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      Quantitative Finance Summer Interview

      8 Nov 2015
      Anonymous interview candidate
      New York, NY
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (New York, NY) in Oct 2015

      Interview

      Firstly walk through resume, then ask about five machine learning model, then describe a project in resume, and ask about the very details, then C++ technical problems, mostly about C++ 11 features.

      Interview questions [3]

      Question 1

      Describe the five popular machine learning models
      Answer question

      Question 2

      What if I throw an exception in a destructor
      Answer question

      Question 3

      Talk about smart pointer
      Answer question

      Other Quantitative Finance Summer interview reviews for Morgan Stanley

      Quantitative Finance Summer Interview

      17 Feb 2021
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Morgan Stanley

      Interview

      A 30-min Phone Call. One week after the hirevue. The interviewer is kind and gave some hints. But the process is really slow. After one month, I was told to be refused.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Find a median in an array.
      Answer question

      Quantitative Finance, Summer Interview

      17 Feb 2016
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Los Angeles, CA
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (Los Angeles, CA) in Nov 2015

      Interview

      The Morgan Stanley guy introduced his team and ask basic questions about the resume. Then, he asked about technical questions, including finance, coding, and probability. Finally, Q&A about the company and the team. It took about 40 minutes in total. There was only one guy on the phone. Not easy >_<

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      Definition and calculating methods of VaR
      Answer question

      Question 2

      It takes 10 minutes for a bear to cross a road, where on average every 5 minutes a car passing by. What's the probability for the bear to safely cross the road?
      1 Answer
      1

      Quantitative Finance Summer Interview

      24 Dec 2015
      Anonymous interview candidate
      New York, NY
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (New York, NY) in Nov 2015

      Interview

      Applied both online and on the university career site. Then I was informed the time and the location to take the exam as well as a short instruction about the topics in the exam including mathematics, finance, mathematic finance and programming.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Options, Brownian Motions, Martingale, Probabilities, C++ and etc.
      Answer question

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