I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Morningstar (Chicago, IL) in Mar 2016
Interview
I went through a recruiter. I did an initial phone screen and then an on site. I was led to believe that they weren't hiring anyone until a manager got back in the office. In the mean time, they hired two of my friends. They had lied to me several times and they had broken the relationship. It has been over a month since I interviewed and they still won't give me an answer or any feedback. I will never work for this organization or any other organization that treats applicants as poorly as Morningstar does.
round 1 Is a 30 minute interview with the senior manager, basically does a deep dive into projects and skills in your resume and then technical questions. round 2 Is onsite
I asked the HR contact what type of questions/assessment the interview would consist of, and they said whiteboarding technical problems. The actual interview surprisingly was questions about my experiences instead.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How did you and your team for this project on your resume decide on your tech stack?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Morningstar (London, England) in Nov 2025
Interview
2 hour interview with different stages:
- review of a take home technical task
- technical questions
- coding problem
- design challenge
- team fit
- questions
I didn't pass the technical part - so never got to team fit/questions stage.
But the first part felt unpleasant due to interviewers attitude.
There were 2 interviewers (Senior Software Engineers) who introduced themselves, but never given me time to introduce myself as well - I had to take initiative myself to do that.
I am not a star developer and I can understand I might have made not a very good impression, but this does not entitle interviewers to treat me without respect. In the end it's them who invited me to the interview.
Sometimes it felt like they didn't even listen to what I was answering and then telling me things as if I didn't told same things before.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Access modifiers in C++
- Polymorphism in C++
- Templates in C++
- Difference between stack and heap
- Difference between malloc and new
- RAAI
- What is deadlock