Retaining engineering talent in a chaotic market

Global Head of Engineering, Adam Wolf, explains how Bloomberg has navigated hiring and retaining engineering talent throughout a tumultuous economy, and why it’s important to contribute back to open source.

The hiring market for software developers has been particularly choppy since the Covid-19 pandemic. There has been unprecedented developer churn, a crazy hiring spree, followed swiftly by a frenzy of layoffs. “It went from what I’ll call normal, pre-pandemic, to wild in one direction, then wild in the opposite direction,” says Adam Wolf, global head of engineering at Bloomberg.

Finding enough software talent during the boom times was one thing.

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