Morgan Stanley Senior Associate Interview Questions

Hr round Technical interview onsite technical interview interview was more political and he rejected me though i answered all his questions so it is purely depends on luck getting right interview panel

2 rounds in total for whole interview process Round 1 - Derivative products previously worked on and products related to profile Round 2 - Previous work experience and any offer in hand.

when you submit your resume, they will reach out to you to invite you to an phone interview and later, if you have passed that, you will be invited to an onsite interview, ask for some basic leetcode style question and some system design.

Overall the interview experience is very good. It is a drive conducted by Morgan Stanley and all tech and managerial rounds completed on the same day. It consisted of total 5 rounds. One online hacker rank test, 2 technical round, 1 managerial round and finally one HR round which was conducted after 3 days of clearing technical and manager rounds. Received offer letter in 5 days after the HR round.

I was approached by a third party consultation agency to setup an interview at MS. The interviews were good. Since the role was of non- market risk, a lot of qualitative questions were asked instead of quantitative. After 3 months of interview with 6 rounds, many of them taken up by onshore VPs, they extended me an offer. The offer was way below my expectations hence I asked them if they could do some adjustments to the offer. HR said that she will hand it over to business for approval. After that conversation, no communication was received from their end for another 3 months until one day I called hiring manager and he told me that they already hired someone and was surprised that HR did not inform me about this. I sent couple of emails for an update. No reply to those. Calls were not answered. Such level of unprofessionalism is never expected of Morgan Stanley. They don't even have basic courtesy to provide a closure to a candidate who completed a 3 month interview process with 6 rounds.

Round 1: Online test which had around 15 questions. Two easy-medium level programming questions, and the rest on theoretical questions based on Java, multithreading, etc. Round 2. Online Interview. One problem solving question. It was a complex mathematical function, the task was the decode it and figure out what it is doing. Round3. Online Interview. One system Design questions and some follow up questions. Round 4. Managerial Round.

Went through the whole interview process which was about 5 interviews meeting with various members of the team. All went well. It had been about a month and I get an email from an internal recruiter asking if I’m interested in an analyst role (which is a reduction in level), and I advised I was still waiting to hear about the role I already interviewed for. Next day I get an automated email saying I wasn’t selected. Not even from the recruiter I was working with, it was like the automated email when you apply for a role and aren’t selected to even interview. So unprofessional and disappointing especially for the amount of time put in by both parties.

The application process is fairly simple with applying for jobs through taleo website and then visiting office for interviews. Total 7 rounds of interviews with questions ranging from the written test, coding evaluation to behavioral and finally discussion with HR.

I applied in month of March 2021. The interview had 4 rounds and 1 hr round which were all done in a day. Most of the questions were related to Java concepts especially the collection framework. Questions were mostly related to scenarios to your knowledge about the basic concept of collection and its working. Data structure questions like 2 sum problem, create word wrap program, linked list questions.

It took 3 weeks. Role was for Java and database technologies. There were 4 technical rounds followed by director rounds and HR discussion. Entire process was very smooth and they cover questions on entire resume.