I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (London, England) in Apr 2024
Interview
I applied for Java Developer role at Morgan Stanley in March 2024.
Had an initial call with the recruiter to discuss more about the role.
INTERVIEW FOR PROJECT 1.
1st round video Interview was conducted on April 16th 2024.
The interview was conducted as three rounds, a code review, pair coding and a system design round, different interviewers for each round in one call, which I believe I have done my best.
INTERVIEW FOR PROJECT 2.
Next 30mins phone Interview was conducted on April 25th 2024.
This 30mins initial interview was for a different project, in the same organization, surprisingly they had openings in more than one project at that time and for each project we have to go through their own interview process. Basic Java interview questions were asked for this round. It went well. I had more hopes!
INTERVIEW RESULTS FOR PROJECT 1
- PASSED
FINAL ONSITE INTERVIEW FOR PROJECT 1
A 1 hour Final interview was scheduled for MAY 7th 2024, at Morgan Stanley office in Canary Wharf, London.
INTERVIEW CANCELLED
The final onsite Interview was cancelled one day before the interview and the REASON- DUE TO A REVIEW OF THE HEAD COUNT.
FOLLOWING-UP AFTER INTERVIEW CANCELLED
JUNE 2024 - Recruiter replied - The situation is still the same here and we are waiting the outcome of our business review currently. When things change here will get in touch with you to share any opportunity. Unfortunately I do not have any further information I can share at the moment.
AUGUST 2024 - NO RESPONSE
OCTOBER 2024 - NO RESPONSE
STILL NO RESPONSE!
This was the the worst Interview experience I have had in my life. Despite reaching out multiple times, I have not received any response. Given the considerable time and effort I have invested in the technical rounds, and the success I achieved in passing all of them, I hope them to have a better communication and treat the candidates with little respect!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Java basic questions, code review, pair coding and a system design round
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.
