MSCI Software Engineer interview experience

We started with questions around data structures and core Java, and then the conversation kept escalating the moment I showed I understood the basics. Instead of moving on quickly, the interviewer pushed deeper and deeper into the areas I said I was familiar with.

At some point it just ran out of steam—not because I couldn’t follow, but because the direction was very deliberately incremental. It was a straightforward format, and the difficulty was “average” in the sense that the topics were standard, but the way it progressed made it more demanding than a typical question-and-answer