The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (Menlo Park, CA) in Jan 2012
Interview
Process:
- Began with an info session
- On campus coffee chats
- On campus interview that lasted about 30 minutes
- Interviewer was nice, progressed through the process as though it was a casual conversation
- Asked a variety of behavioral, technical and even a market sizing question
- Overall, people at the office are nice, chill, but smart and hardworking
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
What sport do you like most? What team is your favorite? How many fans do you think there are for that team in the entire world?
If you were spreading comps and you were looking at the market cap and the enterprise value, which do you think would be higher and what would cause you to raise a red flag?
1. HR call of around 20 minutes for general basic questions: availability, why MS, why Budapest, what is M&A...
2. Technical Interview with London employee: very intense and many typical IB questions; both theoretical (types of debt, explain valuation methods with detail and reasoning of them...) and practical (pen and paper for calculations).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why MS, why Budapest, types of debt, valuation methods...
1) HireVue 2) First phone interview with basic questions: walk me through your resume/tell me about yourself, what are the different valuation methods and rank, what does a coffee shop have to think about day to day. 3) superday is3 interviews back to back: 1 behavioural, 1 technical, 1 market/M&A.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
walk me through your resume, what is a merger or an acquisition you would do, go through the three financial statements
It was standard from the guides, if you have the 400 question guide you will be totally fine, its nothing really beyond that at the interviews. You don't need to fundamentally understand banking.
