InfluxData's remote internship program was a success, with 5 interns hired in 2019, and the company views interns as open source community contributors, internal team members, and students, providing guidance and mentorship to help them grow. To succeed with remote interns, InfluxData found that preventing isolation is key, hiring interns in cohorts of at least two, assigning individual mentors, and developing new managers who can lead a separate planning/scrum meeting every day. Team work principles include not wasting too much time on training, assigning large epics filled with small tasks to the group, doing daily check-ins, having code reviews with two reviewers, and occasionally doing live reviews. The company also found that having a mid-season gathering at a central location was highly successful in team-building and friendship-building.