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.

248,461 intern interview questions shared by candidates

Given two different strings, find the common characters between the two. For example if string A is "hello" and string B is "elbow" the common characters would be ['e', 'l', 'o']. Give a method that returns unique or duplicate entries.
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Software Engineer Intern

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Jan 9, 2014

Given two different strings, find the common characters between the two. For example if string A is "hello" and string B is "elbow" the common characters would be ['e', 'l', 'o']. Give a method that returns unique or duplicate entries.

describe yourself, whats your passion what do you know about oracle strengths and weaknesses when should you use your initiative and when should you ask a line managers when have you had to win someone over with a sale how do you organise yourself when have you had to work with a group and change your idea half way through
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Intern

Interviewed at Oracle

3.5
Jan 19, 2016

describe yourself, whats your passion what do you know about oracle strengths and weaknesses when should you use your initiative and when should you ask a line managers when have you had to win someone over with a sale how do you organise yourself when have you had to work with a group and change your idea half way through

If you had the coordinates of all the stars within a galaxy (or something along those lines) and you wanted to find all of the ones within a certain distance from earth how would you do it? Asked to code the classes/data structures for this.
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Intern

Interviewed at Cisco

4.1
Jan 1, 2017

If you had the coordinates of all the stars within a galaxy (or something along those lines) and you wanted to find all of the ones within a certain distance from earth how would you do it? Asked to code the classes/data structures for this.

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