Morgan Stanley Interview Experience For Summer Analyst (Off- Campus) 2024
I applied on the careers page without any referral in October 2023. My resume was shortlisted and I received the mail for the Online Assessment on 12th February 2024.
Round-1 (Online Assessment)
I gave my Online Assessment on 15th February. It comprised of 3 sections :
- Debugging Section: Debugging questions and time to solve was 20 mins. One can choose any programming language for debugging and the section was quite easy and one has a basic understanding of programming that can easily debug the questions.
- Aptitude Section: Aptitude Section which had 10 questions to be solved in 20 mins. The difficulty level of the questions was easy to moderate.
- Coding Section: This was the coding question having 3 Programming questions. The difficulty level was Leetcode Easy-Medium. I have provided the link for 2 of the questions:
https://www.w3wiki.net/merging-intervals/
https://www.w3wiki.net/level-order-tree-traversal/ I was able to solve all the 3 coding questions and the debugging and the aptitude section also went well.
Round-2 (Technical Interview)
The next day(on 16th February), I got a call from HR that I had cleared the Online Assessment and that my Interview was scheduled after 4 days on 20th February at 2 PM.
- It was a Zoom call that lasted for over 60 minutes.
- There were two interviews.
- They were friendly.
- They made me feel comfortable.
- First, they asked me to introduce myself.
- Then they jumped over to SQL queries.
- They asked me 9-10 SQL queries.
- I was prepared for it and hence I was able to write the SQL queries correctly for almost all the questions.
- The interviewers were satisfied with it.
- Then they asked me a question on C programming.
- They gave me a piece of code void func(){ int arr[10];}
- They told me that this function is being called recursively infinite number of times and I have a memory of 2 Mega Bytes.
- Then he asked me if this would give an error if it would keep on running infinite times or if my system would crash.
I was able to answer this question and the interviewer was also satisfied with it. - Then they asked me the difference between “call by value” and “call by reference” and asked me to explain it using an example.
- Then they asked me a medium-level DSA question for which I was able to provide the logic and wrote the pseudo-code for the same.
- The interviewers were happy with my approach. In the end, they asked me if I had any questions and the interview ended.
Round-3 (HR Round)
I got a call from HR the very next day(on 21st February) that I got a positive response from the panel and I had my HR Round Scheduled on 22nd Feb.
- I read all the past interview experiences of the HR round of Morgan Stanley.
- I read about the company and the core values of the company.
- I also prepared for some behavioural questions.
- It was again a Zoom call.
- The interviewer joined late and straightaway asked me to introduce myself.
- Then he asked me about the project that I had mentioned in my resume.
- He asked why had used MongoDB over SQL database.
Then he asked me some behavioural questions:
- What are your aspirations and career plans?
- Why do you want to join Morgan Stanley?
- What do you know about the business side of Morgan Stanley?
- Core values of Morgan Stanley?
- There are two teams, one working on Python and the other working on C++, which team you prefer to join and why?
- Give a scenario where you had to sacrifice your ethics.
- Tell an interesting incident related to your project.
- Given a scenario where you are working on a team and you have to deliver a product in one month’s deadline to a client but some bugs in the project hypothetically can’t be removed in one month, you have two options – either to deliver the product late or to deliver a product full of bugs, what will you do?
The interview lasted for about 30 minutes. The interviewer asked me if I had any questions and it ended.
After exactly 3 weeks, I received an email that I had been shortlisted for the Summer Analyst role at Morgan Stanley for the Summer of 2024.
Tips: Be patient and keep believing in yourself. Don’t forget to read past interview experiences before your interview.