Calling this is a "farm team" is completely bullshit. It's an apprenticeship on an existing team. If it was truly a "farm team", it would be a completely separ

Calling this is a "farm team" is completely bullshit. It's an apprenticeship on an existing team. If it was truly a "farm team", it would be a completely separate group working on a different product. Now, that would actually be something interesting to try. Throw together 2 senior level developers as "coaches" and 20 new grads all on a team working on stuff that the other dev teams don't have time for. They could be fixing bugs in products owned by another team, or working on their own completely separate projects. I'd love to see a big company try something like that!