Morgan Stanley Interview Experience

Hi All,

Today I have given Morgan Stanley interview for Software Engineer postion. It was more of like a hiring drive.

Round 1:

Question1: Given an array of integers of positive numbers. Find the closest number with average of those numbers

Question2: Given the closing prices of a stock on a given day. Find the buying and selling day to maximize the profit. eg: 12, 5, 15, 22 output: [1, 3]

Then some Java related questions for around 10 mins

Then the interviwer asked for the stack implementation.

Verdict: Rejected.

Here's my anaysis what went wrong: Total Interview time: 45 mins Interviwer was in very hurry, firstly he joined 5 mins late for the interview. Then we greeted each other followed by introduction. This eat up around 5 more minutes. Total time left: 35 min Secondly the interviwer was not ready with questions itself, when i ask him some doubt eg: input can be pos/neg, sample input/output. He was taking sometime to give proper responses. He was in very hurry, i told him let me explain the approach first but he kept on insisting to code it. I mean why?? without discussing approach how do you even know solution will work or not, or can be furthure enchanced. When i coded the solution, he started pointing out minor details like loop can be started from index 1 not from 0 also, I agreed. But how does it improve Time complexity, I mean wtf is this? it seems he was just trying to be more smarter.

Then on the stack implementation, I provided him the code and he was like this is not traditional appraoch, I was like so..?? The code is correct it does the job and anyhow, i don't remember the actual solution, whatever is coming to my mind i'm coding it infront of you.

Overall I feel like a bad interviwer has just ruined an opportunity