Morgan Stanley Interview Experience for Summer Analyst 2024(Off-Campus)

I applied on the careers page without any referral in October 2023. My resume got 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 :

• 1. 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.
• 2. Aptitude Section : Aptitude Section which had 10 questions to be solved in 20 mins. The difficulty level of the questions was easy to moderate.
• 3. 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.geeksforgeeks.org/merging-intervals/ https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/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 very next day(on 16th February) , I got a call from HR that I have cleared the Online Assessment and that my Interview is scheduled after 4 days on 20th February at 2PM. It was a Zoom call that lasted for over 60 minutes.There were two interviews. They were really 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 codevoid 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 will give an error or it will keep on running infinite times or my system will 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 . At 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 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 HR round of Morgan Stanley. I read about the company and the core values of the company . I also prepared for some behavioral questions. It was again a Zoom call.

The interviewer joined late and straightaway asked me to introduce myself. Then he asked me about my project that I had mentioned in my resume. He asked why had used MongoDB over SQL database.Then he asked me some behavioral questions:

• What are your aspirations and carpseudo-code

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 informing me that I have been shortlisted for Summer Analyst role at Morgan Stanley in the summer of 2024.

Tips: Be patient and keep believing in yourself 🙂