Interview was on campus for the first round. The interviewer was very nice and it was quite relaxed. Asked about previous experience and projects that I have worked on and asked about technologies I was familiar with. Overall it was a really good experience
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (New York, NY) in Oct 2012
Interview
Had the first round in college where everyone who went to one particular interviewer got asked the same set of questions
Memory management
Integer to Ascii
Threading
Basic Sql queries
data structures in java
Was called on site to interview with one team unlike 2 which is usually the case..
had a group activity where I was supposedly being tested for leadership abilities and communication skills
had 2 interviews
1st interview :
square root of a number , difference between tree set and hash set , reverse a linked list
2nd interview
completely behavioral
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (Montreal, QC) in Oct 2012
Interview
There is initially an small interview, which happened at my university, where they ask you basic logic and algorithm questions to see if you can solve problems on the spot. They also ask you some basic programming concepts, the kind that reviews on glassdoor already detail. So therefore I was already aware of the kind of programming concepts that were going to be tested.
The interviewing was good, what turned me off was the interviewer. He wasn't unfriendly, but he wasn't friendly either. In short, his demeanor didn't encourage interaction. The reviews I read on glassdoor were contrary to that, so I think this interviewer and/or interview may be an outlier.
I was not invited back for any further interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- How do you determine contents of the fifth last element of an array of an unknown size?
- What is a hashmap?
- What is polymorphism?
- What is inheritance?
The answers the interviewer seemed to respond positively to (if at all) were the ones that were accompanied by an example. I learnt from that and have found that to be true in subsequent interviews with other companies as well.