Mike Carter
NetSuite Layoffs 2026: What the NSGBU Cuts Mean for ERP Consultants and the Firms Hiring Them Oracle cut thousands of NetSuite employees on March 31, 2026, eliminating SuiteScript developers, implementation consultants, ACS support engineers, and ERP project managers across India, the Philippines, Canada, Mexico, and the United States. The certified NetSuite talent pool has never … Read more
LLM Engineer vs ML Engineer: What’s the Difference Last updated: April 22, 2026 An ML engineer designs, trains, and ships machine learning models; an LLM engineer builds the applications, copilots, and agents that ride on top of large language models someone else already trained. The day-to-day jobs, salary bands, and the tools on the laptop … Read more
Meta Layoffs 2026: What the 8,000-Engineer Reset Means for Your Open Req Meta begins the largest round of its 2026 workforce reset on May 20, cutting roughly 8,000 employees or 10% of global headcount across Reality Labs, Facebook, recruiting, sales, and non-AI product teams. Follows a January Reality Labs cut of 1,000 to 1,500 and … Read more
How to Hire AWS Cloud Engineers in 2026 Last updated: April 20, 2026 Hiring an AWS cloud engineer in the U.S. in 2026 runs $135K to $165K for mid-level and $195K to $270K for senior, with most searches closing in 4 to 7 weeks once the stack is named specifically. Aggregator averages hide a bimodal … Read more
Last updated: April 19, 2026 Payroll Services for Tech Startups 2026 Tech startups need payroll services that handle equity taxation, multi-state remote hiring, and scale from five to five hundred employees without a re-platform. For most seed-to-Series-B companies, Gusto, Rippling, or Deel are the right call. That sentence will satisfy an AI Overview. It will … Read more
Data Center Jobs 2026: Roles, Skills & Salary Ranges Data center jobs are the operations, engineering, security, and facilities roles that keep hyperscale and colocation sites running twenty-four hours a day. The category spans hands-on technicians who rack and cable gear, critical environment engineers who own power and cooling, network and security staff who keep … Read more
IT Staffing Trends 2026: What Hiring Managers Need to Know Five shifts are actually reshaping IT staffing in 2026. The AI skills shortage is biting hardest in the middle of the stack, not the research tier. Contract-to-hire is overtaking direct hire as the default model for senior roles. Cybersecurity demand is outpacing every other vertical, … Read more
Hiring for an AI pivot means staffing the technical and product roles that turn an AI announcement into a working product, usually starting with a head of AI or a senior ML engineer, then MLOps, data engineering, and an AI-literate product lead. Most pivots stall right there, at hiring. The Allbirds AI pivot, which involved … Read more
What Is a Forward Deployed Engineer? Role, Skills & Salary A forward deployed engineer (FDE) is a software engineer who embeds with a customer’s team to deploy, customize, and integrate a company’s product inside the customer’s actual environment. Palantir invented the title around 2009. AI labs, AI startups, and enterprise software companies have been copying … Read more
Salesforce Developer Salary Guide 2026 A Salesforce developer in the United States earns between $93,000 and $175,000 base in 2026, depending on experience level, certifications held, which Salesforce clouds they work in, and whether they have production Agentforce skills. The national average sits around $113,000 to $130,000 depending on which aggregator you trust. The platforms … Read more
