I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley
Interview
HR was nice. but interviewer asked way too much detail. Problem solving was easy but very technical. No behavioral questions. All detailed technical.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How does JVM manage cyclic references? Does JVM collect variables that have cyclic references?
What are different types of locks in multi-threading? Do you know about semaphore lock?
What is a good hashcode? How to generate hashcode? How does map.put work?
what is the complexity of hashtable?
If you have a very large text file. You have comma separated characters. How do you know how many times a word appeared? How will you print the first maximum top 10 words.
I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (Montreal, QC) in Oct 2013
Interview
I got through a college career fair. Had a first level technical interview, then HR invites for four levels of interview after around a week. The first of them was a group activity where you get comfortable with the people and counterparts. Then in the afternoon had three levels of interview, two were technical and one HR. It was great experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Lot of questions came from security domain, You are given two systems,one Windows and one linux. How do you secure each one of them?
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley in Feb 2014
Interview
I got the first round on campus. Interviews gave three questions about brain teaser. The first one is to find 1 item that has different weight among 8 items using scale. And then, I moved to final round. I met four interviewers each for 30 minutes. They gave questions from basic Java questions like Auto boxing, to practical questions such as sorting text files that has many columns, data tracking in DB for the chess game. It was good experience for me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to sort data in each columns in a file. Should put all data on memory.