I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (Budapest) in Sep 2024
Interview
As I remember there would have been 4 rounds in total. Long phone interview with HR in english. It was very tiring, answering the questions that could be answered from my CV. Technical interview in english again. Totally prepared for solving recursive algorithmic problems, and there it was. Although I was nervous at the beginning, felt really comfortable answering java related questions in english then almost solved portfolio calculation problem in hackerrank with recursion. I didn't feel I wanted to work with these guys though. There were no chemistry and they did not let me move on to the next stage either. Which would be a technical interview with the team I guess, then executor interview. Little overwhelming if you ask me. One lesson I took for sure: should not go to an interview where I really do not want to work. They feel it and it doesn't help to your self-esteem.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is object in java? What are interfaces? How do you query from one or more sql tables? What is the technique to optimally query from a huge database? The answer should be it depends,but we went to the direction of indexing and we were talking about indexing of a db table. The algorithm should be solved with hashmap and recursion.
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.