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Morgan Stanley Interview Questions

Problems
29
Topics
8
Hard
1

Below are 29 quant interview questions of the kind asked at Morgan Stanley, spanning Brain Teasers, Probability, Stochastic Processes, Calculus & Linear Algebra, Finance, Options & Greeks, Portfolio & Risk, Statistics. Each comes with a full worked solution — sign in to check your answers and track your progress.

5
Clock Hands at 3:15
Brain TeasersMorgan StanleyBarclays
58%Easy
9
Last Digit of 2^100
Brain TeasersGoldman SachsMorgan Stanley
60%Easy
11
Burning Ropes — 45 Minutes
Brain TeasersGoldman SachsMorgan Stanley
76%Medium
17
Three Switches
Brain TeasersGoldman SachsMorgan Stanley
70%Medium
22
Monty Hall
ProbabilityGoldman SachsMorgan Stanley
56%Easy
32
Two Children
ProbabilityGoldman SachsMorgan Stanley
66%Easy
37
Exponential Survival
ProbabilityDE ShawMorgan Stanley
52%Medium
43
The Shorter Piece
ProbabilityOptiverMorgan Stanley
52%Medium
48
Expectation of GBM
Stochastic ProcessesGoldman SachsMorgan Stanley
59%Hard
49
Variance of Brownian Motion
Stochastic ProcessesGoldman SachsMorgan Stanley
69%Easy
57
Hitting 3 Before 0
Stochastic ProcessesCitadelMorgan Stanley
77%Medium
63
Limit of sin(x)/x
Calculus & Linear AlgebraGoldman SachsMorgan Stanley
91%Easy
69
Limit of (1+1/n)^n
Calculus & Linear AlgebraGoldman SachsMorgan Stanley
55%Easy
71
L'Hôpital — (eˣ−1)/x
Calculus & Linear AlgebraGoldman SachsMorgan Stanley
84%Easy
76
Integrate x·eˣ
Calculus & Linear AlgebraGoldman SachsMorgan Stanley
73%Medium
104
Put-Call Parity
FinanceGoldman SachsMorgan Stanley
66%Easy
105
Black-Scholes ATM Call
FinanceGoldman SachsMorgan Stanley
72%Medium
111
Rule of 72
FinanceGoldman SachsMorgan Stanley
71%Easy
112
Gordon Growth Model
FinanceGoldman SachsMorgan Stanley
62%Medium
115
Current Yield
FinanceBarclaysMorgan Stanley
64%Easy
119
Present Value of an Annuity
FinanceMorgan StanleyJ.P. Morgan
56%Medium
128
Early Exercise of a Call
Options & GreeksGoldman SachsMorgan Stanley
71%Medium
132
Find the Put from Parity
Options & GreeksGoldman SachsMorgan Stanley
58%Easy
136
Covered Call Max Profit
Options & GreeksMorgan StanleyIMC Trading
72%Easy
157
Value at Risk (Normal)
Portfolio & RiskGoldman SachsMorgan StanleyMillennium Management
54%Medium
162
VaR Time Scaling
Portfolio & RiskGoldman SachsMorgan Stanley
52%Medium
175
Variance of a Sum
StatisticsGoldman SachsMorgan Stanley
63%Easy
176
Central Limit Theorem
StatisticsGoldman SachsMorgan Stanley
74%Easy
187
A One-Sample z-Statistic
StatisticsMorgan StanleyGoldman Sachs
75%Easy

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