[PopeDotNinja]

After struggling to hire top-notch engineers in the bay area as salaries started to spiral beyond reason, we decided to conduct a radical experiment in trying to train overseas developer talent on our tech stack before hiring them.

TL;DR -- They have rebranded unpaid internships.

[opportune]

Even worse, they did for people likely much poorer than the average unpaid intern in the US and the main value proposition was probably them dangling visas