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.

248,188 intern interview questions shared by candidates

I don't remember the hardest one, so here is one of the other questions from the perspective of the interviewer. Here is a coin game as follows. We each have three fair coins, and we flip all of them at once. After we flip them, we look at the outcomes. If we have the same number of heads out of our own coins I pay you $1 and if we have a different number you pay me $2. Do you want to play this game?
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Intern

Interviewed at Susquehanna International Group

3.8
Oct 16, 2012

I don't remember the hardest one, so here is one of the other questions from the perspective of the interviewer. Here is a coin game as follows. We each have three fair coins, and we flip all of them at once. After we flip them, we look at the outcomes. If we have the same number of heads out of our own coins I pay you $1 and if we have a different number you pay me $2. Do you want to play this game?

We have a tricycle and we are going to travel on it for a thousand miles. We also have two spare tires with us. If you want each of them to be worn the same by the end of the journey, what is minimum number of stops you have to make in order to achieve this?
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Interviewed at Jane Street

4.4
Dec 9, 2017

We have a tricycle and we are going to travel on it for a thousand miles. We also have two spare tires with us. If you want each of them to be worn the same by the end of the journey, what is minimum number of stops you have to make in order to achieve this?

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