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Updated May 25, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Global Capital Markets at Morgan Stanley
Posted Sep 12, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 in New York, NY (took a day)
It was a very simple process. I just got an email and went to interview. It was a 4 on 1 interview, and rather intimidating. The interview was easy in that they didn't ask any hard questions, but they asked a lot of questions that makes it hard to impress them such as "what is your favorite activity." It seems like they just really wanted to get to know me, and thought I wasn't a good fit
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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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Derivatives Project at Morgan Stanley
Posted Aug 30, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2011 in New York, NY (took 6 weeks)
Given MS is one of the leading financial companies of our time, I expected their HR to be a bit more organized and structured. That is def. not the case.
The hiring process started very abruptly, when I randomly received an email asking for my availablity for an in-person interview. The job description was attached in the email and I was given only a 2 day notice. There was no usual HR phone screening. I guess they found my background strong enough to skip that. Anyhow, I accepted the interview invite. The first in-person interview was scheduled for only 30 mins, which I also found a bit odd because all my interviews to-date have been at least 45-60 minutes. The first one went well, and I received an email from HR after 2-3 days for a second interview. This time the interview was to be conducted over the phone. The second round also went well. HR emailed me asking for my availablity in the following week. I replied but didnt hear back for another 3 days. Then, I got an email with another in-person interview with date and time but no location or person's name I'd be meeting with. So, I followed up and then a day later got an email with more information. That interview also went well.
Lastly, I was called in for a case study interview with three MS personnel, each assuming roles in the areas of business, ops and tech. They evaluated my problem solving, presentation, communication and project management skills. In my opinion it went well but then I never heard back from them. A few days later, I received an automated email saying that my application with MS was closed. The job that was referenced in the email was not even the job I had interviewed for. I wasn't sure what it meant that my application was closed but then when I never heard back from HR, I assumed that I was not selected for the position. I also emailed the HR person I had been working with to get closure but never got a response.
Long story short - MS is good company I am sure, they have great brand name but their HR clearly sucks. People working there are not very professional and def. not organized.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Quantitative Analyst at Morgan Stanley
Posted Jul 30, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2010 in New York, NY (took a day)
I was emailed by someone from Human Resources. We set up an interview time by email. She was a little late with the phone call but nothing to complain about. She talked to me for a few minutes about my background but she wasn't particularly friendly. Then she asked me five probability type questions. I dont' recall all of them but I do remember that one was a simple application of Bayes rule and another was something like how many times to do you expect to roll two dice until the sum is 11. Finally there was something like "you have 3 random variables that all have pairwise correlation rho, what are the possible values of rho". It was sort of frustrating because she had no idea how to do the problems, just whether or not I got them right. So she couldn't provide me with any guidance when the questions were a bit vague or I needed clarification.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Internal Audit Intern at Morgan Stanley
Posted Jul 21, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 in New York, NY (took 4 weeks)
Nice interviewers. Asked about my resume a lot.
Group activity consisting of building a Morgan Stanley logo with Legos.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview and a Personality Test.
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Software Engineer at Morgan Stanley
Posted Jul 21, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 in New York, NY (took 2 days)
Applied for a Java developer position. Had an initial one-person phone interview and then a in-person interview at their NYC office with three developers. Everyone was really nice, even though the last interviewer asked me a bunch of questions that were really tough and in-depth questions on Java serialization and generics (the previous interviewers asked me core Java questions, including questions on concurrency and multi-threading).
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Operations Analyst at Morgan Stanley
Posted Jul 18, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2010 in New York, NY (took a day)
Phone interview consisted of various behavioral questions. Then 2 30 minute back-to-back interviews followed by a group activity in front of all the MS employees interviewing the candidates. Involved replication of lego structure and creating a business from that.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Quantitative Analyst at Morgan Stanley
Posted Jun 26, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 in New York, NY (took a day)
They only asked basic math and Black-Scholes. The interview stopped since I did not know how to calculated P&L from discrete hedging. They were not interested in my thought process, only if I knew the correct answer. For example, no credit for deriving B-S (PDE or price) from scratch...only "is this memorized"?
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Skills Test.
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Operational Risk Intern at Morgan Stanley
Posted Jun 5, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2009 in Brooklyn, NY (took a day)
Interview with 4 Associates the work for the Information Security department in the Operational Risk division of Morgan Stanley. Majority of it was behavioral questions with few conceptual ones. Must know about excel and database. A plus if you know HTML and know about reporting or vendors.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Senior Software Developer at Morgan Stanley
Posted May 5, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 in New York, NY (took 1+ week)
First round: telephonic interview
Face 2 Face: 2 rounds technical + 1 round (to explain more about the position)
2 telephonic rounds with ppl in London
They were willing to offer full time but I wanted to go for consulting so that I can make more money.
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Yes. They liked me and my skills were an asset to them, So they needed badly in their team.
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I got the interview through a Staffing Agency and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Credit Risk Intern at Morgan Stanley
Posted Apr 12, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 in New York, NY (took a day)
1 Vice President, 1 analyst basic interview, asked easy questions, but they were intimidating, asked basically why i wanted to work there, and also why i chose my school, and some of my analytical and quantitative skills.
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