I applied through a recruiter. The process took 8 weeks. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (Montreal, QC) in Nov 2020
Interview
I made the interviews at Q4 of 2020, I got the offer but declined as I lived in Toronto, and moving was a big concern. The good thing for Morgan Stanley is you can search in their job site, and pick multiple roles. And the recruiter was nice, so I applied for 4 roles. It seems there are 4 rounds. 1st round is HR reach-out; 2nd round is phone tech interview; 3rd virtual on-site; and 4th is manager. Tech interviews were mostly related to Python basic data structure related questions. Like easy level q in leetcode. Also ask candidates questions based on resume.
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Question 1
I put Pandas in my resume, and the interviewer asked how I used Pandas, I said I used it to handle csv data. Then he asked, how to make reading csv faster.
2 rounds tech on python skills and leetcode problem, 1 round with Hiring manager on Behavior questions. no OA or homework assignment. leetcode with level easy but put values in optimization
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Question 1
fibonacci, generator, pandas vetorization, data query
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley in Apr 2025
Interview
Post the screening round there was a Technical Round which lasted for 1.5hr. Two people took my interview and they asked basic questions about python gave some problems to solve etc.
what they are looking for:
1. unix
2. sql
3.python
4. django
5. fastapi
it went very well and i got an instance response for f2f interview
i cleared the first round and the second Technical round was a F2F interview.
The f2f interview is nothing different than online
they call you to a meeting room just to connect you to a zoom call. they are rigid enough to not turn on their cameras (its little demotivating talking to icons) and while i was sitting there i realised the interviewer is quite rigid for example he asked me which orm have you used i mentioned sqlalchemy and he didnt know about it he only judged that i dont know about pydantic models and then he told me they are looking for people having more skill set in api development . In the previous interview i had explained my api development answered questions about fastapi and flask but it felt like this fellow hadn't taken feedback from them. i strongly believed he had someone already in mind who he wanted to hire and they just wasted my time calling me there.
In the end he said prepare more (without even asking me questions he came to the conclusion i was under prepared)
They are a huge company with people being superiority complex. what is a job finders situation today can be theirs too someday.
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Question 1
gave me different sql and unix problems like return the user data with max salary . grep through list of files and find patterns. they ask to share screen and show
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (Bengaluru) in Jul 2023
Interview
round 1- 1. some simple basic question like arravs vs list, tuples, sets, 2. string manipulations, tricky questions regarding it 3. then they asked oops concepts, packing/unpacking. context managers, 4. asked to write a program implementing any oop concept(inheritence)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
round 1- 1. some simple basic question like arravs vs list, tuples, sets, 2. string manipulations, tricky questions regarding it 3. then they asked oops concepts, packing/unpacking. context managers, 4. asked to write a program implementing any oop concept(inheritence)