I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Morningstar (Chicago, IL) in May 2018
Interview
Applied online to the Woburn MA office. Received an email from a recruiter and then had a phone interview the next day. Hiring manager on the phone screen was very nice, talked about the company, asked about projects, and asked a few screening questions about java and regular expressions. Then I had a Skype interview where I spoke to 4 members of the team. The interviewers were friendly. They talked about the company and the product again.
I think most of the questions were designed to see how well you communicated with others and to see if you were a good fit for the culture. There were no behavioral or technical questions asked. I was given a lot of opportunities to ask questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about your projects. Code a function that prints Fizz every third iteration, Buzz on every fifth iteration and FizzBuzz on every iteration divisible by both. Sort an array of anagrams so all anagrams are together. Analyze some script code and explain what it does. And solve a problem that the team deals with on a daily basis.
round 1 Is a 30 minute interview with the senior manager, basically does a deep dive into projects and skills in your resume and then technical questions. round 2 Is onsite
I asked the HR contact what type of questions/assessment the interview would consist of, and they said whiteboarding technical problems. The actual interview surprisingly was questions about my experiences instead.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How did you and your team for this project on your resume decide on your tech stack?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Morningstar (London, England) in Nov 2025
Interview
2 hour interview with different stages:
- review of a take home technical task
- technical questions
- coding problem
- design challenge
- team fit
- questions
I didn't pass the technical part - so never got to team fit/questions stage.
But the first part felt unpleasant due to interviewers attitude.
There were 2 interviewers (Senior Software Engineers) who introduced themselves, but never given me time to introduce myself as well - I had to take initiative myself to do that.
I am not a star developer and I can understand I might have made not a very good impression, but this does not entitle interviewers to treat me without respect. In the end it's them who invited me to the interview.
Sometimes it felt like they didn't even listen to what I was answering and then telling me things as if I didn't told same things before.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Access modifiers in C++
- Polymorphism in C++
- Templates in C++
- Difference between stack and heap
- Difference between malloc and new
- RAAI
- What is deadlock