Quantum simulation platform as a service

The company, a scale-up in DeepTechheadquartered in United States, needed to solve this challenge: “quantumsimulation platform as a service”. The obstacle wasn't so much business domainknowledge —always valuable— as finding profiles with demonstrable experience inthe project's specific technology stack; in fact, they had already tried hiringfor it without success, with the added expense and lost opportunity thatentailed. The competitive window was short: a competitor with a similar productwas already gaining market share.

Squad Challenge set up 6 challenges, oneper position, focused on professionals who already had a relationship with theclient —from its own team or from outsourcing firms it worked with—, evaluatingan average of 5 candidates per position (30 in total) in 3 days.

The squad was made up of 6 profiles (QAengineer, ML engineer, DevOps/SRE, full-stack developer, backend developer,frontend developer) working on a stack of Python (FastAPI), React, MongoDB,Cassandra, GitHub, Azure, sourced from the client and its outsourcing firms.This squad integrated with the company's existing in-house technical team,respecting established processes and priorities. Since some of these profilescame from outsourcing firms, their turnover was high (around 50%), which led toevaluating 3 additional replacements over the course of the project, reaching atotal commitment of 11 months.