55 curated coding interview questions directly asked in Morgan Stanley technical rounds, sorted by frequency with recency and difficulty diagnostics.
| ID | Problem | Difficulty | Topic | Pattern | Acceptance | Frequency | Recency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 740 | Delete and Earn | Medium | Core DSA | Implementation / Reasoning | 57.2% | 100.0% | 3m |
| 1626 | Best Team With No Conflicts | Medium | Core DSA | Implementation / Reasoning | 50.7% | 100.0% | all |
| 1964 | Find the Longest Valid Obstacle Course at Each Position | Hard | Strings; Trees; Graphs | Hashing / Sliding Window; DFS / BFS; BFS / DFS / Topological Sort | 62.5% | 87.5% | all |
| 2152 | Minimum Number of Lines to Cover Points | Medium | Arrays | Sorting / Prefix / Scan | 44.0% | 87.5% | all |
| 1217 | Minimum Cost to Move Chips to The Same Position | Easy | Arrays | Sorting / Prefix / Scan | 72.9% | 87.5% | all |
| 2395 | Find Subarrays With Equal Sum | Easy | Arrays | Sorting / Prefix / Scan | 67.0% | 87.5% | all |
| 2432 | The Employee That Worked on the Longest Task | Easy | Core DSA | Implementation / Reasoning | 51.7% | 87.5% | all |
| 2433 | Find The Original Array of Prefix Xor | Medium | Arrays | Sorting / Prefix / Scan | 88.4% | 87.5% | all |
| 1470 | Shuffle the Array | Easy | Arrays | Sorting / Prefix / Scan | 88.8% | 75.0% | 3m |
| 9 | Palindrome Number | Easy | Strings | Hashing / Sliding Window | 60.6% | 75.0% | 6m |
| 1 | Two Sum | Easy | Arrays | Sorting / Prefix / Scan; Two Pointers | 57.5% | 75.0% | 6m |
| 143 | Reorder List | Medium | Linked List | Two Pointers | 65.3% | 75.0% | 6m |
| 19 | Remove Nth Node From End of List | Medium | Trees; Linked List | DFS / BFS; Two Pointers | 51.6% | 75.0% | 6m |
| 121 | Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock | Easy | Core DSA | Implementation / Reasoning | 56.8% | 75.0% | 6m |
| 3 | Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters | Medium | Strings; Trees | Hashing / Sliding Window; DFS / BFS; Sliding Window | 39.1% | 75.0% | all |
| 2444 | Count Subarrays With Fixed Bounds | Hard | Arrays | Sorting / Prefix / Scan | 69.2% | 75.0% | all |
| 55 | Jump Game | Medium | Greedy | Greedy | 40.9% | 62.5% | all |
| 56 | Merge Intervals | Medium | Arrays | Sorting / Prefix / Scan | 51.8% | 62.5% | all |
| 75 | Sort Colors | Medium | Arrays | Sorting / Prefix / Scan | 69.6% | 62.5% | all |
| 138 | Copy List with Random Pointer | Medium | Linked List | Two Pointers | 62.9% | 62.5% | all |
| 146 | LRU Cache | Medium | Design | Data Structure Design | 47.4% | 62.5% | all |
| 215 | Kth Largest Element in an Array | Medium | Arrays; Heap | Sorting / Prefix / Scan; Priority Queue | 68.9% | 62.5% | all |
| 15 | 3Sum | Medium | Arrays | Sorting / Prefix / Scan | 39.1% | 62.5% | all |
| 49 | Group Anagrams | Medium | Strings | Hashing / Sliding Window | 72.6% | 62.5% | all |
| 936 | Stamping The Sequence | Hard | Core DSA | Implementation / Reasoning | 62.3% | 62.5% | all |
| 2607 | Make K-Subarray Sums Equal | Medium | Arrays | Sorting / Prefix / Scan | 38.6% | 62.5% | all |
| 54 | Spiral Matrix | Medium | Arrays | Sorting / Prefix / Scan | 56.8% | 62.5% | all |
