The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (Mumbai) in Sept 2009
Interview
I have never seen a more unprofessional interview than the one conducted by Morgan Stanley. I had first two rounds of telephonic interviews and then no one came back with the feedback. Then suddenly after two weeks, I got a call for face-to-face interview. I was interviewed by various people (around 7-8 people) for about 8-9 hours and at the end of it I was told they will get back to me the next day. Next day I got a call from the HR saying I was through with the interviews and selected by Morgan Stanley. I was obviously happy. Same day, HR came back to me saying that I will have one more call but it will be a mere formality and not a filtering round. I took the call and then no one came back to me for a week. Later on repeated inquires, HR came back to me saying that they have decided not to go ahead with my candidature. This is the first time I have heard about a company backing out after promising an offer. I would rate my experience with Morgan Stanley as highly unprofessional.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Syntax based questions mostly. They were finicky about the candidate knowing the exact syntax.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (Boston, MA) in Dec 2021
Interview
Round 1: HackeRrank test Round 2: Phone interview, coding concept and database knowledge Round 3: final with three interviewers, 3 code rounds using HackeRrank, around 4 hours interview, 2 coding problems, then the following three interviewers will ask questions on your solution
First, there was an online aptitude and coding test. Then, the first interview round was based on OOPs, Sorting algorithms, and Tree Traversals (iteratively), Basics of functions and some error recognition. Which data structure is used to store function calls.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Introduce Yourself.
2. Write code for heapify function.
3. What are virtual functions
4. Write a pure virtual functions
5. Pre order traversal iteratively
It consists of an online assessment, a one-round phone interview plus the final interview. The final interview had three rounds, among which two were technical and the other was behavioral.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
phone interview focused on general knowledge for an SDE student, like a programming language, network, database... The final round involved general knowledge as well as programming problems.
