Morgan Stanley Interview Questions

Application

I applied through an employee referral. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (Washington, DC).

Interview

Phone interview for the first round then made it to the second round where it was 2 30-minute case studies with rather junior people and then had one more case interview with an associate

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Application

The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (Bethesda, MD) in January 2008.

Interview

Basic questions about work ethic. Some market related questions that seemed easy enough to talk through.

Negotiation

Easy. Salary and compensation was negotiable.

Application

I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (New York, NY) in January 2010.

Interview

This was via a co-sourced company. But interview was extensive at Morgan. 4 different developers interviewed. All technology related, mostly on UNIX and databases, as the position was for database developer.

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Application

I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (New York, NY) in February 2015.

Interview

Good Interview good questions open conversation….Friendly people, good location, very professional. Great organization, culture, seems like a great place to work. Took longer than expected met with four different people. would have appreciated feedback on where they are in the process and followup.

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Application

I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (Columbus, OH).

Interview

Pretty straight forward, nothing majorly unexpected, asked the basic interview question that were a formality really like tell me about yourself, tell me about a time when you had to overcome a set back, tell me about a goal that you set out to achieve and did

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Negotiation

No negotiation

Application

I applied online. The process took 2+ months. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley.

Interview

Interview was standard...a phone screen and a couple in house interviews to meet with different members of the team. Everyone was very friendly - but the process itself took very long. Biggest complaint was that my contact in recruiting was not very knowledgeable on the role and couldn't really answer many of my questions. The interviews made up for that but it took a while.

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Application

I applied through an employee referral. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (New York, NY) in December 2014.

Interview

Two phone rounds (2 people), 3 in-person rounds.Met with each type of level from analyst through to Managing Director. Some interviews are with individuals in office who are from different vertical than yours. Be respectful to each person and keep messaging the same in each round.

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Application

I applied through a staffing agency. The process took a week. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (New York, NY) in June 2014.

Interview

5 panel interview - one / two management level interview and 3 rounds core technical interview and at last one detailed technical design interview, Had 2 days of Face to face and one phone interview.Whole process took around a week or so. Procees was delayed as HR communications were not so great and clear.

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Application

I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (Conshohocken, PA) in September 2015.

Interview

Had two interviews. Met with 4 people each time. Pretty standard questions. Company seems to promote work life balance. I really wanted the position after talking to everyone. Mostly everyone seemed happy with their work and their lives there. Can work from home. 4 weeks vacation.

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Application

I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (New York, NY) in June 2011.

Interview

There was an initial phone screen with HR. Upon completion, I met with several of my future colleagues and then my hiring manager in a separate interview. All in all team was very interested in fit and personality over hard-core finance knowledge.

Onboarding was quite easy, with a relatively quick turnaround on starting the new role. Flexibility on start date.

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