Robert Ardell
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 The Senate permitting deal, introduced September 30, 2026, would put most of its new grid work on transmission planners, interconnection engineers, and line designers, but almost none of that work lands before 2027, even if the bill passes in November. For permitting reform, the engineering jobs question … Read more
Q4 2026 tech job market forecast: tech cuts near 9,000 a month, freezes after the Fed’s rate hike, and the tech roles that still close before year-end.
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 DevSecOps engineer interview questions worth asking in 2026 test whether a candidate can defend the build system itself, keep scanner noise low enough that developers still read it, and respond when a trusted dependency turns hostile. Tool definitions are easy to study. Those three things are not. … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 Contractor offboarding access revocation means closing every path a contractor had into your systems, not just disabling the SSO account: live sessions, refresh tokens, personal access tokens, cloud keys, and the shared secrets they could read. Most teams do the first item and call it done. A … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 The chief AI officer interview questions that separate finalists in 2026 ask about things that already happened, like the AI inventory a candidate built, what one feature cost per task, and who could shut it off. Strategy answers are rehearsed now. Receipts are not. A specialty insurer … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 To hire a Guidewire developer in 2026, decide which application, which layer, and which deployment the seat covers, then check every certification against Guidewire’s own release rules before anyone books a panel interview. Plan on six to twelve weeks for a direct hire and four to eight … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 An Informatica developer job description works when it names which Informatica product the person will actually open, how far along the move off PowerCenter is, whether data quality is part of the job, and the pay. Most name none of those. They say “Informatica” and stop there, … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 The penetration tester interview questions that predict the hire put a live target in front of the candidate, ask who authorized their last test, and make them explain one finding in writing. Certifications and clean trivia answers tell you almost nothing. A candidate can recite the five … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 Good mobile developer interview questions in 2026 ask about a store release the candidate owned, an app that survived process death and a dead network, and the exact point where their framework ran out. Trivia predicts nothing. A candidate can define a TurboModule, a composable, and a … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 No federal or state law caps contractor tenure at 18 months. The rule is a private risk-management convention, and the court case that inspired it was lost over benefit plan language and IRS control tests, not over calendar time. Somebody at your company can probably recite the … Read more
