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.

248,183 intern interview questions shared by candidates

You have a set of envelopes of different widths and heights. One envelope can fit into another if and only if both the width and height of one envelope is greater than the width and height of the other envelope. What is the maximum number of envelopes can you russian doll?
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Software Engineering Intern

Interviewed at Palantir Technologies

3.7
Jun 3, 2013

You have a set of envelopes of different widths and heights. One envelope can fit into another if and only if both the width and height of one envelope is greater than the width and height of the other envelope. What is the maximum number of envelopes can you russian doll?

Given a string of parantheses, brackets, and curly braces, write a function that returns whether the string is well balanced, in that every left delimiter is closed by the correct right delimiter. I was asked this question by multiple interviewers, it seems like their go-to question.
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Software Engineering Intern

Interviewed at MongoDB

4
Jan 13, 2014

Given a string of parantheses, brackets, and curly braces, write a function that returns whether the string is well balanced, in that every left delimiter is closed by the correct right delimiter. I was asked this question by multiple interviewers, it seems like their go-to question.

A couple tricky questions. One required writing a modified binary search, the other dealt with data structures and how to efficiently check if a given set of numbers contained two numbers summing to some other number x.
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Software Engineer Intern

Interviewed at LinkedIn

3.8
Feb 8, 2013

A couple tricky questions. One required writing a modified binary search, the other dealt with data structures and how to efficiently check if a given set of numbers contained two numbers summing to some other number x.

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