Actuarial Internship - Summer 2027 - Hybrid
Posted Sep 4, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Which actuarial exams have you passed or are you studying for, and how do you fit studying around school?
What they are checking: Whether they are committed to the exam path and have the discipline that pay and progress here depend on.
Tell me about a project where you used Excel, R, Python or SQL to analyze data. What was the hardest part?
What they are checking: Whether they have real hands-on data skills and can describe a technical struggle honestly.
Tell me about a time you had to explain a technical result to people without a math background.
What they are checking: Whether they can translate numbers into plain meaning, a skill actuaries need with product and finance partners.
Tell me about a mistake you made in your coursework or a past job that someone else caught. How did you respond?
What they are checking: Whether they take correction well and build checks into their work, which matters when numbers drive decisions.
What would you do
Your model output looks off, but it ran without errors. How do you figure out what's wrong?
What they are checking: Whether they check reasonableness and trace inputs step by step instead of trusting a result because it ran.
You get two tasks from two different actuaries, both due Friday, and you can only finish one well. What do you do?
What they are checking: Whether they raise the conflict early and let the right people set priority rather than delivering two rushed pieces.
About the work
Explain what a reserve is for a life or property and casualty insurer to someone who has never worked in insurance.
What they are checking: Whether they understand a core actuarial idea well enough to explain it simply, which actuaries do constantly.
How would you explain the difference between pricing a product and valuing the liabilities for products already sold?
What they are checking: Whether they see how pricing and valuation answer different questions with different assumptions.
If claims experience is running higher than what was assumed in pricing, what might be causing that?
What they are checking: Whether they can think through random variation, mix changes, data errors and trend before jumping to conclusions.
TruStage serves credit union members. How do you think that customer base might shape the insurance products it offers?
What they are checking: Whether they have thought about the company's actual business and how its market affects actuarial work.
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