I generally agree. One thing I'm still not sold on is that interns are a net loss. They would often get to do work that was novel to them and tedious to your f

I generally agree. One thing I'm still not sold on is that interns are a net loss. They would often get to do work that was novel to them and tedious to your full-time developers. Work that was nice-to-have but no-one-wants-to-do. It's hard to put a price tag on it. Especially with externalities that come with that kind of work; bad ones like killing employee morale for whoever has to do it and good ones like increasing the team's productivity. Interns, in my experience, are not prone to the former yet still contribute to the latter. Examples of such work are things like updating tests and documentation or tackling some not-so-urgent tech debt. Assuming that they still create tech debt of their own because they probably were (and we all are, aren't we?) my experience has been positive.