# Before The Interview (Prep)
## Questions from me
### Technical
- What is the tech stack?
- Operating system?
- Programming Languages?
- Tools provided to developers?
- Do you use Nix? If so, how?
### The Team
- How is collaboration with the domain experts handled?
- Is this relevant?
- How are projects managed?
- Self managed?
- Dedicated project manager?
- Size of team?
- Scope of teams work?
- How often to team members take vacation?
- This is a soft question to gauge how hard employees are worked
### The Manager
- What does success in this role look like to you?
- 90 days from now?
- 1 year from now?
- 5 years from now?
- What are the biggest challenges on the team, both in the past and right now?
- What was done to address those past challenges?
- What does the growth path for this job look like?
- What does career progression look like for this role and generally throughout the company?
- How do you like to give feedback?
- Are there regular performance reviews? If so, what does that process look like?
- What are the *companies* top priorities right now?
- Is there anything in my background you would like to expand on?
## Things I enjoyed working on
- Most recently
- Designing systems that minimize distributed transactions load while maintaining request though put
- Highly heterogeneous job resource utilization, predictive heuristic-based load balancing
- Inference jobs have wildly different load properties depending on request size
- Surgical modifications to an extremely high performance transaction processing system (Agave)
- Older
- Reverse engineering the serial command protocol for a laser module
- Mostly a side thing when working at Infleqtion
- Windows-only GUI application for control
- Used to implement a "slow-servo" service that integrated with a general purpose control system
- "Sundial"
- Distributed, message broker and feedback control system purpose built for AMO systems
- Worked exceptionally well
# The Interview
- Martin
- Runs sw team that builds quantum os, runs psiquantum quantum computers
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