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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.

248,622 intern interview questions shared by candidates

You're hosting a party, and you have 1000 bottles of wine. 24 hours before, you realize that exactly one bottle is poisoned. You have 10 test rats, each of which can taste any number of the bottles of wine before the party; a rat will die before the party if and only if it tastes a poisoned bottle. How will you use the test rats to identify as many non-poisoned bottles to retain for consumption at the party? (e.g. have one rat taste one bottle. If it doesn't die, you've saved one bottle for the party. This is not the best strategy, by the way)
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Trader Intern

Interviewed at Old Mission

4.2★
Jan 2, 2014

You're hosting a party, and you have 1000 bottles of wine. 24 hours before, you realize that exactly one bottle is poisoned. You have 10 test rats, each of which can taste any number of the bottles of wine before the party; a rat will die before the party if and only if it tastes a poisoned bottle. How will you use the test rats to identify as many non-poisoned bottles to retain for consumption at the party? (e.g. have one rat taste one bottle. If it doesn't die, you've saved one bottle for the party. This is not the best strategy, by the way)

Given an main method which has arraylist initialized with the numbers 1,4,3,2, in that order, which then prints the array (using a combination of iterators and arraylist.get), print the numbers in order. The iterators and Lists were their own class files, which you were allowed to change. Hard to explain, but the solutions pretty obvious when looking at the code
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Intern

Interviewed at UKG

3.2★
Feb 13, 2013

Given an main method which has arraylist initialized with the numbers 1,4,3,2, in that order, which then prints the array (using a combination of iterators and arraylist.get), print the numbers in order. The iterators and Lists were their own class files, which you were allowed to change. Hard to explain, but the solutions pretty obvious when looking at the code

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