I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (Montreal, QC) in May 2018
Interview
It was the secound round interview. The first round was telephonic.
This interview took about two hours in 4 rounds, and with 7 people. It was neutral overall.
you should be prepared for linux questions as well.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1- What is the difference between jvm, jrm , and ….?
2- What do we do in linux if system is slow?
3- What command in linux shows us the permissions? What is the sequence of each
4- What permissions it will give us if we write chmod 755
5- If we want to merge two tables, what data structure we user? Hashmap. How many? 1
6- Write algorithms on the board
I applied online. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (Budapest) in Feb 2026
Interview
Very enjoyable interview, the interviewers tried to dig deep in my skills, they weren't just passive listeners. Gave me an example of what it is like to work in this specific team.
It was for the role Software Engineer - Java Developer. Hr reached out to discuss about the role. There were 2 rounds of technical interview.
Each round will consist of 1 hour interview.And then followed by an hr round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Mainly focused on dsa and java
Asked to sort list of employees based on its id using java8.
Given an array and target, find the indices from the array whose sum is equals to the target. The solution should be in O(n)
I applied online. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (Montreal, QC) in Jun 2025
Interview
3 rounds, One online screening, then One in person interview where I was asked one medium level dsa question with whiteboarding, then there was another Online interview. The Final online interview was not that good since they were asking more about java language than the actual job, problem solving etc.
