Quant applicants have rated the interview process at Morgan Stanley with 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 29% positive. To compare, the company-average is 62% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Quant roles take an average of 15 days to get hired, when considering 9 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Morgan Stanley overall takes an average of 27 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Morgan Stanley as a Quant according to 9 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 75%
Presentation: 13%
Personality test: 13%
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I applied through college or university. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley
Interview
three phones interviews with quants, asked math questions and programming questions and also questions about my projects. Once I got the offer i had to give back an answer pretty quickly.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley
Interview
I have received the written exam invitation 2 months after I applied online. It's basically a group pre-test, focus on technical questions. Paper Exam with 73 questions lasts for 60 minutes. In the programming part, you can choose between Java and C++, or both, not so much about the code, but basic concepts and ideas of the programming. We have 50ish students in the 2nd section in the afternoon, they will get back to you within two weeks if you pass the exam.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A lot about the stochastic process, ito's lemma, Brownie Motion and probability calculation.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley in Feb 2017
Interview
First round written test including everything. Including linear algebra, statistics, stochastic process, derivative and programming. Then a phone interview asking very hard probability questions and derivatives questions. I didn't solve one the probability question and received reject letter.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How did some very not common greeks influence options' price