MSCI Software Engineer interview experience

When I arrived for the interview, I was immediately given a written test with 11 questions, and they didn’t feel “basic” at all. The topics were pretty wide, covering things like multi-threading concepts (including a thread pool executor), data structures, OOP design, how primitive data type storage works, and some tricky static-class scenarios.

What threw me off most was how the scoring seemed to work. It felt harsh and unfair—based on about a 50% threshold they decided whether I was in or out, and even missing a single question would drop my percentage by roughly 10%. I couldn’t clear it;