It sounds like very bad management, > “That meeting allowed me to see what he thought of my work during the internship and how he interpreted it all. There wer

It sounds like very bad management, > “That meeting allowed me to see what he thought of my work during the internship and how he interpreted it all. There were discrepancies between what I thought and what he thought, which sometimes was frustrating, but it showed me how valuable effective communication can be.” This type of expectation discrepancy should have been surfaced sooner and in smaller, iterative and isolated pieces that could allow the intern to take action to rectify it while any given item was still small. It’s the manager’s job to prevent it from adding up to a big surprise that it wasn’t considered good enough. But the intern is being made to pay for it.