First round online hackerrank test and verbal reasoning. The technical one includes math and coding test, medium level difficulty. Math problems involve questions like linear algebra, basic probability and statistics.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (New York, NY) in Nov 2010
Interview
I applied online and got an interview call after resume screening. The interview was basic math and finance knowldege. Questions:
1. What is the current DJIA
2. NASDAQ
3. Given a 3-D grid of side 3 and where length of each unit is 1, find the number of ways of moving from coordinate 0,0,0 to 3,3,3. Assume that the two points are the 2 ends of the body diagnol.
4. A question based on birth and death processes
5. Probabilty Q based on bay's rule
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There is a big line of people waiting outside a theatre for buying tickets. The theatre owner comes out and announces that the first person to have a birthday same as someone standing before him in the line gets a free ticket. Where wil you stand to maximise your chance?
Contacted by HR, 4 rounds in total. 1st round was CV and basic statistics/coding in python. 2nd round was related to martingale/stochastics.3rd round was on SQL and puzzle. 4th was fit check with India head.
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Introduction, questions related to CV and statistics.
It was a two step process. First a phone call with HR and then a Zoom interveiw with the team. Everything was done remotely, and they were responsive and fast.
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Questions related to coding, finance, math, logic.