I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (Budapest) in Jun 2020
Interview
1st round : A phone interview with basic technical questions.
2nd round: 1,5 hour long video interview with my future team. Harder technical questions and programming independent logical questions.
3rd round: HR phone interview about your expectations, and salary.
4th round: Video interview with the management. Just technical questions.
5th round (if it's count) : They told me that I got the job. "It's not an interview just an informal team fit video chat with your team."- stated by my HR contact. In fact, it seemed to me that it was an interview full of technical questions.
After that, a few weeks passed, I asked the HR about my process, but no one answered, they disappered.
Looks like Morgan Stanley is, an indecisive and dishonest company.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is smart pointer?
Smart pointer implementation
Quick algorithm questions (time complexity, space complexity)
Other logical reasoning questions
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (New York, NY) in Jul 2025
Interview
Total 4 rounds including the HR round. it was smooth , most of the questions were basics of C++ and multithreading, operating system. they asked my question to debug multhithreaded question and write bubble sort program.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley in Jul 2022
Interview
Early this year I had an introductory phone interview with a person at MS. They told me to wait a few days for the next interview. Weeks had gone by with no response. A few months later I get contacted by another person at MS for the same introductory interview. I ask them why I hadn't heard back from the original person and they said it must've been because the position had gotten filled. Okay, no problem. But the least they could've done is let me know. I finish the introductory interview and then 2 weeks later I have my first technical interview. One of the guys who conducted the interview said he'll recommend that I get passed along to the next stage. A week goes by and I ask for an update from the recruiter about whether I'm being passed to the next stage. She says no update. 2 weeks goes by and I ask again. No update. 3 weeks, no update. It's been 4 MONTHS and I have not heard back from Morgan Stanley and when I ask my original recruiter, she doesn't say that I've been rejected. She simply says there's been no update to my application status. I expected far more professionalism from this company. This is one of the worst interviews I've ever done. I would not recommend applying.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (Montreal, QC) in May 2022
Interview
the first interview was technical.
the question was about the string to integer function. I had to implement a function to convert the string to an integer. I answer to the question and after 3 days they send me an email for the second interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
the question was about the string to integer function. I had to implement a function to convert the string to an integer.