Building Developers Lessons Learned from Hungry Academy
summary
A six‑month, company‑run apprenticeship with LivingSocial converts novices into hires: 650 applicants yield 24 selected (3.6%) via video screens and an LSAT‑style aptitude task; trainees are paid LivingSocial contractors, spend classroom time plus pair and team projects, and cover six weeks pure Ruby, Sequel, APIs, Ops, JavaScript, HTML/CSS and websockets. Capstone builds include a SpeakerDeck + audio/video + chat websocket integration, and outcome is concrete: 22 placed in full‑time engineering with the rest absorbed into other company roles.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:05Hungry Academy origins
- 2:10Recruitment process
- 3:54Assessing aptitude
- 5:39Cohort selection
- 6:42Program structure
- 8:10Project-driven learning
- 9:12Outcomes and plans
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