Morgan Stanley - Round 1 (DSA + Scenario base ) - cleared
- Experience
- 6 years
- Posted
- 24 Oct 2026
Summary
I cleared the first round interview at Morgan Stanley, which included a Hackerrank test and a 1.5‑hour live interview covering a DP problem and Java trivia.
How it went
The interview lasted for about 1.5 hours. I have clered the hackrank test after that I got invited for round 1. I have 6+ years of experiance
Introduction
- Started of introduction
- The interviewer asked me to walk through the High leval architecture at my current project.
One Hard DSA problems:
Problem Statement:
You are given an m x n 2D grid. You need to find the total number of unique ways to travel from the top-left cell to the bottom-right cell.
You can move in only two directions:
- Right - Move to the next column.
- Down - Move to the next row. You cannot move left or up.
I was able to solved this problem using DP. The interview went deeper than just getting the right answer, they cross-examined my methodology to assess my logical thinking and decision-making.
Java Trivia questions Stream vs Collections Deep dive into HashMap internal Scenario base question on Equals and hashcode method predict the output Sorting on Custom Object(camparable/comparator) Generics in Java
Result: cleared
Questions asked (1)
- 01
Unique Paths in Grid
Data Structures & Algorithms
You are given an
m x n2D grid. Find the total number of unique ways to travel from the top‑left cell to the bottom‑right cell. You can move only in two directions:- Right – move to the next column.
- Down – move to the next row.
You cannot move left or up.