Intern Interviews

Intern Interview Questions

An intern works in a professional environment to gain practical, meaningful, and work-related experience in their chosen field or career. Interns are trainees who sign up to work for an organization for a short period of time to gain experience. Interns may be unpaid, partially paid, or paid.

Top Intern Interview Questions & How To Answer

Question 1

Question #1: Can you tell me about a time you failed something, either in school or at a job?

How to answer
How to answer: This open-ended question is designed to show how you recognize and grow from failure. Be sure to speak to how you identified the failure and the steps you took to ensure that you met success in the future. Discuss how you were able to reflect on the situation in order to grow from it.
Question 2

Question #2: How did you land in this particular field?

How to answer
How to answer: This open-ended question lets you share your passion for your chosen career. Discuss how you first learned about the field, the steps you took to put yourself on the path to this career, and what drives you to want to work in this field. Ensure that you answer this question with a visible enthusiasm for your chosen career.
Question 3

Question #3: What do you hope to gain from this experience?

How to answer
How to answer: This open-ended question allows you the opportunity to talk about the knowledge and experience you hope to get from working as an intern for their company. Be as specific to their company as possible.

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Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Apr 7, 2017

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Second Round: This was a bit difficult. The question is to generate sample math problems(additions) for a 8th grade student and the results should be stored in such a way that they can be printed when required. Sample problem is 7+8=_____ The constraints are:- 1) The numbers that are to be added should be <=9 2) The result should be <=17
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Software Development Engineer Intern

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Jan 20, 2014

Second Round: This was a bit difficult. The question is to generate sample math problems(additions) for a 8th grade student and the results should be stored in such a way that they can be printed when required. Sample problem is 7+8=_____ The constraints are:- 1) The numbers that are to be added should be <=9 2) The result should be <=17

Main question was verifying whether a binary tree was a BST, given the function header that looked like public boolean isBST(root). He stated no other functions could be created and that child nodes did not have links to their parents.
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Software Engineer Intern

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Apr 2, 2014

Main question was verifying whether a binary tree was a BST, given the function header that looked like public boolean isBST(root). He stated no other functions could be created and that child nodes did not have links to their parents.

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