I applied through university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Morgan Stanley (Bengaluru) in June 2025
Interview
Round 1 - OA:
5/7 debugging
15/26 aptitude
3/3 DSA -> LRU cache, binary search, sliding window all leetcode medium problems
Round 2 -> Tech interview
Asked to implement caching for rdbms - done
Delete node from singly linked list with pointer only to that node present, no head -> direct leetcode easy
Asked few questions about OS CPU Scheduling and DBMS (both relational and nosql) - answered all
Round 2 - HR Interview:
Asked system design for e-commerce app order processing page by taking consistency and optimizations into consideration - solved
Asked few questions about leadership and team management skills
Result: Accepted for SDE apprenticeship at Morgan Stanley
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you dynamically double the memory size of an array in O(1) constant time infinitely?