MARCH 2020 CODINGAME SURVEY - THE IMPACT OF CORONAVIRUS ON THE TECH INDUSTRY

1. MARCH 2020 SURVEY THE IMPACT OF CORONAVIRUS ON THE TECH INDUSTRY IN FRANCE AND AROUND THE WORLD

2. The health crisis caused by the Coronavirus has far from spared the tech industry. Toward the end of March 2020, CodinGame surveyed over 2,700 developers from 150 countries. In this report, CodinGame provides exclusive data on the impact of the current situation on the economic stability of computer programming jobs in France and around the world. 2

3. 01 EMPLOYEES 02 FREELANCERS 03 IMPACT BY COUNTRY 3

4. 1. EMPLOYEE DEVELOPERS 4

5. Are you currently working for a company or as a freelancer developer? DISTINCTION EMPLOYEES/ FREELANCE DEVELOPERS We first divided the sample of 2,700 respondents into an employee/freelancer distribution. Employees account for 88.37% of the total sample, compared with 11.63% who are independent freelancers. 5

6. IMPACT OF THE HEALTH CRISIS ON JOB SECURITY For employees, who accounted for 88.87% of respondents, the Coronavirus health crisis has had a moderate impact, estimated at 4 on a scale of 10. On a scale of 1 to 10, how much do you estimate the current sanitary crisis has impacted your job? 90% of the reasons cited by developers surveyed relate to the need to switch to 100% remote work. Other reasons relate, to a lesser extent, to changes in priorities, budget cuts related to a decrease in activity, schedule reorganizations, wage reductions, technical unemployment or part-time work measures. 6

7. FULL-TIME, PART-TIME, TEMPORARY LAYOFFS, PERMANENT LAYOFFS Are you still employed full-time? The vast majority of developers surveyed (86.56%) declare that they are still employed full-time. Yes, I am still employed full- time No, I now work part-time Part-time work follows with 5.44% of respondents, and then temporary layoffs, which have affected 3.93% of respondents. Temporary business closures have affected 1.26% of respondents. No, I have been placed on "temporary unemployment" No, the company I work for had to shut down temporarily No, the company I work for went bankrupt Finally, 2.52% of respondents say they have been permanently laid off, and 0.30% report that the company they worked for has gone bankrupt. No, I’ve been laid off 7

8. REMOTE WORKING METHODS Does your company allow you to work from home? 98.59% of developers surveyed say they can work remotely from their homes. Only 1.41% of the sample was lacking this opportunity. 8

9. IMPACT OF THE HEALTH CRISIS ON CURRENT PROJECTS Developers interviewed estimate that the crisis is having an impact on 3 out of 10 ongoing How have the projects you are/were working on been affected by the crisis? projects. This very moderate impact includes project cancellations, schedule delays, lower productivity linked to an increase in the volume of telework meetings, the inability to conduct business trips, and cancellation of trade shows or public events. Overall, however, all respondents point to a relative ease in adapting their field to remote work. 9

10. THE IMPACT OF THE CRISIS ON DEVELOPER SALARIES Has the Coronavirus crisis impacted your salary as a developer? 65.33% of the developers interviewed say the health crisis has not had an impact on their wages. No, it did not change anything On the other hand, 26.44% of the respondents feel that it will be more difficult this year to negotiate a raise. No, but it might be more difficult to negotiate a pay raise this year Finally, 8.23% of respondents say they have been affected by a salary cut. Yes, I experienced a pay cut 10

11. DEVELOPERS AND TURNOVER: WILL IT BE AS EASY TO CHANGE JOBS? In the next few months, do you think it will be as easy as it was previously to change jobs in the tech industry? 61.88% of developers surveyed believe that it will be more difficult in the future to change jobs. 38.12% expect the situation to have no impact on their ability to change jobs. 11

12. IS DEVELOPER EMPLOYMENT UNDER THREAT? Do you feel like your job is threatened by the Covid-19 crisis? 66% of the developers surveyed consider that their jobs are threatened by the Covid-19 crisis. This is an important figure that marks a turning point in the stability bubble that computer development has evolved in over the past years. 12

13. 2. FREELANCE DEVELOPERS 13

14. FREELANCERS: MORE IMPACTED THAN EMPLOYEES IN THEIR BUSINESS How much do you estimate the current sanitary crisis has impacted your job as a freelancer? Six out of 10 freelancers surveyed (for the record, 11.63% of our total sample) estimate that the health crisis has had an impact on their jobs, compared to 4 out of 10 for employed developers. 14

15. FREELANCERS: SEVERE DIFFICULTIES FINDING NEW MISSIONS How hard is it for you to find new contracts in the current situation? Only 36.63% of freelance developers surveyed consider that the health crisis has not had an impact on their ability to land new contracts. Easy: I still have my own clients who give me new missions regularly On the other hand, 63.37% of freelancers point out that they are experiencing economic difficulties. Harder: I have difficulty finding new missions Very hard: I struggle to find new missions, and my level of activity In all, 29.63% feel it is more difficult to find new missions, and 33.74% declare that "their freelancer activity has plummeted due to the greater difficulties of finding new missions." has dropped 15

