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.
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
By Gregg Flecke, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner at KORE1 Hiring a GRC analyst in 2026 means naming the framework you answer to first, budgeting roughly $95,000 to $160,000 for a mid-to-senior hire, and planning a four-to-eight-week search in a market where compliance talent rarely sits idle. The pay is the easy question. The hard one … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 Building a product team from scratch means hiring in sequence, not all at once: one senior generalist product manager first, after product-market fit, then a product designer, then a small trio, long before you hire a VP. Order is the whole game. Get it right and each … Read more
What’s Changing in Insurtech Hiring in 2026? Insurtech hiring in 2026 is moving money and headcount away from traditional insurance roles and toward data, AI, software, and cybersecurity talent, as automated underwriting and claims tools absorb work people used to do by hand. The carriers and startups winning this year are not adding more of … Read more
By Gregg Flecke, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner at KORE1 When you’re not technical, you hire engineers by borrowing the judgment you don’t have, through a paid work-sample test, a trusted engineer sitting in on your interviews, and reference checks that dig into what the person actually shipped. You will not learn to read code in … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, Senior Partner and President, KORE1 A group product manager runs a small team of PMs while still owning strategy for a product area, and costs $190,000 to $285,000 base in 2026, or $310,000 to $560,000 all in at public tech firms. That double duty is the whole job, and it is also … Read more
How Long Does It Take to Hire a Machine Learning Engineer in 2026? Hiring a machine learning engineer in 2026 takes roughly 8 to 14 weeks on an internal search, and 4 to 7 weeks through a specialized agency, with production ML infrastructure and seniority accounting for most of the range. Applied roles on an … Read more
A strong prompt engineer job description makes clear the job is building and measuring LLM-powered systems, not writing clever prompts. It names the models and the evaluation tooling, and it posts a band, because the same title covers a $110K content-ops seat and a $400K research one. The template below comes from prompt and applied-AI … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President & Senior Partner, KORE1 The Workday consultant interview questions that predict a strong hire in 2026 test configuration judgment under pressure, not memorized terminology. Hand a candidate a business process that routes to the wrong approver and watch them reason toward the fix. Ask why an integration failed overnight with payroll … Read more
By Gregg Flecke, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, KORE1 The machine learning engineer career path runs from junior to principal over roughly a decade, starting near $110,000 base and passing $250,000 by senior, before it splits into a hands-on technical track and a people-management track. What sets it apart from the AI engineer job next door … Read more
