Mike Carter
By Mike Carter, Workforce Solutions Leader, KORE1 Hiring a DevSecOps engineer in 2026 comes down to naming which of three roles you actually need, budgeting $135,000 to $200,000 base for mid-to-senior talent, and screening for someone who builds security into the pipeline instead of scanning and filing tickets. That one word, “which,” carries the whole … Read more
By Mike Carter, Workforce Solutions Leader, KORE1 Hiring a penetration tester in 2026 means deciding first whether you need a full-time employee, a contractor, or a single scoped engagement, then budgeting $120,000 to $200,000 in base pay for staff or $5,000 to $25,000 for most one-off tests. That one decision, staff versus engagement, changes everything … Read more
A strong business analyst job description names which kind of BA you actually need, spells out the tools and methods, and posts a salary band, because one title quietly covers three different jobs that pay very differently. The template below comes from business analyst searches that filled, not the wishlist reqs that pull 250 applicants … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 Strong Go developer interview questions in 2026 test five things: concurrency with goroutines and channels, idiomatic interfaces and error handling, the standard library, production judgment, and whether the candidate writes simple Go or ports habits from another language. Most loops skip straight to a syntax quiz and … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 Tech salary benchmarking is the practice of pricing a role against several live market sources at once, adjusted for level, location, and stack, instead of trusting one published average that started aging the day it went out. A number is not a benchmark. A method is. What … Read more
An enterprise architect owns the technology strategy for an entire organization, aligning every major system, platform, and IT investment with the business roadmap three to five years out, and earns $150,000 to $230,000 base in the U.S. in 2026. That is a different job from a solutions architect, and the confusion between the two is … Read more
By Mike Carter, Managing Director, KORE1 To hire a Chief AI Officer, decide first whether the seat is a strategist, an operator, or a governance owner, budget $400,000 to $800,000 in total compensation, and plan three to five months for a genuine executive search. That range covers most of the market. It hides the thing … Read more
By Mike Carter, Managing Director, KORE1 To hire a director of IT, first decide whether you need an operator or a strategist, set a base band of roughly $150,000 to $230,000, and run a four-to-eight-week search built around business outcomes rather than a tool checklist. That base moves a lot depending on whether the person … Read more
Strong Rust developer interview questions in 2026 test five things: ownership and lifetimes, fearless concurrency, safe use of unsafe, idiomatic trait design, and the judgment to know when Rust is the wrong tool for the job. Most loops turn the borrow checker into a gotcha quiz and never find out whether the person can ship … Read more
Strong technical program manager interview questions in 2026 test five things: cross-team execution, real technical depth, influence without authority, risk and scope judgment under a slipping schedule, and the sense to know when a program shouldn’t exist at all. Most loops spend their time on system-design puzzles borrowed from an engineering interview and never once … Read more
