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Updated Feb 15, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.

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2.0

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Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Feb 2012 (took a day)

The interview last 30 minutes, but to me it seemed to be 10 minutes. Interviewers were friendly. I was asked 5 technical questions and that's pretty much it.
Linked list traversal, object oriented programming and time complexity were the main questions.

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Analyze the time complexity of a weird looking piece of code.

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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Aug 2011 in Mumbai (India) (took a day)

Basics of C and C++
They had different subjects from which they asked questions.
Also asked basics of SQL,OS, OOPS.

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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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2.0

Easy Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Received and Declined Offer

Interviewed Apr 2010 in Budapest (Hungary) (took 3 days)

First there was a phone interview with some basic programming questions about Java, SQL, but also topics like data structures. After that I was invited to come to the office where there were 3 intervews. One with HR (general, average HR questions). The second was about technical skills, like the phone interview but in more details (again mainly focused on SQL, Java). The 3rd interview consisted of 'logical' questions which tested analytical thinking.

Interview Questions

Which sorting algorithm would you use for situation X and describe how it works (during phone interview).

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Jul 2011 in Mumbai (India) (took 2 days)

Interview process consisted of 2 telephonic rounds followed by another 5 rounds of which two are technical .The questions were quite easy first technical consisted of design question followed by basic c++ questions in the second technical ,others being professional fitness and HR .They said they will be giving feedback after 1 day and HR asked me to send some documents and said offer was in review and require approvals. i honestly don't know what does that mean .After that no sign of anything like i mean who are we kidding at least they should inform or not whether i got through or my candidature rejected ,but no they don't care .They don't even respond.This is unprofessional-ism at the best i should say.One suggestion for people preparing for morgan stanley don't concentrate on Data structures and algorithms no one seems to care all they care is C++ with STL and some basic scripting.

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design question

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recursively renaming .c to .cpp files

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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Personality Test.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

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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What are the two functions you need to implement in a class in order to make it usable efficiently in Java Collections?

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How do you implement a singleton in Java? Make it thread-safe.

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Lots of concurrency, multi-threading questions.

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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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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Feb 2011 (took a day)

They will have 4 to 5 onsite interviews from different divisions. Your resume should be impressive to at least one division. They have lot of java work. It's always better you know java. The questions won't be difficult, However I feel you need to maintain consistency in each interview.

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when do you use smart pointer?

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4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Aug 2009 (took 2 weeks)

I was interviewed for .Net position. They asked core c#, multithreading, design patterns, data structure.

Interview Questions

create you own Arraylist.

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a design question based on decorator pattern

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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

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3.0

Average Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Nov 2010 (took a day)

I would suggest a person with a strong programming background apply for this position. they ask a lot about algorithms and data structures and also about the unix operating system. Despite what people told me, it was not a HR interview..it was purely technical

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Tell me something about yourself.

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How to delete the last three nodes in a singly linked list?

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4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Oct 2010 in Mumbai (India) (took 2 days)

The company selected people on the basis of a written test held in college as a part of college recruitment process. The written test mainly consisted of objective questions from c and c++.
The interview process consisted of 3 interviews. 2 technical interviews and 1 HR . The questions asked in the technical interview were from started from the project i did, then C++ and then Operating System questions which included questions from Threads.

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If an application is to be made which reads from 3 files and writes the sum into the 4th file, should it use multiple thread ?

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4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Neutral Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed May 2010 (took 2 weeks)

i submitted resume on the morgan stanley website. then recruiter set me up for a online C++ test at IKM. the test consists of c++ concepts and algorithm and coding. the test was ok, not too hard. then i got an onsite interview with the group. i met 4 people