MS phone interview

35min

warm-up

1. introduce yourself
2. why Morgan Stanley

projects

1. introduce your first projects，the process of your project(upstream and downstream)
2. the usage of kafka in your project
3. tell me about the multistreaming in your first project
4. how do you calculate the offsets of kafka
5. how many partitions each topic?
6. what's the data volume of your project?

Java

1. how hashmap works
2. tell me the detail of hashmap resize process
3. do you know design patterns，which one mostly used，tell me the using scenario

databases

1. tell me about indexs，how it works

data structure

1. sort algorithms and their time complexity
2. tell me the details of merge sort
3. which are stable
4. is bubble sort stable, why
5. climbing stairs. each time one step or two step. how to calculate the ways to the final stair? time complexity? for loop end statement?

open questions and behaviorl questions

1. Given a scenario, you have all kinds of complex data. how to design a recommanding system
2. tell me situation you have conflict with others
3. tell me the difficult times you faced with. did you communicate with others. how did you solved it