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D-Wave Certified as a Great Place to Work Company

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June 5, 2026 by Ivy Delaney

D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) has earned Great Place To Work Certification, a distinction that sets it apart as the only dual-platform quantum computing company offering both annealing and gate-model systems to achieve this recognition. The certification is based entirely on employee feedback, evaluating factors like trust, respect, and camaraderie, rather than company-driven assessments. This news arrives as D-Wave actively scales its global workforce and collaborates with enterprises, research institutions, and government organizations to advance quantum computing solutions. “At D-Wave, our culture is built by extraordinary people who are solving hard problems, building breakthrough technologies and helping create the market for quantum computing,” said Dr. Alan Baratz, CEO of D-Wave. “This certification is especially meaningful because it reflects the voices and experiences of our employees.”

D-Wave Quantum Inc. The certification process relies exclusively on confidential employee feedback, assessing elements like trust, respect, and fairness, establishing a credible measure of workplace satisfaction independent of company public relations. The Great Place To Work recognition is considered a global benchmark for outstanding employee experience, and D-Wave’s achievement underscores the company’s focus on its internal environment. Alan Baratz, CEO of D-Wave, emphasized the importance of this recognition.

Employee Feedback Drives D-Wave’s Workplace Culture Recognition

D-Wave Quantum Inc. The company’s success in attaining this recognition coincides with a period of deliberate workforce expansion and increased collaboration with enterprises, research institutions, and governmental bodies, suggesting a sustained positive culture even amidst rapid growth, which is often challenging for organizations. Alan Baratz, CEO of D-Wave, noted that leadership prioritizes maintaining a culture that empowers its workforce. Maintaining a strong internal culture is important to D-Wave, as evidenced by the certification process, which relies solely on direct employee feedback.

At D-Wave, our culture is built by extraordinary people who are solving hard problems, building breakthrough technologies and helping create the market for quantum computing.

Dr. Alan Baratz, CEO of D-Wave
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Ivy Delaney has been working with neural networks and machine learning since the mid-nineties, back when a couple of hidden layers and a long afternoon of training counted as ambitious. She has watched the field go from academic curiosity to the thing quietly running underneath everything, and she brings that long view to quantum computing. For Quantum Zeitgeist she covers the ground where the two fields meet. That means quantum machine learning and the variational algorithms it leans on, and it also means the less glamorous but more interesting story of classical machine learning already doing real work inside quantum machines, decoding error-correcting codes, calibrating noisy hardware and learning the error models that simulators depend on. She writes about the hardware those algorithms have to run on too, and about the post-quantum cryptography scramble that the same hardware has set off. Her stories typically start with the paper, whether that is peer-reviewed work, conference proceedings or an arXiv preprint, with the source linked so you can hold a claim up against the research it came from. She is unimpressed by benchmarks that will not say what they beat, and by demonstrations that only work in the press release.

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