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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

A robot encounters a bunch of coins spread out on the ground. It examines each coin and, if the coin is heads, turns it to tails with 100% probability. If the coin is tails, it turns it to heads with 50% probability. He examines each coin once per cycle. If you have the robot cycle through the coins a very large number of times, what will eventually happen to the proportion of heads and the proportion of tails?
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Trading Analyst Intern

Interviewed at DRW

4.3
Jan 29, 2014

A robot encounters a bunch of coins spread out on the ground. It examines each coin and, if the coin is heads, turns it to tails with 100% probability. If the coin is tails, it turns it to heads with 50% probability. He examines each coin once per cycle. If you have the robot cycle through the coins a very large number of times, what will eventually happen to the proportion of heads and the proportion of tails?

Go to a bar, throw darts for 500 times, 1/2 probability hitting the target, 1 point awarded for each hit. Now getting drunk and throw for 500 times, 1/2 probability hitting the target but 3 points award now. (1) What is the expected score/number of hits? (2) If we got 1100 points, give a feasible (say 15 points) interval estimate of points? (3) How to make this calculations exact?
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Quantitative Intern

Interviewed at Jane Street

4.4
Oct 8, 2013

Go to a bar, throw darts for 500 times, 1/2 probability hitting the target, 1 point awarded for each hit. Now getting drunk and throw for 500 times, 1/2 probability hitting the target but 3 points award now. (1) What is the expected score/number of hits? (2) If we got 1100 points, give a feasible (say 15 points) interval estimate of points? (3) How to make this calculations exact?

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