I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (London, England) in Apr 2017
Interview
Approached by an agent.
Codility online test which is about 90 mins with three test. Two algorithms tests which are not difficult. The other one is a quite trivial programming test not difficult but not easy to get the requirement right.
After the test take about 1 week for them to call back to some question about the test itself and some general technical question.
After another 1 week onsite interview. Three round with 2 people each. 1st round seems some junior developer asking very basic questions and needs to write some coding on paper! 2nd round some senior developer some more general technical questions, mostly on previous projects. 3rd round managers (I think) and mostly soft skill questions.
Although I feel generally positive about my performance in the interview, in the end, it is no offer, no feedback. Nice place to do the interview though.
Video interview and below are first level interview
Recruiter directly contact and scheduled interview.
There are more round also there but I couldn’t clear first which was simple however my prepration was not hood
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Core java basic questions
How to make Immutable class
Difference between LinkedList and ArrayList
SQL to delete all duplicate just keep one entry
I applied online. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (Bengaluru) in Jan 2026
Interview
It has 6 rounds, all are technical.
Technical questions related to Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, Kafka.
After 2 and half months, they don't have any answer and put the position on hold. This is totally wasting of time.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (Bengaluru) in May 2025
Interview
I found the interview process at Morgan Stanley to be less about meaningful engagement with the candidate and more focused on showcasing the interviewer's own expertise. Rather than fostering a two-way conversation to evaluate mutual fit and problem-solving ability, the interaction felt one-sided and performative. There was a noticeable lack of genuine interest in understanding my background or perspectives, with much of the time spent on complex technical questions seemingly chosen more to impress than assess.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1) HashMap, TreeMap (getListOf Employees and Addresses) fetch only Address from Employee List 2) Stream Operation to sort numbers, calculate time complexity 3) Priority queue implementation and insertion order 4) Find Minimum index from a rotated array with minimal time complexity.
