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.

248,622 intern interview questions shared by candidates

you have a n by m matrix. if any row has a 0 turn all entries in that row to 0; same with columns. do this in O(1) constant space. also an interesting data-gathering-with-api question over the phone and some very basic statistics (bayes theorem, etc) for data science
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Software Engineering Intern

Interviewed at Edmodo

3.7
Nov 24, 2013

you have a n by m matrix. if any row has a 0 turn all entries in that row to 0; same with columns. do this in O(1) constant space. also an interesting data-gathering-with-api question over the phone and some very basic statistics (bayes theorem, etc) for data science

The programming question consisted of writing a program to sum up the elements in an array that are divisible by two numbers given. So let's say you have an array [1, 2, 3, ... 10]. Then given two numbers, say 3 and 5, you want to sum up the numbers divisible by 3 or 5 in that array and return the value. So it would be 3+5+6+9+10. Also he asked me some general programming questions like what inheritance is and what the difference between an object and a class is.
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Software Engineer - Intern

Interviewed at Vrbo

3.6
Oct 30, 2013

The programming question consisted of writing a program to sum up the elements in an array that are divisible by two numbers given. So let's say you have an array [1, 2, 3, ... 10]. Then given two numbers, say 3 and 5, you want to sum up the numbers divisible by 3 or 5 in that array and return the value. So it would be 3+5+6+9+10. Also he asked me some general programming questions like what inheritance is and what the difference between an object and a class is.

No real difficult questions, just asked what I was interested in doing and a little about my past experience. (internship position, so it was relatively basic.) Asked a little about basic stress/strain curves.
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Mechanical Engineer Intern

Interviewed at LORD Corporation

3.7
Jul 14, 2013

No real difficult questions, just asked what I was interested in doing and a little about my past experience. (internship position, so it was relatively basic.) Asked a little about basic stress/strain curves.

There are 100 lockers, all closed. On the first pass you alter the state of all lockers (ie closed -> open; open -> closed). On the second you alter the state of every second locker, and so on until you make 100 passes. Which lockers remain open after?
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Software Engineering Intern

Interviewed at TellApart

5
Nov 7, 2013

There are 100 lockers, all closed. On the first pass you alter the state of all lockers (ie closed -> open; open -> closed). On the second you alter the state of every second locker, and so on until you make 100 passes. Which lockers remain open after?

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