Jennifer Burdick
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 A director of product job description should state the team size, the decisions the director owns, what the roadmap already promises, the reporting line, and a base range, typically $195,000 to $325,000 in 2026. Most postings describe a senior product manager and add a sentence about leading a team. … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 A DevSecOps engineer job description should name the CI system, repository count, clouds, open findings backlog, licensed tools, who can bypass a failed security check, and a pay range, typically $120,000 to $195,000 base in 2026. Most postings list tools instead. Tool lists do not tell a candidate what … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 A controller job description should state how many entities the books cover, whether the statements are compiled, reviewed, or audited, the close target, the ERP, the team size, what the controller signs, and the pay range. Base pay for most controller seats runs from $115,000 to $235,000 in 2026, … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 The chief revenue officer interview questions worth asking in 2026 make a finalist give you numbers with their denominators, inspect a live deal in front of you, and name the people who can confirm both. Everything else is conversation. Your finalist is better at conversation than you are. That … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 SQL Server 2016 reached end of life on July 14, 2026, and the choices now are paid Extended Security Updates through July 2029, an upgrade to SQL Server 2022 or 2025, Azure SQL, or a migration to PostgreSQL. Nothing switched off that day. The databases still start. The reports … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 Engineering capacity planning means multiplying engineers by working days, subtracting holidays, PTO, meetings, on-call, and maintenance, and comparing what remains against roadmap estimates padded by your team’s own track record. Whatever is left over is the gap. Every way of closing it arrives on a different calendar, and a … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 An ERP implementation checklist lists the work across eight phases, from contract and design through cutover and hypercare, and a useful one also budgets the people, meaning who covers each borrowed employee’s day job and what that cover costs. Most published checklists stop at the first half. The second … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 Contingent workers make up about 4.3 percent of US employment, roughly 6.9 million people, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, not the 40 percent figure that keeps turning up in vendor decks. That 40 percent number is real. It also dates from 2010, comes from the … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 Good chief data officer interview questions make finalists prove, with dated examples, that they have tied a data program to a financial result, shut down a project, and explained a data failure to unhappy executives. Questions about vision and philosophy are easy to rehearse. Questions about money, stopping, and … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 Useful Guidewire developer interview questions make the candidate read Gosu, trace a single commit through bundles and pre-update rules, and explain what a messaging destination does when one claim’s message fails and the retries start. Definitions of PCF files and typelists can stay on the phone screen. The panel … Read more
