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SDE - Intern
Morgan Stanley
3 rounds | 5 Coding
problems
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Journey
Every year, a large number of businesses visit our campus to offer spring internships to final-year students as part of placement drives. Last September, Morgan Stanley spent two months on our campus for a summer internship. Every year, a large number of businesses visit our campus to offer spring internships to final-year students as part of placement drives. Last summer, Morgan Stanley spent two weeks on our campus to offer spring internships.
Due to their CPI requirement of 8.5, the company received more applications than pupils. Therefore, there was a coding+ aptitude assessment test (Online) before to the interview rounds.
Application story
There were many people in our college so the shortlisting criteria is really weird. So, Morgan Stanley came to our campus I already got an offer so I was bit out of practice but the moment I heard MS is coming I started the preparation and revised al the concepts .Luckily, I was shortlisted for the aptitude round as well as interview round.
Why selected/rejected for the role?
I got selected for the role. My learning was just try to take any interview or test as a just a test not how is it going to affect your life. Try to enjoy coding as there is a threshold after that every questions looks pretty easy.
Preparation
Duration: 2 months
Topics: Operating System, Data structures, Algorithms, Oops, Dynamic Programming, Graphs
Tip 1 :Try to build resume with two projects and participation in few hackathons which lets you prepare Projects as well as have some certificates on the resume.
Tip 2 : Try to be consistent with data structures and Algorithms. At least attempt, daily question on leetcode.I would recommend strivers 180 questions list.
Tip 3 :Have a good conceptual understanding of Oops and Operating Systems. This will help you to be prepared with the initial part of the interview.
Application process
Where: Campus
Eligibility: 8
Tip 1:Have at least one good project in your resume. And try to be thorough with it.
Tip 2:Try to keep it as crisp as possible add links to the project deploy. Don't overthink your resume gets better with time.
Interview rounds
01
Round
Medium
Online Coding Interview
Duration120 mins
Interview date9 Sep 2022
Coding problem3
1. Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock III
Hard
10m average time
90% success
0/120
Asked in companies
Given an array "prices". In "prices" the ith element is the price of the stock on the ith day. Your task is to find maximum profit at the end of the ith day. You may complete at max 2 transactions.
You can perform a transition with these conditions -
1. Not allowed to engage in more than 1 transaction at a time, which means if you have bought stock then you can buy another stock before selling the first stock.
2. If you bought a stock at ‘X’ price and sold it at ‘Y’ price then the profits ‘Y - X’.
Note:
It is not compulsory to perform an exact '2' transaction.
2. Maximum Subarray Sum
Moderate
25m average time
75% success
0/80
Asked in companies
Given an array of numbers, find the maximum sum of any contiguous subarray of the array.
For example, given the array [34, -50, 42, 14, -5, 86], the maximum sum would be 137, since we would take elements 42, 14, -5, and 86.
Given the array [-5, -1, -8, -9], the maximum sum would be -1.
Follow up: Do this in O(N) time.
Problem approach
Step 1:It is a pretty standard question and easy too.
Step 2: Still I tried it with two three test cases and wrote the code.
3. Topological Sorting
Moderate
30m average time
60% success
0/80
Asked in companies
Given a DAG(direct acyclic graph), return the Topological Sorting of a given graph.
Problem approach
Step-1: You need to identify that what was going to be used solve with your own test cases
step-2:Then I wrote the code.
02
Round
Medium
Online Coding Test
Duration50 mins
Interview date15 Sep 2022
Coding problem1
Timing:30 minutes
1. Remove Duplicates
Easy
15m average time
80% success
0/40
Asked in companies
Ninja is playing with numbers but hates when he gets duplicate numbers. Ninja is provided an array, and he wants to remove all duplicate elements and return the array, but he has to maintain the order in which the elements were supplied to him.
Problem approach
step1:She asked me to code it and while coding I was explaining my approach to her at the same time
03
Round
Easy
HR Round
Duration30 mins
Interview date18 May 2023
Coding problem1
Only HR-related questions were asked in the final round. The interviewer began by asking me about my various projects, my part in them, and how effective they were in terms of actual use cases
1. Basic HR Questions
Introduce yourself
Explain your projects
What is your role in the projects
Here's your problem of the day 
Solving this problem will increase your chance to get selected in this company
Skill covered: Programming
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