Anybody in lead positions, have you had much success with work term / intern students? I’m considering offering 2 positions for students at my local college to get a couple helping hands and help these people out.

I found it hit or miss, just like any employee. Some are really talented, some just put the hours in and don't really care.

Depends. I have experience from a lot of variants. Students comes in many forms. Where we work the number of systems are in the hundreds and the business processes…not easy. And so, some of the system has large complexity and we had a hard time putting some of the interns/students there. If was just…too long a learning curve for almost all of them. Engineering students we had better experiences with since they tend to learn quicker. I guess they are both smarter and maybe more important have learned how to consume new findings.

We also do joint thesis/phd supervising which is really, really good value for money. It is also something we prioritize.