IT hiring strategies, technology talent acquisition guides, and practical advice for employers recruiting software engineers, cloud architects, DevOps engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity analysts, and other in-demand IT professionals.
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 A product team is built around trios of a product manager, a product designer, and an engineering lead, each trio owning one outcome, and those trios roll up to a head of product or a Chief Product Officer as the company scales. The org chart under that … Read more
By Gregg Flecke, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, KORE1 An AI research scientist in 2026 runs $160,000 to $250,000 base for most companies, with frontier-lab total packages past $600,000, and the first question is whether you need a true researcher or an applied scientist wearing the title. That gap is the whole ballgame. Get it wrong … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 Strong Go developer interview questions in 2026 test five things: concurrency with goroutines and channels, idiomatic interfaces and error handling, the standard library, production judgment, and whether the candidate writes simple Go or ports habits from another language. Most loops skip straight to a syntax quiz and … Read more
A cloud architect designs and governs an organization’s cloud environment across AWS, Azure, or GCP, owning the migration strategy, security guardrails, and cost model that engineering teams build within, and earns $130,000 to $205,000 base in the U.S. in 2026. That is a design-and-governance job, not a build-and-operate one, and the gap between those two … Read more
How Long Does It Take to Hire a Product Manager in 2026? Hiring a product manager in 2026 takes about 7 to 11 weeks through an internal search and 3 to 5 weeks through a specialized agency, with seniority, product surface, and interview-loop length driving most of the spread. Generalist and mid-level roles close faster. … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 Hiring a principal product manager in 2026 means budgeting $210,000 to $300,000 base, or $350,000 to $700,000 total at large tech firms, and understanding you are buying a top-of-the-ladder individual contributor, not a manager. That last part is where most of these hires go sideways. A principal … Read more
An enterprise architect owns the technology strategy for an entire organization, aligning every major system, platform, and IT investment with the business roadmap three to five years out, and earns $150,000 to $230,000 base in the U.S. in 2026. That is a different job from a solutions architect, and the confusion between the two is … Read more
The security engineer interview questions that work in 2026 test whether someone can design security into a system before it ships, reason through an unfamiliar attack, and separate the two risks that matter from the thirty that don’t. Framework recall barely moves the needle. What you’re really screening for is judgment under pressure, and that … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, Senior Partner and President, KORE1 Hiring a cloud security engineer in 2026 means budgeting roughly $130,000 to $215,000 base for mid-to-senior talent, naming your primary cloud before you post, and expecting a two-to-four-week search in a market where almost none of these people are unemployed. The money is the part everyone fixates … Read more
How Long Does It Take to Hire a Data Scientist in 2026? Hiring a data scientist takes about 7 to 12 weeks through an internal search in 2026, and 4 to 6 weeks through a specialized agency, with production requirements and seniority driving most of the spread. Applied and analytics roles close faster because the … Read more
