Mike Carter
Workday Layoffs 2026: What the Customer Operations Cuts Mean for the Workday Consulting Market Workday eliminated roughly 400 jobs on February 4, 2026, a 2% cut concentrated in the Global Customer Operations group, with 154 of those positions documented at the Pleasanton headquarters under a California WARN filing and the rest spread across remote and … Read more
Microsoft Layoffs 2026: What the Rule of 70 Buyout Means for Hiring Managers Microsoft announced on April 23, 2026, that it will offer voluntary retirement packages to approximately 8,750 US employees (7% of its domestic workforce) under a “Rule of 70” formula, the first program of its kind in the company’s 51-year history, with notifications … Read more
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 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 have almost nothing in common … Read more
Meta cut roughly 8,000 roles, about 10% of global headcount, on May 20, 2026, hitting Reality Labs, Facebook, recruiting, sales, and non-AI product teams. It followed a January Reality Labs cut of 1,000 to 1,500 and a March reduction of about 700 across five divisions. A second-half round is signaled but not yet dated. Revenue … Read more
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 market. The number that actually matters is the one keyed to your workload. … Read more
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 not satisfy a founder staring … 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
