I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (Chicago, IL) in Mar 2009
Interview
Communication was good, went from a light behavioral interview over phone, and then was contacted for an interview later that week. After that, had an interview with two associates, then a manager, and then another manager. Overall, interview took about 2 weeks.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is your GPA and how does it reflect your abilities?
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (Tokyo)
Interview
There was a Hirevue before, where you are asked to answer in both English and Japanese
Asked about finance (accounting) and statistics (e.g. law of large numbers, bookkeeping basics)
Interviewers were very friendly, very keen to ensure the potential interns had real passion
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked about "my most difficult challenge" that I wrote about in my entry sheet + questions specific to my CV
It took around 30 minutes, they had questions about cv, finance and excel knowledge, was online. Generally easy if you were prepared, fortunately there were no dumb HR questions like "which animal are you"
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (Dallas, TX) in Oct 2023
Interview
A lot of behavioral questions, for example: why do you want work as a Finance intern? What can you add to the firm? What are you soft skills and give me a situation that you used.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why Morgan Stanley? Tell me a situation that you had to work in groups and the group was having a lot of drama, what did you do to solve this problem?
