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Painter's Partition Screen, Same-Day Two-Round Loop, Then the AA Round

MicrosoftSoftware Engineer · Senior+ · Onsite · Apr 2026

I applied for a Senior Software Engineer opening through the careers portal. About a week later a recruiter phoned to set up a technical screen, and the screen itself took place a week after that. This was my first ever Microsoft interview, so I was thrilled and nervous in equal measure. Technical Screen round The screen was a single coding problem, labelled LeetCode easy. I didn't recognize it a…

Shared by a candidate · reported Apr 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.