Devin Hornick
A data engineer builds and maintains the pipelines and warehouses that move data to where it gets used. A data scientist uses that prepared data to answer business questions with statistics and machine learning. Engineers ship infrastructure. Scientists ship insights. Hire the engineer first if your data is not yet clean and queryable. We help … Read more
Workforce Analytics: Using Data to Drive Talent Decisions A head of HR at a 600-person manufacturer in Riverside called us last summer. She wanted to hire “a people analytics person.” Halfway through the intake call she paused and asked if we could help her figure out what she actually meant by that. Did she want … Read more
Hiring a CIO means running an executive search, not posting a job: define the role for where the business is heading, benchmark pay, interview for judgment over buzzwords, and budget 8-12 weeks with a retained firm or 3-6 months in-house. Most boards spend more time selecting a conference room AV system than they do structuring … Read more
Reshoring brought 244,000 manufacturing jobs back to the US in 2024, according to the Reshoring Initiative’s 2024 Annual Report. That pushed the cumulative total past 2 million since 2010. The facilities are getting funded. The construction is happening. The part that keeps stalling is finding the engineers to actually run them. Reshoring is adding manufacturing … Read more
A cloud engineer career path covers five distinct levels, starting at roughly $95,000 for junior roles and reaching well past $200,000 at the principal level, though most of the guides floating around online stop at “senior” and pretend the rest doesn’t exist. Most people know the first two rungs. Almost nobody talks about what happens … Read more
Building a software development team from scratch means choosing the right roles, hiring sequence, and team model before writing a single job description. Companies that get this wrong burn $50,000 or more in failed hires and missed deadlines before correcting course. We had a client last year, mid-size fintech in Irvine, who decided they were … Read more
IT outsourcing is contracting an external provider to handle technology functions your organization either can’t or chooses not to staff internally. The global IT outsourcing market crossed $639 billion in 2026. Roughly half of all outsourced IT projects underperform or fail outright, depending on whose survey you trust. Both of those numbers are real, and … Read more
New Grad Job Market 2026: Why Smart Employers Are Hiring Anyway The 2026 entry-level job market is the weakest in nearly four decades, with recent-grad underemployment at 42.5% and hiring close to flat. Employers who build entry-level pipelines now, while demand is suppressed, lock in talent before the rebound forces a bidding war. By one … Read more
Workforce Planning: Complete Guide for Growing Companies Nine percent. That’s how many companies actually do strategic workforce planning according to McKinsey’s 2025 HR Monitor, which surveyed nearly 2,000 organizations. The other 91 percent are either running short-term operational planning or, honestly, just winging it. We see this constantly. A VP of Engineering walks into a … Read more
Hire a Kubernetes Engineer: Skills, Salary & Screening To hire a Kubernetes engineer in 2026, budget $120K–$160K mid-level and $190K+ senior, and search beyond the title: most K8s operators are listed as DevOps, Platform, or Site Reliability Engineers. Screen for production cluster hours, not certifications. Hiring a Kubernetes engineer means finding someone who can manage … Read more
