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      Junior Software Developer Interview

      12 May 2020
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Calgary, AB
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (Calgary, AB) in Feb 2020

      Interview

      I got an email at Feb 2020 contact for an interview. The first was the recruiter interviewed via phone asking some basic questions. Brief self-introduction, why Shareworks. Then the recruiter asked technical questions. Most and many of them are related to OOD concepts such as what is inheritance/polymorphism, do you know design patterns and name them. Then some questions about agile development. It sounded like the recruiter took notes about what I answered. After the phone interview, I moved on to an on-site interview in Shareworks Calgary downtown office. The onsite interview contains two parts. The first part is about OOD again began with few questions about the basic concept. Also some bq. Many follow-up questions. Then moves to an OOD design question. Whiteboard design. The question was about designing a structure of storing system in a car-race game. The system stores information about cars available for players. Two types of gear changing strategies: manual/automatic. Two types of fuel: gasoline/diesel. You should design a system that can produce cars as asked by the player. (If the player wants a car with manual gear changing and burn gasoline, your system should provide one instance of the car with such configuration). Also, the system should have good scalability and maintainability. Follow up questions about using design patterns in the system. Factory? Strategy? Singleton? What if the system changed to be responsible for supporting a new type of car such as tank? The second part was about the database. In the end, I had opportunities to ask them some questions.

      Interview questions [9]

      Question 1

      What is Inheritance? Why use inheritance?
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      Question 2

      What is polymorphism?
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      Question 3

      What is Interface-based programming? What's the benefit of using it?
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      Question 4

      What is test-driven programming? How did you test your application? What is the unit/integration testing? Automation testing? Why use an automation test?
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      Question 5

      How do you understand "embracing challenges"?
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      Question 6

      How do you understand "dry"?
      1 Answer

      Question 7

      How do you evaluate an OOD design?
      1 Answer

      Question 8

      Do you know the design patterns? name them. What is the decorator design pattern? When to use it?
      1 Answer

      Question 9

      How many types of join in a database system?
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      4

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      Junior Software Developer Interview

      30 Jan 2026
      Anonymous employee
      Montreal, QC
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (Montreal, QC) in Sept 2025

      Interview

      Three Rounds: Recruiter call > in-person technical and behavioural round > final round (technical + behavioural, again). Since this role was for juniors, 50% was deep diving on resume and your tech stack in your past internships and/or projects; the other 50% were on technicals and behaiorals, which were much simpler than expected. The technicals were LeetCode easy/medium, based on two-pointers and linked lists, and consecutive questions on simple data structures (lists, sets, maps) and their time complexity. Also, depending on what role you're applying to specifically, know that language's concepts. For example, if you're applying for a Java role, definitely know the tradeoffs of using Java vs C++/Python, Garbage collection, OOP, Collections interfaces, errors, file handling, etc . The behavioural were 2 STAR method questions (ex: tell me about a time you had a conflict with your team and how you resolved the issue). Definitely not the hardest interview I've done. Really focus on past experience + simple DSA + OOP, and you'll be fine.

      Interview questions [3]

      Question 1

      Implement (psedo code) a hashmap and what are the time complexities for the opeartions
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      Question 2

      SQL indexing (i had this on my resume, so they dove into it)
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      Question 3

      OOP principles (hint: be really thorough and descriptive. Dont just say by name. Explain how each one is achieved in your chosen language (I used Java here, so for example, when talking about polymorphism, i talked about runtime/compile time poly and how it's achieved in Java))
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      Junior Software Developer Interview

      4 Feb 2024
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Montreal, QC
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (Montreal, QC)

      Interview

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      Junior Software Engineer Interview

      24 Jan 2024
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley

      Interview

      first 30 minutes phone screen - 1 hour hiring manager interview - 3 rounds technical interview, each 30-60 minutes - last round interview with a senior manager around one hour

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Java OOP, Database, Git, Scrum
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