I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (London, England) in Jan 2014
Interview
The next stage after online application, was the phone interview which i was invited after 1 month. The phone interview was simple competence base questions plus some small technical questions. After that i was invited to an assessment center. which consisted of 2 technical interview, one competence interview. and a group exercise.
The group exercise, was about servers, which they were planning to deploy, and there were different solution with their pros and cons. and we had to discusses the best solution
The technical interviews, were tailored to the CV and background, so there is no point in mentioning them, However touching on some: Database: how can we store all instance of the user's password. Indexes, Unix terminal (man), HTTPS, HTTP
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (Tokyo) in Oct 2024
Interview
1. HireVue with 3 questions - two in English, one in Japanese.
2. 1 hour screening interview with an engineer, 30% behavioural including some Japanese questions, 70% technical with mix of DSA and coding questions.
3. 30 minute coding interview with an engineer, leetcode medium.
4. 30 minute technical interview with an engineer, was given a Wikipedia page on bloom filters and had 5 minutes to go through it, and was quizzed on it for 25 minutes.
5. 30 minute behavioural round, almost entirely in Japanese.
6. 30 minute behavioural round, more casual and mostly in english.
7. 45 minute final round, entirely behavioural.
8. Meeting with HR where I was given an offer.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Why Morgan Stanley? Why a finance company instead of a tech company? Tell me about a time where you lead a team? etc.
first was the pyschometric test then i was invited to a phone interview with technical on java linux and python and hr questions. It was reasonably long about an hour on the phone
I applied online. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley in Nov 2022
Interview
Phone interview, 40 minutes. 70% the interview were about technical questions but general knowledge, for example what is the difference between a compiler and an interpreter. Also, i was asked about online banking.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is an example of a Compiled Programming Language