I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (New York, NY) in Sep 2018
Interview
I applied online through their website and received an email in a few weeks to provide an availability to initial phone call with an engineer.
30 mins phone call was totally technical. No need of any laptop or internet connection but be ready to answer some indepth technical question and discuss algorithm for a program.
After a successful phone call, I was invited for an onsite interview at New York location.
5 rounds of technical interviews with different team memebers and hiring manager. All the questions were not exteremly difficult and interviewers were good too.
After finishing 5 rounds of an interview, I think I did well and had a chance to talk with a director. Everything went well but then did not hear back from them. Followed up 3 times but no response from anyone at Morgan Stanley.
Interview questions [8]
Question 1
Phone Screen:
Check if two elements in an array equal to a sum or not?
I applied online. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (Glasgow, Scotland)
Interview
3 total rounds
1. 30m phone screen where I was asked about my experience and some basic Java-related questions.
2. 1h technical interview where I was asked more Java-related questions and had to implement a sorting algorithm by hand.
3. Final 4h interview where multiple interviewers that spanned system architecture, coding/algorithms, and behavioural questions.
After all that process, the recruiter never bothered to get back to me. I followed-up after a week and was informed that they're still making final decisions. No answer after that.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain the architecture of a system that you currently work with
I applied online. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (Budapest) in Feb 2026
Interview
Very enjoyable interview, the interviewers tried to dig deep in my skills, they weren't just passive listeners. Gave me an example of what it is like to work in this specific team.
It was for the role Software Engineer - Java Developer. Hr reached out to discuss about the role. There were 2 rounds of technical interview.
Each round will consist of 1 hour interview.And then followed by an hr round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Mainly focused on dsa and java
Asked to sort list of employees based on its id using java8.
Given an array and target, find the indices from the array whose sum is equals to the target. The solution should be in O(n)