Mike Carter
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 Hiring AI engineers in 2026 means competing for a national pool of roughly 40,300 computer and information research scientists, so build the plan around an eighteen-month productive window instead of a four-year tenure. That reframe changes what you screen for, what you pay for, and what you … Read more
By Mike Carter, Growth and Partnerships, KORE1 Roblox did not lay off engineers in 2026. Headcount went the other way. Up 24 percent last year, to 3,065 full-time staff, and more than 2,300 of those people build product. The pressure people are sensing is real, though. Full-year bookings guidance got cut from roughly 22 to … Read more
Generative AI creates new output from a model someone else already trained, while traditional ML predicts a number or a label from data you already own. Two different problems, two different hires, two different interviews. The overlap on paper is enormous. Python. Some flavor of cloud. The word “model” used forty times in a resume. … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 Android developers working in the United States earn a base salary of $110,000 to $180,000 in 2026. Most senior app engineers sign between $140,000 and $165,000 before any bonus or equity gets counted. Platform and automotive specialists clear $215,000. Big-tech total compensation runs past $340,000. The headline … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 Strong prompt engineer interview questions test three things: how a candidate builds an evaluation set, how they assemble context around a model, and how they hold up when the input turns hostile. Prompt writing barely registers. It is the easiest part of the job to teach and … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 A strong analytics engineer job description names the warehouse, the transformation tool, the size of the existing dbt project, and a real salary band inside the first hundred words. Everything after that is filtering. The template below is copy-and-paste ready, and the notes in parentheses tell you … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 Retained search buys one firm’s exclusive, staged-fee commitment to a single executive seat, while contingency pays only on placement and spreads your role across a recruiter’s caseload. Confidential and genuinely scarce leadership hires belong on retainer. A well-defined director role in a healthy market usually does not. … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 Hiring a blockchain developer in 2026 starts by naming which of four very different jobs you actually mean, then verifying the candidate’s on-chain work yourself before anyone schedules an interview. Base pay runs $125,000 to $230,000 depending on the lane. Six to ten weeks to close, typically. … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 A NetSuite implementation costs $35,000 to $100,000 for a small single-entity build and $180,000 to $410,000 for a typical mid-market rollout, counting software, services, and your own staff time. Most mid-market projects go live in four to six months. The number that surprises people is the third … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 Hiring a chief product officer in 2026 starts with two honest questions: is product truly a company-level function here, and will the CEO actually hand over the roadmap? Get those right, put a base of $260,000 to $450,000 on the table alongside real equity, and give the … Read more
