Gregg Flecke
By Gregg Flecke, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, KORE1 Hire an integration engineer by screening for failure handling, not platform names, because retries, duplicate messages, and partner schema changes cause most production incidents. Base pay runs roughly $85,000 to $150,000 in 2026 depending on how you level the role, and a scoped search closes in four … Read more
By Gregg Flecke, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, KORE1 EDI analyst interview questions in 2026 should test acknowledgment reasoning, ASN accuracy against the physical shipment, partner-spec deviation handling, and one real production failure, not definitions of X12 transaction set numbers. Most published question lists stop at the definitions. Nobody has ever failed a definition. The better … Read more
By Gregg Flecke, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, KORE1 A Workday HCM consultant job description should name the tenant size, the live modules, which Workday Pro certification area the work falls in, and the release cycle the hire inherits. Base bands run $100,000 to $175,000 in 2026 depending on where the seat lands. There is a … Read more
By Gregg Flecke, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, KORE1 Embedded software engineer interview questions in 2026 test memory-constrained C, RTOS scheduling and priority inversion, interrupt and DMA discipline, hardware debug method, and secure update paths, not the data-structures loop a general software engineer runs. The two roles share a language and almost nothing else. Most reqs … Read more
By Gregg Flecke, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, KORE1 The 2026 contract labor market gives buyers deeper candidate pools and less pricing power than 2025 did. Temporary employment has climbed seven straight months while total payrolls went flat, bill rates turned upward in February, and the federal rulebook on who counts as a contractor is being … Read more
By Gregg Flecke, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, KORE1 AI engineer contract rates in 2026 run $125 to $240 an hour as an agency bill rate for mid-to-senior US talent, with the contractor earning $85 to $160 of that. Scarce production specialists clear $300. The number your vendor quotes depends less on seniority than on which … Read more
By Gregg Flecke, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, KORE1 To hire an Epicor consultant, scope the product and the version before the title, because Kinetic, Prophet 21, Eclipse, BisTrack, and CMS are separate talent pools billing $85 to $165 an hour on contract in 2026. Direct-hire base for an experienced Epicor functional consultant runs roughly $110,000 … Read more
By Gregg Flecke, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, KORE1 A Salesforce administrator job description should name the org’s size, the automation the admin will own, whether the seat is solo or on a team, the current credential names, and a 2026 base band of $85,000 to $135,000. Most of the templates you will find for this … Read more
By Gregg Flecke, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner at KORE1 Cloud security engineer interview questions in 2026 test least-privilege IAM design across AWS, Azure, or GCP, CSPM alert triage, Kubernetes and container security, and judgment during a live cloud incident, not generic AppSec or SOC-analyst material. The generic security-engineer loop still gets run against roughly half … Read more
By Gregg Flecke, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, KORE1 Hiring a NetSuite developer in 2026 runs $90,000 to $210,000 in direct-hire salary, $65 to $210 an hour on contract, or salary plus a 15% to 25% placement fee through a staffing agency. Which path costs less rarely comes down to the sticker price. It comes down … Read more
