Quantum Computing Is Hiring. The Lab That Wants You Speaks Another Language.

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

You’re in your mid-twenties. You just defended a thesis on superconducting qubits, and an email arrives that you read four times to be sure it’s real: a position at one of the best quantum labs in the world. It’s in Delft. Or Saclay. Or Hefei. The work will be in English — the papers, the code, the group meetings. You’re set.

Then you land. And you find out that English gets you through the seminar but not through the rest of your life.

How to Prepare for a Job Interview in Another Language

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The interview was on a Thursday. The role was a senior engineering position at a company in Berlin, I was applying from London, and the final round would be in German.

I’d been studying for months. I could introduce myself. I could talk about the weather, order in a restaurant, describe my apartment. I knew the word for “table” and the word for “brown.” None of that was going to get me through a conversation about distributed systems with three engineers who’d been writing production code in German for fifteen years.

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Quantum Computing Is Hiring. The Lab That Wants You Speaks Another Language.

How to Prepare for a Job Interview in Another Language