Morgan Stanley Software Engineer interview experience

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IndiaPosted Oct 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I spoke with HR first to discuss the role, and then the schedule moved into two technical interviews that were each about an hour, followed by another HR conversation.

Across the technical rounds, the focus was heavily on fundamentals: Core Java concepts and deeper questions that connected back to what I had listed on my resume.

In one of the interviews, I had to work through an algorithmic problem like reversing a string, but the conversation went beyond that into resume-driven follow-ups. I also got pulled into SQL questions, and I remember the interviewer digging in as if they wanted to confirm I genuinely understood the pieces I’d described.

The other technical screen leaned even more into Java topics like OOP principles, multithreading, and how

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