internship at Morgan Stanley

poisonedapple · 04-01-2008, 12:37 AM

Hi,
I recently got a second round invitation to Morgan Stanley. They have said in the email that I would be interviewing with Distributed System Development Track. Does anyone have any knowledge of this particular topic or has anyone got any kind of experience in interviewing with Morgan Stanley. I would appreciate any kind of help. Thanks a lot.

timeloso · 04-01-2008, 02:27 AM

I also interviewed for this particular track at MS... basically there was an initial luncheon where some current employees gave us more information about what they do, how the internship program works,etc. Afterwards we had a team activity, followed by 3 interviews (2 technical + 1 company fit interview).

Do you have any questions in particular?

poisonedapple · 04-01-2008, 04:22 PM

It says distributes systems but what kind of technical question did they ask you? The technical interview does it consists of algorithms questions, some basic programming questions or something advanced or is it puzzles. Is it possible you give me some idea on what technical question they asked it would be of great help. Thanks a lot.

hazmat · 04-01-2008, 04:24 PM

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The Distributed Systems Development track takes a deep, fast look at a range of software engineering technologies. The emphasis is on design, architecture and rationale, with the intention of developing excellent design and programming skills. When exploring languages, the focus is on standard idioms, style, compiler and run-time implementation; when exploring databases, the focus is on performance, optimization, and data quality; and when exploring operating systems, the focus is on internals and architecture. Advanced techniques are explored throughout. The curriculum includes intensive and advanced work in C++, Java, Linux/UNIX, Windows, Perl, .NET, C#, object-oriented analysis and design, relational databases, middleware, XML/SOAP, messaging, systems architecture, systems integration and firm-specific tools.

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timeloso · 04-01-2008, 06:55 PM

I think this depends a lot on what the interviewer feels comfortable with. And from what I hear, this is more about them seeing how you analyze problems and whether you learn fast, and not so much about particular technologies. In my experience, I didn't find questions like "what are the N steps of the jsp lifecycle" or something... but rather broader questions on OO design, on data structures, and so on...

No one asked me any puzzles ... but I don't think that's unheard of.