EXPERIENCE AT MORGAN STANLEY PLACEMENT :
Unlike other companies Morgan Stanley planned the placement procedure on two successive days, Sunday and Saturday. As there is no office in Hyderabad and they cant keep visiting AP often, they scheduled the test for both the top universities-OU and JNTU together, venue being our college at OU. On Sunday we started off with the Pre-Placement Talk(PPT) followed by a written test. We had a great twist given by the Managing Director that, they shortlisted only few candidates out of the eligible ones who were present there, to take the written test. Every one was shocked,tensed and what not. At the end of the PPT, they said they were convinced by our behavior and other stuff and thus allowed every one of us to take the written test. HUFF......thought everyone of us :).
Finally the written round began,there was an option given to us regarding the language on which we can take the test. Each of us can choose one from C,C++ and JAVA. Along with 30 technical questions on the chosen language,we had a 10 questions from aptitude and 10 from computer basics. Technical questions covered all the basics and key points of the language in depth. Computer basics covered questions from operating systems,data structures. Aptitude was from the general side.There was no negative marking and the twisting part is that there was cutoff for all the three sections. The test was well organised,we were given OMR sheets to mark answers. The test process completed by 7.30 pm and they announced that results will be posted into the portal by 9.30 pm. By 10 or so the results were out and there were 22 candidates selected from both the universities out of which 16 were from OU and others from JNTU. I was one among the selected ones.
Early the next morning they started off with the further process of selection.We had a technical interview first,which covered all the basics from our academics,along with few coding questions. Each student was interviewed for 30-45 min. Then after an hour, we had the shortlisted candidates announced. I was selected along with 4 other friends from my college and 3 from JNTU were selected. There was no further elimination for these 8 students. The next round was a group activity round. We were divided into two groups of 4 each and were given a scenario where we need to discuss and present a solution to the client which is most appropriate for his present situation. We had 15 min to discuss and 10 minutes to present the solution. This round went on well and we had interaction with the officials also during this round.
Then we had a another technical interview followed immediately by a round of HR interview.Technical interview consisted of puzzles and difficult coding questions. About 3 such questions to each were asked. Then HR was cool and fine..with simple puzzles and casual behavioral questions. When everyone of us were done, they took about an hour of time to decide and finally declared the result. They selected two of us, both being from OU. Unfortunately I couldn't make up but was very happy for my two friends(Sarika and Srinivas) who were selected :) :) .
Unlike other companies Morgan Stanley planned the placement procedure on two successive days, Sunday and Saturday. As there is no office in Hyderabad and they cant keep visiting AP often, they scheduled the test for both the top universities-OU and JNTU together, venue being our college at OU. On Sunday we started off with the Pre-Placement Talk(PPT) followed by a written test. We had a great twist given by the Managing Director that, they shortlisted only few candidates out of the eligible ones who were present there, to take the written test. Every one was shocked,tensed and what not. At the end of the PPT, they said they were convinced by our behavior and other stuff and thus allowed every one of us to take the written test. HUFF......thought everyone of us :).
Finally the written round began,there was an option given to us regarding the language on which we can take the test. Each of us can choose one from C,C++ and JAVA. Along with 30 technical questions on the chosen language,we had a 10 questions from aptitude and 10 from computer basics. Technical questions covered all the basics and key points of the language in depth. Computer basics covered questions from operating systems,data structures. Aptitude was from the general side.There was no negative marking and the twisting part is that there was cutoff for all the three sections. The test was well organised,we were given OMR sheets to mark answers. The test process completed by 7.30 pm and they announced that results will be posted into the portal by 9.30 pm. By 10 or so the results were out and there were 22 candidates selected from both the universities out of which 16 were from OU and others from JNTU. I was one among the selected ones.
Early the next morning they started off with the further process of selection.We had a technical interview first,which covered all the basics from our academics,along with few coding questions. Each student was interviewed for 30-45 min. Then after an hour, we had the shortlisted candidates announced. I was selected along with 4 other friends from my college and 3 from JNTU were selected. There was no further elimination for these 8 students. The next round was a group activity round. We were divided into two groups of 4 each and were given a scenario where we need to discuss and present a solution to the client which is most appropriate for his present situation. We had 15 min to discuss and 10 minutes to present the solution. This round went on well and we had interaction with the officials also during this round.
Then we had a another technical interview followed immediately by a round of HR interview.Technical interview consisted of puzzles and difficult coding questions. About 3 such questions to each were asked. Then HR was cool and fine..with simple puzzles and casual behavioral questions. When everyone of us were done, they took about an hour of time to decide and finally declared the result. They selected two of us, both being from OU. Unfortunately I couldn't make up but was very happy for my two friends(Sarika and Srinivas) who were selected :) :) .
Morgan stanley is always my dream unfortunately i couldn't get into it.Never mind. From experience i can suggest not to be tensed and be confident even if your wrong. Confidence and bold attitude matters
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