16. 3. IMPACT BY COUNTRY 16

17. Geography of respondents (Percentage of developers per country) France United States Germany United Kingdom Russia Poland India Spain Canada Ukraine Italy 2700 DEVELOPERS IN 105 COUNTRIES The 2,700 developers who responded to our survey reside in 105 countries around the world. Netherlands Romania Sweden France accounts for 19.85% of the sample, followed by the United States (13.52%), Germany (5.10%), the United Kingdom (4.90%), and Russia Brasil (4.48%). Hungary Belgium Portugal South Africa Australia Czech republic 17

18. 18 TECHNICAL UNEMPLOYMENT DEPENDING ON THE COUNTRY Technical unemployment: the most impacted countries (Percentage of developers temporary laid off per country) France Spain India Italy Russia Ukraine Belgium France is the country that has been most affected by temporary unemployment measures (9% of respondents),followed by Spain (7.69%), India (7.02%), and Italy (5.13%). United States Canada Portugal United Kingdom Germany Among the countries that have made the least use of this measure are the United Kingdom (1.96%), Germany (1.75%), and Poland (1.30%). Poland

19. Layoffs: the most impacted countries (Percentage of developers dismissed per country) LAYOFFS: THE MOST AFFECTED COUNTRIES Romania Canada France Poland India Spain As a reminder (see page 7), 2.52% of respondents have been laid off. Romania is the country most affected by layoffs (7.69% of respondents), followed by Canada (5.26%), and France, in third place (4.11% of respondents). United States Germany Netherlands Ukraine Russia United Kingdom 19

20. WAGE CUTS HAVE BEEN FAIRLY WIDELY USED Countries where wage cuts have been observed Spain Ukraine Belgium While layoffs affect only 2.52% of the developers surveyed (see page 7), wage cuts affect 8.23% of respondents (see page 10). United Kingdom South Africa Germany Poland Brasil India Portugal Romania The countries that have used this method the most are Spain (17.53%), Ukraine (17.42%), Belgium (15.38%) and the United Kingdom (15.38%). United States Italy France, which has been able to favor temporary unemployment, has used this method for only 3.96% of respondents. Netherlands France Russia Sweden Hungary 20

21. TURNOVER: COUNTRIES WHERE IT WILL BE MORE DIFFICULT TO CHANGE JOBS Countries where developers feel it will now be more difficult to change jobs (Percentage of developers feeling it will more difficult to change jobs in their country) Russia Overall, developers who have been used to being able to claim frequent and effortless job changes are now facing more difficulty in doing so. United Kingdom Hungary India Ukraine Canada United States Romania Sweden Germany Netherlands Countries in which respondents feel they will have the most difficulty changing jobs are Russia (75.31%), theUnited Kingdom (75.26%), Hungary (72.73%), and India (71.74%). Brasil Poland Spain Belgium Portugal South Africa France Concern about the possibility of being able to change jobs is limited to 46.87% of respondents residing in France. Italy Czech republic 21

22. A MORE LIMITED IMPACT OF THE CRISIS ON THE TECH INDUSTRY Overall, 79.79% of the developers interviewed believe that the Coronavirus crisis will affect the tech industry less than other industries. Do you feel like the Coronavirus crisis will affect the tech industry less than it affects other industries? Among the reasons cited, respondents point to the their trade’s adaptability to remote work and go digital. However, the collateral impact of weaker economic performance in more affected industries, such as the banking sector, is still anticipated. As one respondent noted: "As information technology professionals, not only are we in a privileged position as one of the easiest fields to shift to telecommuting, but we also have a responsibility because these jobs have become essential to the viability of a society that now relies almost exclusively on remote communications and digital resources to operate." 22

23. Conclusion Overall, the global health crisis has not entirely spared the jobs of developers. While freelance developers are taking the brunt of the crisis, employed developers are nevertheless suffering from temporary unemployment measures, wage cuts and layoffs which, for the first time in several years, have raised fears for their jobs. However, developers are aware that they are in a unique position to provide innovative solutions to support international efforts during the pandemic. Health, education, communications: they are proud to note that the present crisis has shed light on the essential role of IT to continue to run whole sectors of the economy and ensure the very survival of our societies. Telecommuting, the cloud (with the outstanding work of DevOps engineers, for example), and e-commerce all place the developer profession at the heart of the digital transformation. Many developers find that while the crisis will be fatal for fewer companies in the tech sector, it will still lead to a profound revolution in ways of working. A large number of respondents pointed out that the situation has proven that the developer field is perfectly suited to remote work, convincing companies which heretofore were wary of this work method. We’ll leave you with a final word from one of our respondents: "It's time to change the way we work. Tech industry or not: the future is in remote work." 23

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25. Founded in 2014 by Frédéric Desmoulins, Nicolas Antoniazzi and Aude Barral, CodinGame is a French start-up specializing in tech recruitment. On the CodinGame.com platform, more than 2 million code fans worldwide have honed their programming skills for free, through games and programming challenges. Companies looking to hire and retain talented developers (Bank of America, Nintendo, ebay, Adobe, Warner Bros., etc.) have turned to CodinGame to optimize their recruitment process, uncover hidden gems, and strengthen their employer brand. Everybody wins: developers land their dream jobs and businesses build strong, sustainable technical teams. 25

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