I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (Bengaluru) in Jul 2020
Interview
The number of rounds are not fixed , it depends on team to team.For me there was 4. I could reach up to R3. - Telephonic,Zoom Call, Telephonic-Design and Aptitude question.
R1 - Most question on thread and collection framework and couple of implementation question.
R2- String based ds question and collection internal functionality. There was extensive discussion on GC and GC algorithms . Questions on transaction management and complex SQL queries(Joins).
R3- Interview with senior manager in MS . This was the worst round as the interviewer was not interested . He started with basic interface question and then went upto open ended design questions. He further went up to Queue DS - how DQ works and blocking queue .This person did not agree to any answer and seems very disinterested in talking the round.
HR called me and told the feedback is not that positive and we will reschedule your interview to another team as we have multiple requirement and all crap . But later they sent a rejection mail.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q- How to find whether if a permutation of a string can be a palindrome ?
Q- Find sum of two number =K in an sorted and unsorted array?
Q-Hashmap internal working and where can you use identityHashMap
Q-Design a realtime dashboard where you would display top 10 players in a game.
Q-Design an algorithm to schedule a match within N teams where each match is elimination?How would you handle if you have N%2=1(where N is odd)? On what basis you would sit out a team and play another
Q-How would you send and receive XML as Req and Res in REST
Q-How would you inject a prototype bean into Singleton bean
Q-What are the alternatives to Databases ? How can you compute 1 billion records in a distributed system? How would you breakdown data and remerge the results across distributed systems.
Q- Find the longest prefix of words in a string of array
Q- MQ vs Rest Services - Which is best in what scenario?
Q- In what scenario thread becomes heavy weight ?
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.
