I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (New York, NY) in Oct 2017
Interview
Contacted by a recruiter. First round, interviewer asked in detail about my projects, my interests and why an I interested in joining Morgan Stanley. Interviewer told me they would be hiring me for machine learning position and explained in detail which machine learning problems their team is trying to solve. Round 2 was onsite at their NewYork Office.
I was told i will be interviewed for machine learning role but the interview were total unorganized. Total 3 rounds. None of the rounds had any structure and not even a single ML related problem was asked or any algorithms and data structure questions.
Most of the questions were from operating system, database and Java. Very bad experience, I still don't understand on what criteria they were accessing the candidate. I did answered the question but received a reject 2 weeks later.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Various linux commands, operating systems questions like what is kernel, process thread etc.
Couple of questions on SQL joins and what would be result for each join operation.
Java object oriented principles, what is abstraction inheritance, use of super keyword, interfaces etc. Design class using all oop principles and explain why you choose to design this way.
Compute the square root of number without using mathematical operator.
In a csv certain columns are stored. Read the csv, perform certain join operations and return the result.
Firstly an online assessment was done followed by personal interview.
In the online assessment 3-4 questions were asked which required good understanding of Data structures and algorithms. In the Personal interview questions from neetcode list was asked.
Great processes - 4 interviews and one presentation. Over all found it fair and enjoyable . Was tough but think it was the correct process for the role and I’m glad that I took part.
Mostly technical. Asked reverse string. Asked stuff from my resume, both experience wise and technically delved deeper asking about SQL questions etc...Know your resume well and be prepared for easy lt.
