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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.

248,596 intern interview questions shared by candidates

Halloween has just happened, and all of the kids in the neighborhood have candy. 5 of them are standing in a circle comparing stashes, when one of them (kid 0) gets the idea to steal his neighbor's (kid 1's) candy. Kid 1 gets upset and runs away crying. Kid 2 sees kid 0 stealing from kid 1, thinks that he could do that too, and steals kid 3's candy. Kid 4 sees kid 2, and steals from kid 0, and so on and so forth until there's only one kid left. Given n children, find the index of the last kid remaining.
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Financial Software Developer Intern

Interviewed at Bloomberg

4★
Oct 7, 2013

Halloween has just happened, and all of the kids in the neighborhood have candy. 5 of them are standing in a circle comparing stashes, when one of them (kid 0) gets the idea to steal his neighbor's (kid 1's) candy. Kid 1 gets upset and runs away crying. Kid 2 sees kid 0 stealing from kid 1, thinks that he could do that too, and steals kid 3's candy. Kid 4 sees kid 2, and steals from kid 0, and so on and so forth until there's only one kid left. Given n children, find the index of the last kid remaining.

1) Why Bloomberg ? 2) 1 thing you would like to change about Bloomberg ? 3) They will grill you on your resume. Know every thing that you write on it. 4) Implementing queue using stack library in C ? 5) A question on BFS. 6) A puzzle - A mobile phone company is launching a new product (mobile phone) which they say is unbreakable if its thrown from a certain height (a threshold). You are given 2 phones. Find the threshold height of the product if you can throw it from any floor of a 100 story building ?
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Financial Software Developer Intern

Interviewed at Bloomberg

4★
Mar 15, 2014

1) Why Bloomberg ? 2) 1 thing you would like to change about Bloomberg ? 3) They will grill you on your resume. Know every thing that you write on it. 4) Implementing queue using stack library in C ? 5) A question on BFS. 6) A puzzle - A mobile phone company is launching a new product (mobile phone) which they say is unbreakable if its thrown from a certain height (a threshold). You are given 2 phones. Find the threshold height of the product if you can throw it from any floor of a 100 story building ?

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