Title: I&#x27;m a senior undergraduate Computer Science student, and I recently began a paid internship position working remotely with a startup during school.
It&#x27;s been a bit of a rough start, and I&#x27;m having trouble getting clear tasks with well-defined requirements. The company has only begun working with interns in the past few months, and had very little in the way of established workflows. I effectively report directly to the CEO, who is an alumnus of my school and doesn&#x27;t seem to have experience managing software projects. They only started using task tracking and workplace communication tools in the past few weeks, and so far I&#x27;ve primarily communicated via email and calls. I&#x27;m beginning to feel quite useless, as I have no real idea of what&#x27;s expected of me or what the acceptance criteria are for the feature I&#x27;ve been tasked with implementing. Said feature had a rather unrealistic deadline to build from scratch, even for a professional working full-time, let alone a college intern working remotely for maybe a dozen hours a week. There are a number of other things regarding the company that strike me as red flags, and at this point I&#x27;m not sure it was a good idea to accept the position. I&#x27;m interested in the work being done though, and I think it could be a beneficial arrangement for all involved if the managerial&#x2F;logistical issues can be sorted out.<p>So how can I make the most of this experience and provide as much value to the company as possible?
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