Quantitative Analyst 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 Quantitative Analyst roles take an average of 11 days to get hired, when considering 76 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 Quantitative Analyst according to 76 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 48%
One on one interview: 15%
Skills test: 11%
Presentation: 9%
IQ intelligence test: 8%
Group panel interview: 4%
Personality test: 3%
Background check: 3%
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I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (New York, NY) in Nov 2010
Interview
I applied online and got an interview call after resume screening. The interview was basic math and finance knowldege. Questions:
1. What is the current DJIA
2. NASDAQ
3. Given a 3-D grid of side 3 and where length of each unit is 1, find the number of ways of moving from coordinate 0,0,0 to 3,3,3. Assume that the two points are the 2 ends of the body diagnol.
4. A question based on birth and death processes
5. Probabilty Q based on bay's rule
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There is a big line of people waiting outside a theatre for buying tickets. The theatre owner comes out and announces that the first person to have a birthday same as someone standing before him in the line gets a free ticket. Where wil you stand to maximise your chance?
First round online hackerrank test and verbal reasoning. The technical one includes math and coding test, medium level difficulty. Math problems involve questions like linear algebra, basic probability and statistics.
Contacted by HR, 4 rounds in total. 1st round was CV and basic statistics/coding in python. 2nd round was related to martingale/stochastics.3rd round was on SQL and puzzle. 4th was fit check with India head.
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Introduction, questions related to CV and statistics.
It was a two step process. First a phone call with HR and then a Zoom interveiw with the team. Everything was done remotely, and they were responsive and fast.
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Questions related to coding, finance, math, logic.