Software development hiring guides, engineering team building strategies, and technical talent insights — covering full-stack, frontend, backend, mobile, and embedded software engineering roles across all major tech stacks.
By Tom Kenaley, Co-Founder and President, KORE1 Netflix has not confirmed any layoffs, but Puck reported on October 9, 2026, that the company plans to cut about 5 percent of staff, roughly 800 of its 16,000 full-time employees, possibly before October 20 earnings. Netflix declined to comment. Nobody has said which teams. For a hiring … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 A game developer job description should name the discipline, the engine and its version, the platform, the milestone the hire lands into, what counts as a shipped credit, your generative AI policy, and a published pay range. Most postings name the engine. Then they list adjectives. Here’s … Read more
By Devin Hornick, Co-Founder, KORE1 Good game developer interview questions in 2026 make a candidate read a frame they didn’t profile, tune a jump without touching the art, and explain who wins a shot fired at 120 milliseconds of latency. Trivia about virtual destructors tells you who studied. Shipping a game is a different test. … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 A firmware engineer job description should name the silicon, the RTOS, where the product sits in its life, who owns the bootloader and the update path, the memory and power budget, and a published pay range. Most postings name the first two and stop. That is why … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 .NET 8 and .NET 9 both lose Microsoft support on November 10, 2026, and the recommended move is .NET 10, an LTS release supported until November 2028. Your apps keep running past .NET 8 end of life. What stops is security patching. The upgrade itself is a retarget and … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 Good firmware engineer interview questions in 2026 make a candidate bring up a board that has never run code, defend an update path against a power cut, and say who files the vulnerability report. Mutex versus semaphore only sorts out who revised the night before. Shipping hardware … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 Engineering capacity planning means multiplying engineers by working days, subtracting holidays, PTO, meetings, on-call, and maintenance, and comparing what remains against roadmap estimates padded by your team’s own track record. Whatever is left over is the gap. Every way of closing it arrives on a different calendar, and a … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 Useful Guidewire developer interview questions make the candidate read Gosu, trace a single commit through bundles and pre-update rules, and explain what a messaging destination does when one claim’s message fails and the retries start. Definitions of PCF files and typelists can stay on the phone screen. The panel … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 To hire a Guidewire developer in 2026, decide which application, which layer, and which deployment the seat covers, then check every certification against Guidewire’s own release rules before anyone books a panel interview. Plan on six to twelve weeks for a direct hire and four to eight … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 A Guidewire developer job description should name the application and the Guidewire Cloud release or self-managed version your team runs, list the Gosu, PCF, and integration work the developer owns, and state where business analyst work stops. Add a sentence on AI coding tools and a real … Read more
