Tom Kenaley
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 The CFO interview questions that matter in 2026 test which kind of CFO your company needs, whether the candidate knows their current numbers without notes, and how they would run the next thirteen weeks of cash. Nobody reaches a CFO final round without knowing what EBITDA is. … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 The best blockchain developer interview questions put real contract code in front of the candidate and ask who can change it, where money could leave, and which textbook answers stopped being true after Ethereum’s 2025 Pectra upgrade. Save definitions of consensus and hashing for a recruiter call. … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 An AI agent engineer in the U.S. earns $155,000 to $210,000 in base pay at mid-level and $210,000 to $290,000 at senior in 2026, and what the agent is allowed to change moves the number more than years do. Staff and lead engineers start near $290,000 base. … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, Co-Founder and President, KORE1 To hire an Informatica developer in 2026, first work out which of the four Informatica products you actually run, then price and screen against that one. Most U.S. hires land between $94,000 and $170,000. The spread has very little to do with seniority. It tracks which product sits … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 A TypeScript developer job description works when it tells candidates where the code runs, which TypeScript and Node.js versions ship to production, how strict the compiler settings are, and what the base salary is. Pay is the one most postings get right, often because a state law … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 In 2026 a SOC analyst’s base salary runs from about $58,000 for a new Tier 1 hire to roughly $145,000 for an experienced Tier 3, with most Tier 2 investigators paid $80,000 to $110,000. The $129,180 figure most salary pages quote is the federal median for every … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 A good Python developer job description says which kind of Python the job is (web services, data pipelines, machine learning, or automation), which Python version and framework run in production, and what the base pay is. As for money, mid-level base runs about $100,000 to $132,000 this … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President & Senior Partner, KORE1 The best product marketing manager interview questions make a candidate produce evidence, like the last lost deal they heard, a claim they dropped because nobody could prove it, and a launch they deliberately kept small. Describing a positioning process is easy. Everyone on your shortlist has a … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 An NLP engineer job description works when it names the text the hire will process, the languages and daily volume, whether labeled training data exists, and whether the seat fine-tunes its own models or builds around LLM APIs. Pay? Figure $130,000 to $175,000 base for mid-level in … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 Year-end budget hiring works when contract talent starts early enough to bill real hours before the fiscal year closes, because contract spend lands as hours are worked, not when a purchase order is signed. A senior contractor who starts in the third week of October bills about … Read more
