Jennifer Burdick
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 A blockchain developer job description should name the chain and contract language, the test toolchain, how much value the code will control, who holds signing keys, how the code exercise is delivered, and the pay, tokens included. Base pay starts around $125,000 for mid-level smart contract work this year … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 Big data engineer interview questions worth asking test the physics of scale, such as where a shuffle’s partition count came from, what fills a NameNode’s memory, and why a Kafka consumer group stalls on every deploy. Ask for definitions of the four Vs or lazy evaluation during a phone … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 Good AI agent engineer interview questions ask about consequences, meaning what the candidate’s agent was allowed to change, how it knew to stop, and what happened when a single tool call ran twice. Framework names and definitions of “agentic” belong on a phone screen, if anywhere. Hire the one … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 Informatica developers earn $95,000 to $210,000 in 2026, with maintenance-only PowerCenter work at the bottom of that range and PowerCenter-to-IDMC migration leads at the top. The gap is not seniority. It is which side of the migration the work sits on, and most reqs are still priced as though … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 The systems administrator interview questions that predict a good hire ask about restores the candidate actually ran, where the BitLocker recovery keys live, how certificates get renewed, and the last outage they owned. Definitions of RAID levels and FSMO roles belong on a phone screen at most, because every … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 A Rust developer job description should name where the compiled code runs, the toolchain and edition you build with, how much unsafe code the team maintains, how new crates get approved, and what the seat pays. Mid-level Rust engineers are getting about $135,000 to $170,000 base this year, and … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 An SAP consultant job description should name the module, the SAP edition and release you run, how configuration reaches production, how much the seat travels, and the base pay band. Mid-level functional SAP consultants earn about $105,000 to $145,000 in 2026, and senior ones $145,000 to $185,000. Leave the … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 Scale an engineering team with contractors by sizing to the review hours your own engineers can spare, embedding one contractor per two permanent engineers, putting heavier loads in pods with their own leads, and adding people in waves. Budget is rarely the first thing to run out. Permanent attention … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 An Oracle DBA job description should name the Oracle Database edition and version you license, say where the databases run, describe the RAC, Data Guard, and backup setup the DBA inherits, and post a base salary range. Mid-level Oracle DBAs earn about $112,000 to $148,000 base in 2026, and … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 When a technical contractor isn’t working out, spend a few days finding out whether the setup, the person, or the scope is failing, then coach, replace, or convert to match. A setup problem usually clears within two weeks of honest coaching. A person problem is fastest to fix through … Read more
