Round-3 (HR Round)

I got a call from HR the very next day(on 21st February) that I got a positive response from the panel and I had my HR Round Scheduled on 22nd Feb.

• I read all the past interview experiences of the HR round of Morgan Stanley.
• I read about the company and the core values of the company.
• I also prepared for some behavioural questions.
• It was again a Zoom call.
• The interviewer joined late and straightaway asked me to introduce myself.
• Then he asked me about the project that I had mentioned in my resume.
• He asked why had used MongoDB over SQL database.

Then he asked me some behavioural questions:

1. What are your aspirations and career plans?
2. Why do you want to join Morgan Stanley?
3. What do you know about the business side of Morgan Stanley?
4. Core values of Morgan Stanley?
5. There are two teams, one working on Python and the other working on C++, which team you prefer to join and why?
6. Give a scenario where you had to sacrifice your ethics.
7. Tell an interesting incident related to your project.
8. Given a scenario where you are working on a team and you have to deliver a product in one month’s deadline to a client but some bugs in the project hypothetically can’t be removed in one month, you have two options – either to deliver the product late or to deliver a product full of bugs, what will you do?

The interview lasted for about 30 minutes. The interviewer asked me if I had any questions and it ended.

After exactly 3 weeks, I received an email that I had been shortlisted for the Summer Analyst role at Morgan Stanley for the Summer of 2024.

Tips: Be patient and keep believing in yourself. Don’t forget to read past interview experiences before your interview.

I applied on the careers page without any referral in October 2023. My resume was shortlisted and I received the mail for the Online Assessment on 12th February 2024.