I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley in Dec 2009
Interview
Got an HR call a few days after submitting online. Only had one very detailed techie phone interview. Morgan Stanley's HR is outsourced to HR consultants. I thought that was odd. I seemed to match some of the skills they were looking for, but I completely bombed on the very very technical questions, things that I had not done in over 5 years. And also these are things that usually people don't know off the top of their heads. In my experience, one of the most important technical must-haves is not knowing everything, but knowing where to look for anything. Sorry, I do not know the actual UNIX command with every possible flag or parameter...that's what UNIX man pages are for.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If Morgan Stanley merged with or acquired another company, how would you design a solution such that the people from MS and people from the newly acquired company can access each company's applications using their own identities, without change to their user ids or passwords?