Morgan Stanley Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details – on campus interview

Interview Details – First round: Campus recruiting; One person; All technical question.

Interview Details – Several rounds of interviews. Not direct on whether there is or is not a position available. They like when you do the talking rather then them talking the entire time.

Interview Details – Had an initial phone interview, after that I was sent some documents detailing how to build a business plan as a FA. When we met in person for a lunch interview went over how you would implement or grow your practice, as well as addressing my potential target markets or centers of influences for prospective business.

Interview Details – My situation was similar to the executive assistant reviewer below. An email was sent to me asking for availability within the second week of April. I responded back with the disclosure form and other documents they requested. And I never received a response, I was instructed to cc another guy on the response in which I did but no response from either. Ironically, two weeks later I received an email stating that I will not be moving to the final round of the interview and thank you for attending.

I am guessing their BO is a mess and so the professionalism of the company is suffering.

Interview Details – This is for their Menlo Park office. I was sent an email from them requesting my availability in a time to talk about the role and my background. I emailed my contact on three different occasions and I never heard back from them.

Interview Details – Initial interview on campus. Asked about my resume, accomplishments, what I want to achieve, general questions.
Second interview was in the city. Upon arrival, I was told I was interviewing for several positions rather than one with very little information about what they entailed exactly.

I had went with my friend, whom had applied exactly the same way as me. He was "placed" into the "Business Analyst" program and I was placed into the "Software Engineer Tech" program somehow.

Initially it began as a large group project where we had to design, plan, and advertise an event.
After presenting this, the next part of interviews involved face-to-face 45 minute technical interviews. It was like programming speed-dating, and I didn't expect anything like it. I talked to about 5 different people with dramatically different and rather deep technical questions about various programming designs, paradigms, and specifics. Some of which I've never heard of and doubt I will until my senior semester. It felt very rushed too, with only a few minutes to answer each question. Some interviewers wanted me to write the code in any language of my preference too.

One troubling part of these interviews was multiple times I was asked, or presumed, I knew MySQL in depth by different interview people. It never said that on my resume, the intern requirements, or anything of that nature.

As for my friend, he said he had very laid-back and non-technical questions. Said it was one of the easiest interviews he's done. Despite the fact we both went in with similar skills, goals, and for the same position, it felt very wrong.

Interview Details – Applied online through campus, took a while to get any response back. Exam given on campus. 1hr, a lot of questions (60 I think). Never heard back.

Interview Details – This was an internal move, but was for a promotion so it was easy to scout and learn about the hiring managers and the challenges facing the role. I met with two Director level managers who covered different products. The questions were fairly straight forward as were my answers and it was much more of a "feel-out" process as to make sure there would be a strong work dynamic. I was advised I would hear within two weeks and received an offer in the timeline established.

Negotiation Details – there was no room to negotiate as this was internal