Robert Ardell
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 Strong solutions architect interview questions test how a candidate reasons about trade-offs, cost, and the people who live with the design, not whether they can recite AWS services, and each should come with a clear read on a good answer. A solutions architect never ships the thing … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 The best TypeScript interview questions test whether a candidate reasons in types under pressure, not whether they can recite that unknown beats any, and each one should come with a clear read on what a strong answer sounds like. I do not write TypeScript. I have spent … Read more
Hire contract IT talent when the work is a defined project, speed matters most, or the budget is capped for the year. Hire full-time when the role is a permanent function you will still need three years from now. That is the whole decision, compressed. Most people make it harder than it needs to be, … Read more
Hiring a platform engineer in 2026 means naming your platform’s maturity stage first, budgeting $130,000 to $205,000 base, and sourcing for product judgment over tool lists, because the job is building infrastructure your own developers will actually adopt. Most companies write the req before they answer that adoption question, and it costs them a quarter. … Read more
The U.S. air traffic controller shortage means the FAA is staffed roughly 3,000 controllers below its own targets, with more than a third of its facilities sitting under the 85 percent staffing goal. It is the most expensive live demonstration in the country of a simple hiring truth. You cannot freeze a talent pipeline and … Read more
A NetSuite implementation team needs five core seats: an executive sponsor, a project lead, a functional consultant, a technical developer, and an administrator who owns the system after go-live. Most mid-market builds blend in-house hires with contract specialists. That sentence hides the whole problem. Reading it, you would think the hard part is finding five … Read more
A NetSuite functional consultant costs about $110K to $175K for a mid-to-senior hire, or roughly $95 to $170 an hour on contract. You are paying for business-process judgment and requirements skill, not SuiteScript code. Here is the part nobody puts in the job posting. The functional consultant is the person who decides what NetSuite should … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor at KORE1 A NetSuite developer job description should describe an engineering job, not a power-user job. Name the SuiteScript version, the script types, and the integrations the person will own, because the same title covers a $110K config-heavy admin and a $170K systems engineer. The template below comes … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor at KORE1 A NetSuite administrator job description should describe an ERP operations job, not an IT support job. Name the modules you run, the release cycle they will own, and a real salary band, because the same title covers a $75K power user and a $160K systems owner. … Read more
The strongest generative AI engineer interview questions in 2026 test whether a candidate can control, ground, and evaluate output the model creates, across text, images, audio, and code, when there is no correct answer to grade against. That last part is the whole problem. A retrieval system can be checked against the source document. A … Read more
