I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley
Interview
This interview was so long and painful. It was composed of 4 instances:
- Phone interview with a guy from England for an hour, including technical and brain teasing questions.
- Phone interview with a manager from New York for an hour and a half regarding my background
- In office interview with a panel of developers, including code writing and algorithms.
- In office interview for 4 hours with multiple persons, but I was out of the run after 2 hours.
The whole process lasted about a month with 2 weeks between the 3rd and the 4th. During those 2 weeks I lost my focus and was unprepared. So I failed to answer questions which I was able to answer before.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a relational database, how to improve the performance of a select query involving some joins?
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)
I applied online. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (Montreal, QC) in Jun 2025
Interview
3 rounds, One online screening, then One in person interview where I was asked one medium level dsa question with whiteboarding, then there was another Online interview. The Final online interview was not that good since they were asking more about java language than the actual job, problem solving etc.
