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By Gregg Flecke Three NetSuite consultant archetypes need three different interview loops. Functional consultants get module and business-process questions. Technical consultants get SuiteScript and integration scenarios. Hybrid consultants get both. Skip the generic question list. Build the loop around the role you actually have. Nearly three decades of placing IT and ERP consultants will teach … Read more
By Mike Carter A security engineer in 2026 designs, builds, and operates the controls that keep an organization’s code, cloud, network, and endpoints from getting owned, with U.S. base comp ranging from $115,000 at mid-level to $245,000 at staff, varying widely by specialization. Most postings stall because the JD names a generic “security engineer” when … Read more
By Robert Ardell Oracle database administrators in the United States earn $95,000 to $215,000 base in 2026, with a senior placed-base median around $168,000 and RAC, Exadata, and GoldenGate specialists clearing $190,000 to $230,000 before the cloud premium stacks on top. Public aggregators put the generic “DBA” average around $115,000 to $128,000, which is the … Read more
AMD Layoffs 2026: Where Semiconductor Talent Is Going AMD ran a single ~1,000-person reduction in late 2024 (about 4 percent of a 26,000-person base) and has been net-hiring engineering talent through 2026, with the larger semiconductor layoff story belonging to Intel (25,000+ positions cut), VMware-Broadcom, and the Confluent and Snowflake data-platform reset. The small AMD … Read more
By Robert Ardell Backend developer interview questions in 2026 should be scoped to one of three archetypes first: API generalist, distributed systems specialist, or data-and-storage backend. A strong loop runs twelve technical questions plus three real system design probes, weighted to the archetype. The loop that loses backend candidates does not look broken. Forty questions. … Read more
By Mike Carter Mobile app developers in the United States earn $82,000 to $215,000 base in 2026, with a mid-market median around $128,000 and senior native iOS roles in San Francisco and Seattle pushing past $190,000 before equity. Native iOS still pays a 6% to 9% premium over native Android at the senior level, cross-platform … Read more
By Robert Ardell Backend developers in the United States earn a base of $98,000 to $185,000 in 2026, with senior and staff-level total compensation running $190,000 to $360,000 once equity and bonus stack on top. Public aggregators put the average between $89,000 and $172,000, and the spread is almost entirely about which language stack, which … Read more
Scrum Master Interview Questions 2026 By Tom Kenaley Scrum master interview questions in 2026 should sort candidates into three profiles first, then run twelve foundational questions plus three or four real scenarios scoped to the team being hired for. Trivia about ceremonies is wasted slot time. The wrong loop has thirty questions, no scenarios, and … Read more
Roughly 19,000 of VMware’s 38,000 pre-acquisition employees are gone since Broadcom closed the $69 billion deal in November 2023, and the displaced engineers are not retraining for AI roles. They are landing at Nutanix migration practices, Azure VMware Solution and Google Cloud VMware Engine teams, regional MSPs absorbing midmarket workloads, and enterprise platform teams running … Read more
Salesforce Admin Interview Questions 2026 By Robert Ardell The strongest Salesforce admin interview loops in 2026 spend most of their oxygen on Flow Builder, permission set groups, and one live scenario instead of trivia about objects and tabs. Twenty-question SOQL-style quizzes do not separate a senior admin from a fast-talking mid-level. A 90-minute loop with … Read more
