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Southern Company interviews FAQs
Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Southern Company with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 95% positive. To compare, the company-average is 73.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Intern roles take an average of 24 days to get hired, when considering 22 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Southern Company overall takes an average of 30 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Southern Company as a Intern according to 22 Glassdoor interviews include:
Group panel interview: 29%
Background check: 18%
Drug test: 18%
One on one interview: 18%
Phone interview: 7%
Other: 4%
Personality test: 4%
Skills test: 4%
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I did the interview process through campus recruiters. The first interview is a behavioral interview and they ask you generic questions. Be sure to know a lot about the company and prepare really good questions to ask them
first interview was more to get to know you and why pick southern company, second was on teams with an engineer asking more behavioral questions, using the star method. thanks
I applied online. I interviewed at Southern Company (Atlanta, GA) in Aug 2025
Interview
Super easy it was a 2-round interview first one was a panel style interview with 5 managers, and the 2nd round was with 2 managers that you could potentially work with.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What was a mistake you made and how did you handle it?
Very simple. In person interview and then zoom interviews. No technical questions, all are behavioral, just talk about yourself. Asked to elaborate on some of my projects but nothing complex.