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

My first interview was a straight forward coding question requiring me to code an algorithm on Google docs. My second interview was more in-depth and asked me several questions, starting with data questions and then moving on to algorithms questions. I panicked and blanked out during the second, more difficult question.
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Intern

Interviewed at Google

4.4
Oct 31, 2013

My first interview was a straight forward coding question requiring me to code an algorithm on Google docs. My second interview was more in-depth and asked me several questions, starting with data questions and then moving on to algorithms questions. I panicked and blanked out during the second, more difficult question.

Signed a non-disclosure agreement so can't give exact questions. Though they're pretty standard interview questions based on Data Structures, String manipulations etc. My best advice would be think about what you would like to ask the interviewer. I totally forgot to prepare questions and I felt like they were waiting for me to ask them something.
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Software Engineering Intern

Interviewed at Google

4.4
Jul 19, 2012

Signed a non-disclosure agreement so can't give exact questions. Though they're pretty standard interview questions based on Data Structures, String manipulations etc. My best advice would be think about what you would like to ask the interviewer. I totally forgot to prepare questions and I felt like they were waiting for me to ask them something.

There is a fence with n posts, each post can be painted with one of the k colors. You have to paint all the posts such that no more than two adjacent fence posts have the same color. Return the total number of ways you can paint the fence.
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Intern

Interviewed at Google

4.4
Feb 7, 2016

There is a fence with n posts, each post can be painted with one of the k colors. You have to paint all the posts such that no more than two adjacent fence posts have the same color. Return the total number of ways you can paint the fence.

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