Morgan Stanley Software Engineer interview experience

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BengaluruPosted Oct 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first round had gone well, so I was surprised when the next interview felt completely hostile to the process itself.

In the second round, the interviewer barely interacted—he just chatted for a short stretch and then effectively told me there were no questions left and the call could be wrapped.

When I pushed to understand why, the feedback boiled down to gaps he claimed were missing from my resume for banking experience. I tried to clarify that my background included work at a credit union serving a large number of clients, and I even pointed out that my current project was data focused. Then the conversation narrowed further into a claimed lack of Spring Boot experience.

What threw me off most was the

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