| 387 | First Unique Character in a String | Easy | Strings | Hashing / Sliding Window | 65.5% | 62.5% | all |
| 739 | Daily Temperatures | Medium | Stack / Queue | Monotonic Stack / Simulation | 68.7% | 62.5% | all |
| 496 | Next Greater Element I | Easy | Stack / Queue | Monotonic Stack / Simulation | 76.1% | 50.0% | all |
| 525 | Contiguous Array | Medium | Arrays | Sorting / Prefix / Scan | 51.3% | 50.0% | all |
| 253 | Meeting Rooms II | Medium | Greedy | Greedy | 52.7% | 50.0% | all |
| 992 | Subarrays with K Different Integers | Hard | Arrays | Sorting / Prefix / Scan | 68.1% | 50.0% | all |
| 26 | Remove Duplicates from Sorted Array | Easy | Arrays | Sorting / Prefix / Scan; Two Pointers | 62.8% | 50.0% | all |
| 22 | Generate Parentheses | Medium | Strings | Hashing / Sliding Window | 78.7% | 50.0% | all |
| 1539 | Kth Missing Positive Number | Easy | Arrays; Heap | Sorting / Prefix / Scan; Priority Queue | 63.5% | 50.0% | all |
| 518 | Coin Change II | Medium | Dynamic Programming | State Transition | 60.0% | 50.0% | all |
| 79 | Word Search | Medium | Strings; Binary Search | Hashing / Sliding Window; Binary Search | 47.4% | 50.0% | all |
| 1658 | Minimum Operations to Reduce X to Zero | Medium | Arrays | Sorting / Prefix / Scan | 40.6% | 50.0% | all |
| 1209 | Remove All Adjacent Duplicates in String II | Medium | Arrays; Strings | Sorting / Prefix / Scan; Hashing / Sliding Window | 61.3% | 50.0% | all |
| 1143 | Longest Common Subsequence | Medium | Core DSA | Implementation / Reasoning | 59.2% | 50.0% | all |
| 556 | Next Greater Element III | Medium | Stack / Queue | Monotonic Stack / Simulation | 35.3% | 50.0% | all |
| 3144 | Minimum Substring Partition of Equal Character Frequency | Medium | Arrays; Strings; Trees; Dynamic Programming | Sorting / Prefix / Scan; Hashing / Sliding Window; DFS / BFS; State Transition | 40.3% | 50.0% | all |
| 1529 | Minimum Suffix Flips | Medium | Arrays | Sorting / Prefix / Scan | 73.9% | 50.0% | all |
| 503 | Next Greater Element II | Medium | Stack / Queue | Monotonic Stack / Simulation | 68.4% | 50.0% | all |
| 1326 | Minimum Number of Taps to Open to Water a Garden | Hard | Arrays | Sorting / Prefix / Scan | 51.0% | 50.0% | all |
| 1481 | Least Number of Unique Integers after K Removals | Medium | Core DSA | Implementation / Reasoning | 63.8% | 50.0% | all |
| 135 | Candy | Hard | Core DSA | Implementation / Reasoning | 48.5% | 50.0% | all |
| 5 | Longest Palindromic Substring | Medium | Strings; Trees | Hashing / Sliding Window; DFS / BFS | 37.8% | 50.0% | all |
| 152 | Maximum Product Subarray | Medium | Arrays | Sorting / Prefix / Scan | 36.4% | 50.0% | all |
| 234 | Palindrome Linked List | Easy | Strings; Linked List | Hashing / Sliding Window; Two Pointers | 58.0% | 50.0% | all |
| 300 | Longest Increasing Subsequence | Medium | Dynamic Programming | State Transition | 59.4% | 50.0% | all |
| 169 | Majority Element | Easy | Core DSA | Implementation / Reasoning | 66.3% | 50.0% | all |
| 907 | Sum of Subarray Minimums | Medium | Arrays | Sorting / Prefix / Scan | 38.6% | 50.0% | all |
| 322 | Coin Change | Medium | Dynamic Programming | State Transition | 48.4% | 50.0% | all |