reached well-known tech, AI and finance employers are over-represented: read shares as "among people in this dataset", not as hiring odds. Names are shown only when at least 5 people are behind them; smaller groups are combined into "Other". No individual profile is shown. Updated November 2026.