Morgan Stanley Manager JAVA Interview Experience - Mumbai Location
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Hi All, Hope you all are having a good day. I had applied to the job poition on Morgan stanley\'s official careers site, a Test link was shared it was on...
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Hi All,
Hope you all are having a good day.
I had applied to the job poition on Morgan stanley\'s official careers site, a Test link was shared it was on hackerrank and had total of 15 questions, and then recieved a call from the recruiter in mid august, and after few general questions first interview was scheduled on 29th Aug 2023, it was mainly techincal and coding round in which i was asked to solve a question on hackerrank, the question was basically to divide an array in to 2 arrays in which elements are distinct that is elements in first array should not be present in second and sum of subarray A should be more than that of subarray B.
I was able to solve that and all test cases were
passed.
After a week i recieved a call from HR again, to schedule second round this round was DSA+system design+ DB, i had to solve 2 questions one was dsa problem and second was DB problem both on hackerank, i dont remeber dsa question , but DB problem required me to 2 joins and 3 tables were included, then I was asked about System design questions regarding analaysing and scaling a particular system, and some design patterns. this round went onto for approx 1.5 hours.
I recieved a call from HR on the same Day and 3rd round was scheduled, it was managerial round , and meant interviewing with hiring manager, this was around half an hour, it mainly emphasized on previous projects and skill set, and few technical questions too.
After that i recieved a mail from them after approximately a month\'s wait, in which they said i have cleared all the rounds.
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This is a candidate experience report from a morgan stanley interview for a swe role during the oa round reported in 2023.
It covers the following topics: Arrays, Oop, System Design .
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Solve similar problems on LeetCode under timed conditions (25-35 minutes per medium difficulty). The goal is pattern recognition: recognize the underlying technique (sliding window, two-pointer, BFS, memoized recursion, etc.) within 60-90 seconds of reading. Strong candidates verbalize their hypothesis out loud before coding, then iterate based on feedback. Weak candidates dive into implementation immediately, lose time on the wrong approach, and run out of time for follow-ups.
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