Bending Spoons Opens a Warsaw Office After 50,000 Applications from Poland
Bending Spoons Opens a Warsaw Office After 50,000 Applications from Poland
September 23, 2026
Bending Spoons opened an office in Warsaw on 21 September 2026, adding Poland to a footprint that already covers Milan, London and Madrid. The Italian technology group reports around 50,000 applications from Poland in 2026, more than double its 2025 total. The Warsaw site will hire locally for engineering, AI research, data, design, and product roles.
About Bending Spoons
Bending Spoons is an Italian technology group, headquartered in Milan and listed on Nasdaq as BSP, that acquires digital businesses and rebuilds them rather than launching products of its own. The Bending Spoons portfolio includes Airtable, AOL, Brightcove, Eventbrite, Evernote, Tractive, Vimeo and WeTransfer.
The acquisition model shapes what Bending Spoons does after a purchase. The company describes transformations that reorganise teams, overhaul technology, redesign user interfaces and accelerate product development, with AI used both as part of the target state and as a tool for getting there.
Before Warsaw, Bending Spoons operated from Milan, London and Madrid. The Warsaw opening is another node in an integration network serving the portfolio, rather than a standalone outpost.
New Office in Warsaw: Focus on University and Mobility
Bending Spoons located the Warsaw office in Śródmieście, the city centre, within walking distance of the University of Warsaw and the Presidential Palace. The company is recruiting locally for software engineering, AI research, product and growth management, data and design, and marked the opening with a networking event for the Warsaw technology community.
Mobility is part of the offer. Bending Spoons encourages all new hires to spend their first months in Milan, with travel and accommodation fully covered. For hires relocating to Warsaw, Bending Spoons covers relocation expenses including travel, shipping and up to four months of temporary accommodation, and also covers the cost of commuting to the office.
50,000 applications from Poland
The 50,000-application figure matters because it measures inbound interest rather than headcount. Bending Spoons reports roughly 50,000 applications from Poland in 2026, more than twice the whole of 2025. At that scale, the hiring problem changes shape: the constraint moves from finding candidates to selecting among them.
Andrea Maiorana, Talent data lead at Bending Spoons, pointed out:
“[…] What stands out isn’t just the volume. Many Polish candidates are among the strongest we see in our selection process, and the student talent has been particularly impressive. More than half of our recent hires from Poland were still studying when they applied.”
Bending Spoons built the Polish pipeline mostly through university-facing programmes that ran before the office opened. In September 2026, the company hosted First Ascent Poland, a three-day retreat in Milan for leading technology students and recent graduates from the country. Bending Spoons also supported the 2026 ICPC Central Europe Regional Contest and will continue the partnership in 2027.
Is Warsaw becoming a default choice for foreign engineering teams?
Warsaw now appears in a run of 2026 location decisions made on talent access rather than labour cost. Bending Spoons follows HelloFresh, which chose Warsaw for an AI and engineering hub, the European Space Agency, which opened a security centre in the city, and many more companies. All of their announcements cite access to engineers rather than savings.
But why? Warsaw placed third among Europe’s major cities in the European Cities and Regions of the Future 2025 report by fDi Intelligence, behind London and Dublin, up from fourth a year earlier. Also, the academic base supports that position. Mazowieckie voivodeship, where Warsaw is located, hosts 287,800 students, more than any other Polish region
The Bending Spoons announcement adds that detail to that pattern: the student pipeline. More than half of the company’s recent Polish hires applied while still in education, and the recruitment channels it names are a programming contest, a scholarship programme and an invitation-only retreat. The office address, a short walk from the University of Warsaw, follows the same logic.
Bending Spoons Opens a Warsaw Office After 50,000 Applications from Poland
Bending Spoons opened an office in Warsaw on 21 September 2026, adding Poland to a footprint that already covers Milan, London and Madrid. The Italian technology group reports around 50,000 applications from Poland in 2026, more than double its 2025 total. The Warsaw site will hire locally for engineering, AI research, data, design, and product roles.
About Bending Spoons
Bending Spoons is an Italian technology group, headquartered in Milan and listed on Nasdaq as BSP, that acquires digital businesses and rebuilds them rather than launching products of its own. The Bending Spoons portfolio includes Airtable, AOL, Brightcove, Eventbrite, Evernote, Tractive, Vimeo and WeTransfer.
The acquisition model shapes what Bending Spoons does after a purchase. The company describes transformations that reorganise teams, overhaul technology, redesign user interfaces and accelerate product development, with AI used both as part of the target state and as a tool for getting there.
Before Warsaw, Bending Spoons operated from Milan, London and Madrid. The Warsaw opening is another node in an integration network serving the portfolio, rather than a standalone outpost.
New Office in Warsaw: Focus on University and Mobility
Bending Spoons located the Warsaw office in Śródmieście, the city centre, within walking distance of the University of Warsaw and the Presidential Palace. The company is recruiting locally for software engineering, AI research, product and growth management, data and design, and marked the opening with a networking event for the Warsaw technology community.
Mobility is part of the offer. Bending Spoons encourages all new hires to spend their first months in Milan, with travel and accommodation fully covered. For hires relocating to Warsaw, Bending Spoons covers relocation expenses including travel, shipping and up to four months of temporary accommodation, and also covers the cost of commuting to the office.
50,000 applications from Poland
The 50,000-application figure matters because it measures inbound interest rather than headcount. Bending Spoons reports roughly 50,000 applications from Poland in 2026, more than twice the whole of 2025. At that scale, the hiring problem changes shape: the constraint moves from finding candidates to selecting among them.
Andrea Maiorana, Talent data lead at Bending Spoons, pointed out:
Bending Spoons built the Polish pipeline mostly through university-facing programmes that ran before the office opened. In September 2026, the company hosted First Ascent Poland, a three-day retreat in Milan for leading technology students and recent graduates from the country. Bending Spoons also supported the 2026 ICPC Central Europe Regional Contest and will continue the partnership in 2027.
Is Warsaw becoming a default choice for foreign engineering teams?
Warsaw now appears in a run of 2026 location decisions made on talent access rather than labour cost. Bending Spoons follows HelloFresh, which chose Warsaw for an AI and engineering hub, the European Space Agency, which opened a security centre in the city, and many more companies. All of their announcements cite access to engineers rather than savings.
But why? Warsaw placed third among Europe’s major cities in the European Cities and Regions of the Future 2025 report by fDi Intelligence, behind London and Dublin, up from fourth a year earlier. Also, the academic base supports that position. Mazowieckie voivodeship, where Warsaw is located, hosts 287,800 students, more than any other Polish region
The Bending Spoons announcement adds that detail to that pattern: the student pipeline. More than half of the company’s recent Polish hires applied while still in education, and the recruitment channels it names are a programming contest, a scholarship programme and an invitation-only retreat. The office address, a short walk from the University of Warsaw, follows the same logic.
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