An hour-long phone interview included discussions on the role and some technical questions.

This was followed by a four-hour in-person interview with a number of interviewers.

This company fails to realize that interviewing is a two-way street. The interviewers were dismissive, arrogant, and disorganized. Their technical questions were mostly designed to trick and belittle candidates.

This paints a very clear picture of a toxic company culture.

Wasting a personal day to attend this interview made me realize that Morgan Stanley is only interested in hiring cheap, young developers who may be too inexperienced to realize that there are, at any given time, dozens of better companies in Montreal searching for skilled employees.

They asked me to give the result of some terrible spaghetti code. They asked me academic trick questions that I vaguely recalled from my undergraduate CS degree. Finally, they became noticeably concerned about my candidacy when I couldn't meaningfully discuss other areas of development that they knew of, which I have no experience.