I applied online. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (Bengaluru) in Apr 2022
Interview
Hacker Rank task will be given by them, need to complete within the 24 hrs. Its 90 min having 2 Coding and rest 10+ questions related to Threading, JVM, GC etc.
Next round is Technical where interviewer will ask a questions on your skills. It involves Coding, Problem Solving, Code Optimizing skills will be tested. Simultaneously questions related coding will be asked. Nearly took 1hr.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Singleton Class, Create the Singleton Class in 2 ways.(direct and thread safe)
2. Hash Map implementation.
3. Thread related questions, Sync, Life Cycles, States.
4. ways of creating the thread, which do you prefer and why ?
5. Wait vs Sleep
6. Serialization.
7. Comparable vs Comparator
8. Rest API, Service, Annotation, Repository, JPA, Junit
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)