Investment Banking Analyst applicants have rated the interview process at Morgan Stanley with 5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Investment Banking Analyst roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Morgan Stanley overall takes an average of 33 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Morgan Stanley as a Investment Banking Analyst according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 50%
One on one interview: 50%
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I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (Beijing, Beijing)
Interview
it is very stressing but also you can learn a lot from the process. i practised a lot before taking the interview and fortunately i got the offer so everything is worthy.
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).
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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.
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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.