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Updated Feb 14, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.

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Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Jan 2012 in New York, NY (took 5+ weeks)

The first round interview was held on campus and consisted of a 1:1 30 mintute interview. It started out with me walking the recruiter through my resume. He then asked some behavioral questions such as, "tell me about a situation where you found yourself working in a group that was heading in the wrong direction, how it was changed, and what you got out of it." He also asked which group within finance I would like to work for if I had the choice. I got a second round interview out of it, which I have yet to complete, which is at their office in NY.

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What technical skills have you learned in your classes that you could bring to an internship with us?

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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Sep 2011 in Moscow (Russia) (took a day)

job: part-time worker in finance dep., mainly to deal with Excel. Had 2 separate 1:1 interviews, first with the finance department employee, second with a hr recruiter. the first one was quite logical, with questions about 'my story' and 'assets vs. liabilities', 'credit vs. debit'.
the second one was too abstract, it semt like the recruiter was a bit strange, asked seemingly not-coherent questions.
they promised to call back in 3 days, failed to do that, i only managed to reach them 5 or 6 days after the interiew and they informed about their denial.

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to give an example of a credit and a debit in the bank's statement

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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Oct 2011 (took a day)

started with an elevator pitch, then they asked for a resume walk through.
the main aim of the interview was to ask about

1. why are you passionate about finance?
2. why Morgan Stanley
3. how your experience will help you, help morgan stanley and especially in the role of a financial analyst
4. what finance does
5. company information

Interview Questions

how does your internship experience relates to finance and how does it help Morgan Stanley

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

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4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Negative Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed May 2010 in New York, NY (took a day)

Phone Interview with pure mathematical questions. And the interviewer asked me something about personal trading, like which ticker I have traded. Difficulty of math questions vary from easy to extremely hard, one of which took me nearly 2 weeks to find the answer.

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1. Assume B (t) is a standard brown motion, which possible positive integer n, satisfied the condition that B (t) ^n would be a martingale?

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2. The current stock price is 10, and it has a probability of 60% to rise to 12, or 40% to drop to 8 at the end of this year? Assume the risk-free rate is 0, what will be the fair at the money call option price?

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3. Stock A has a volatility of 20%, B has a volatility of 30%, and their correlation coefficient is 50%. They have the same expect returns. Suppose we can buy x share of A, and 1-x share of B. Then what the x should be for us to invest to make our portfolio has the minimum volatility?

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2.0

Easy Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Declined Offer

Interviewed Feb 2011 in New York, NY (took 2 days)

I applied through the university. First round interview was one on one, and consisted of behavioral and technical (accounting) questions. They flew me out to NYC a couple weeks later, and had a group activity, in which interviewers observed our interactions with each other, and then 3 one on one interviews. They were mostly fit questions, with a focus on the markets and my past experiences.