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Quantitative Analyst at Morgan Stanley
Posted Feb 3, 2012
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4.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 (took 2 weeks)
Pricing related question (binomial tree) & Stochastic process (Poisson process in my case) & C++ (asked a lot of definitions)
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Quantitative Analyst at Morgan Stanley
Posted Nov 11, 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 Nov 2011 in New York, NY (took a day)
It was a academic conference, however, Morgan Stanley was recruiting there. Everyone submitted their resume in the morning, waited for being called in the afternoon based on the competency of their resume. I was called as the last one that day (because I submitted late). Had a one on one technical interview in a conference room. The employer seemed like a senior quant, looked very tired, and had not too much conversation with me. After a very brief self introduction(about twenty seconds), he started to asked me questions. First one was about Brownian motion and reflection theory, the second one was about flipping coins and its probability. I finished the two questions based on his hint. One thing to mention is, the way he solved the problems was really smart.
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Quantitative Analyst at Morgan Stanley
Posted Nov 4, 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 Apr 2011 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took a day)
It was the initial telephone interview. I had a few questions about my CV and why I have chosen some modules and about my dissertation topic. Why do I want to work for Morgan Stanley and why that position.
I had a few easy probability questions and some harder ones. The person interviewing was pretty nice.
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Quantitative Analyst at Morgan Stanley
Posted Sep 25, 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 Mar 2011 (took a day)
Phone interview. Probability questions and finance.
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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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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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Quantitative Analyst at Morgan Stanley
Posted Mar 24, 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 2011 in New York, NY (took a day)
They contacted me over the email to set up a time for a phone interview. The interview was rescheduled because the recruiter had another urgent meeting at that time. The interview was supposed to consist of quantitative and finance questions. However, they did not ask anything related to finance questions, which was good and bad. Good because I dont have a finance background and bad because I studied 10 days for it.
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Quantitative Analyst at Morgan Stanley
Posted Mar 11, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 (took 2 weeks)
It was basically a phone interview, consisting of probability questions, finance questions and a little bit about the market. You baisically had to know your basics to do well.
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Quantitative Analyst at Morgan Stanley
Posted Mar 10, 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 Jan 2011 (took a day)
second round phone interview. some questions about probability, derivative pricing, integral. One question is to integrate sin(x)/x from -infinity to +infinity.
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Quantitative Analyst at Morgan Stanley
Posted Mar 8, 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 Feb 2011 in New York, NY (took 1+ week)
The phone interview from HR is not hard. They just pick some probability problems and finance problems. I use about 5 mins on every problem on average. The HR sound tired.
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