Hungry Academy

This is a great idea for a company that’s struggling to find developers (and which ones aren’t?) yet has the resources to mount a complicated, expensive training program like this.

There are issues that would need to be ironed out, like what kind of starting salary people are going to be asked to take, and what their options are to pay back Living Social if they don’t want to take the offer, or end up not working at Living Social for 18 months.

Even though I consider myself a pretty good developer, I would love doing something like this. A while ago, I had an idea to try to do a few months of work at a series of top development shops for the experience of it. That would be cool, but it’s a little impractical.