How often I communicate my progress with my internship supervisor

 Microsoft is currently in a hybrid setting of work where employees can work remotely for some days of the week and come to the office on other days. My communication to my internship supervisor varies based on whether she is working from office or work. When she is in the office, we always have a brief meeting where I update her on my accomplished and my current tasks before I ask questions. Sometimes these meetings are debugging sessions where we try to solve any errors I have with installations or code. When she works remotely, I always send in a Microsoft Teams message highlighting what I did the previous day, the day’s tasks, and any blockers I have. We will either have a chat conversation or a call to discuss details of my mini report. Additionally, there are two weekly standup meetings with my entire team where I give brief summary of my tasks and blockers to the entire team in my organization.

I have found continuously reporting my progress to my internship supervisor very helpful to evaluate the different internship goals I set and a way to ask for help from my supervisor. My supervisor sometimes recommends people I can talk to about certain questions I ask which has helped me network with full-time engineers outside my organization. The weekly standups with the bigger meeting have helped me get answers to questions that my full-time engineers in my team have on certain parts of the project that relate to what they have worked on before. Although it was a bit challenging to have a meaningful report for the standup meetings during the start of my internship, I am finding it easier to share my progress since I am now on the development phase of my internship.