Gregg Flecke
Databricks did not run a layoff in 2026. The company crossed a $5.4 billion annualized revenue run-rate at 65 percent year-over-year growth, raised $5 billion at a $134 billion valuation in February, and is sitting on more than 840 open roles heading into an expected second-half S-1 filing. The “Databricks layoffs 2026” search trend is … Read more
Reshoring Engineering Jobs 2026: Which Roles & Where By Gregg Flecke Reshoring brought 244,000 announced manufacturing jobs into the US in 2024, and the bottleneck has shifted to engineering, with controls, manufacturing process, mechanical, electrical, and quality engineers in shortest supply across Texas, Arizona, Ohio, Georgia, and the Carolinas. Most of those jobs were classified … Read more
Apple has not run a single big-bang layoff in 2026, but the Vision Products Group was dissolved on April 29, the Vision Pro hardware roadmap was effectively paused, three US retail stores were marked for June closure, and the AI org turned over its top seat when John Giannandrea exited on April 13. The cumulative … Read more
Salesforce Developer Job Description Template 2026 By Gregg Flecke A Salesforce developer designs, builds, and maintains custom logic on the Salesforce Platform using Apex, Lightning Web Components, and Flow, with 2026 U.S. base salaries from $110,000 at mid-level to $215,000 for senior platform leads. Most of the searches that drag past 60 days come from … Read more
How to Hire Kafka Engineers in 2026 By Gregg Flecke Kafka engineers in 2026 cost $135K to $185K mid-level and $190K to $260K senior in the United States, with most well-scoped searches closing in 4 to 8 weeks. The job title hides a two-track career split that almost no hiring manager names out loud: cluster … Read more
How to Hire Databricks Engineers in 2026 By Gregg Flecke Databricks engineers in 2026 cost $140K to $190K mid-level and $200K to $280K senior in the United States, with most well-scoped searches closing in 5 to 9 weeks. The headline range hides four distinct specializations whose comp bands diverge by roughly $55K once Unity Catalog, … Read more
SOC Analyst Interview Questions 2026 SOC analyst interviews in 2026 still test fundamentals and incident response phases, but the offer decision now lives in detection engineering, cloud SOC scenarios, and how candidates triage alerts when the AI summarizer has already swept the obvious ones. The interview shape moved. Most question banks did not. Candidates who … Read more
Salesforce Architect Salary Guide 2026 Salesforce architects in the United States earn $155,000 to $215,000 base in 2026 for mid and senior roles, with Certified Technical Architects pulling $260,000 to $340,000 once equity and bonus stack on top. The CTA premium is real and the public salary aggregators almost universally understate it. The wider band … Read more
SAP is trimming 1 to 2 percent of its 100,000-plus workforce every year as a permanent policy, with 82 cut at the Palo Alto research center in November 2025 and a steady drumbeat of role eliminations tied to the company’s AI restructuring. The Walldorf line is that this is “continuous optimization.” For hiring managers, it … Read more
Front-end developers in the US earn $75,000 to $190,000 base in 2026, with most senior offers closing between $130K and $185K depending on stack, metro, and whether the engineer owns design or just implements it. Two front-end offers crossed my desk in March. One came in at $112,000. The other, for what read on paper … Read more
