Intern Interview Questions

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.

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Top Intern Interview Questions & How To Answer

Here are three top intern interview questions and how to answer them:

Question #1: Can you tell me about a time you failed something, either in school or at a job?

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: How did you land in this particular field?

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: What do you hope to gain from this experience?

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.

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LinkedIn
Data Scientist Intern was asked...February 25, 2012

Find the second largest element in a Binary Search Tree

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The above answer is also wrong; Node findSceondLargest(Node root) { // If tree is null or is single node only, return null (no second largest) if (root==null || (root.left==null && root.right==null)) return null; Node parent = null, child = root; // find the right most child while (child.right!=null) { parent = child; child = child.right; } // if the right most child has no left child, then it's parent is second largest if (child.left==null) return parent; // otherwise, return left child's rightmost child as second largest child = child.left; while (child.right!=null) child = child.right; return child; } Less

find the right most element. If this is a right node with no children, return its parent. if this is not, return the largest element of its left child. Less

One addition is the situation where the tree has no right branch (root is largest). In this special case, it does not have a parent. So it's better to keep track of parent and current pointers, if different, the original method by the candidate works well, if the same (which means the root situation), find the largest of its left branch. Less

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Medtronic

You are in a boat in a pool with a rock in your hand. You throw the rock into the pool. Does the water level rise, drop, or stay the same?

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If the rock were neutrally buoyant the water level would remain the same. It is heavier than water which causes it to displace more than its own volume while in the boat compared to at the bottom of the lake. Therefore the water level of the lake would go down. Less

These answers are troubling. The only correct answer so far is Ben. The water level goes down. Less

The weight of the boat plus you plus the rock has already displaced the height of the water. The only time the water level will change will be when the rock is mid air. Less

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Target

Describe when you lead a team or group and what worked well.

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have a detailed response that makes yourself look good. pretty basic.

Showcase your leadership, people management, and communication skills. Sports teams or group projects from school are good examples. Less

The University of Vermont Medical Center

Why do you want to work in the OR? How do you handle stressful situations? Positive patient experience, negative patient experience, how do you handle each? How do you handle personal and work conflicts? The general nursing interview questions, with a few OR specific.

2 Answers

OR is the place were I can give my continuous concentration and be with the patient internally, I would like to talk to my co workers in stress full situations. I believe staying with out bias would be great and easy to cope while having different patient experiences. I would try not to bring my personal conflicts inside the hospital door so that I could ace on my work conflicts by using simple coping mechanisms , reading contents of medications which I use. Less

OR is the place were I can give my continuous concentration and be with the patient internally, I would like to talk to my co workers in stress full situations. I believe staying with out bias would be great and easy to cope while having different patient experiences. I would try not to bring my personal conflicts inside the hospital door so that I could ace on my work conflicts by using simple coping mechanisms , reading contents of medications which I use. Less

ConocoPhillips

How have you used microsoft excel in to help solve a problem.

1 Answers

Kept my hours when doing privated contracting. Also, kept items expenses.

BuildASign.com

Name a time when you motivated others to do well.

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Working hard to get into the University of Texas motivated my brother to work hard as well. We both have accomplished our goals and now know the meaning of motivation. Less

BNY Mellon

What is a mutual fund?

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Mutual funds allow you to put your money together with other investors to buy stocks or bonds. This is a good option for smaller investors to diversify investments. Less

Lippert Components

Which costs less: glass or stainless steel? Simple question but unexpected

1 Answers

glass because of the handling costs that are associated with it since it takes less force to break glass. Less

Wall Einhorn & Chernitzer

Why did you decide to go into accounting?

1 Answers

I chose accounting because it is a basic tool for business so it is a good segue for numerous other paths that I could take. It's a stable choice since businesses will always seek advice from accountants. I'm good with numbers, organization, and working with spreadsheets. Less

Cameron

If I were to give you a project where you have 100 piece product, how would you go about finding suppliers?

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First, I would ask for more specifics as to what are the most important factors the organization is looking for, then I would search through the established SAP supplier database to find any matches. Matches would consist of Quality as number 1 then Reliability as number 2 and finally cost as number 3. Less

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