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

One of the software engineers asked me the question about the colored chameleons bonking into each other question. Basically, there are 15 red, 17 green, and 19 blue chameleons on a desert island. Whenever two chameleons of different colors collide, they both become chameleons of the third color. Can it ever be that all the chameleons on the island are the same color?
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Web Development Intern

Interviewed at AllofE Solutions

3.5
Aug 29, 2012

One of the software engineers asked me the question about the colored chameleons bonking into each other question. Basically, there are 15 red, 17 green, and 19 blue chameleons on a desert island. Whenever two chameleons of different colors collide, they both become chameleons of the third color. Can it ever be that all the chameleons on the island are the same color?

Interview Question – two algorithm questions each phone interview. Two of them were a bit challenging . One of them was : given a value k and an array , design an efficient algorithm that should output the number of pairs that sum up to k. They wanted a n log n solution, wich i provided, but I wasn't handy with the implementation. We spent several minutes with questions like why would you want to work for us? or how did you heard and what you know about us ?
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Software Engineer Intern

Interviewed at Palantir Technologies

3.7
Nov 12, 2012

Interview Question – two algorithm questions each phone interview. Two of them were a bit challenging . One of them was : given a value k and an array , design an efficient algorithm that should output the number of pairs that sum up to k. They wanted a n log n solution, wich i provided, but I wasn't handy with the implementation. We spent several minutes with questions like why would you want to work for us? or how did you heard and what you know about us ?

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