Akshat Mehta: Summer Intern at Morgan Stanley
Akshat Mehta, studying in IIT Kanpur as a student in Akshat Mehta Roll No. 210092 Branch ME Programme B.Tech will do summer internship in Morgan Stanley (Strats & Quant) profile at Morgan Stanley. Here are some brief insights.
Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:
Morgan Stanley (Strats & Quant) Goldman Sachs (Software)
Insights on the Selection Process
For Morgan Stanley, the selection process revolves around the online test gauging various skills like mental aptitude, coding, probability/stats. In interviews emphasis was given on puzzles and probability questions with a few questions on the resume. The students should be well versed with their projects and it is better if project topics are diverse. At Goldman Sachs, since the role was software based, the majority of the questions were DSA problems in addition to some resume based questions.
Preparation Resources
Puzzles and Probability - 50 Challenging Problems in Probability Brainstellar - Easy & Medium PuzzledQuant DSA - InterviewBit GFG - Self paced DSA course Striver’s SDE Sheet(192 questions) &YouTube Playlists on DP, Graphs Codeforces
Advice for students (dos and don’ts)?
Set your goals and keep working...Luck is a manifestation of your hard work and it will be there when you need it..you have to give your best! Do DSA well, and do Puzzles and Probability problems in parallel so you are not bored doing one thing only. Prepare yourself comprehensively for the interviews and finally presentation is very important. Explain your thought process clearly and in a step by step manner trying that the interview flows smoothly like a conversation and not a QnA session. During preparation don’t get stuck on one question for too long, because time is limited and it might lead to frustration. Don’t leave a question for the next day, instead look at the solution if you can't get it and revise it after a few days. Also while doing DSA(InterviewBit) after learning a bit of arrays(searching and sorting) and linked lists, start with trees, graphs, dp and spend a lot of time on them because these topics are difficult and time consuming.