I applied on the Microsoft careers page. I had a call with the recruiter, it was a very quick call. Just to let me know that they liked my CV, wanted to introduce himself and have a quick chat with me. Then basically just told me that he'll set up a meeting for a technical interview. A few weeks later I had 30-minute interview with a senior member on the team. The interviewer was very friendly and made me feel at ease. The questions were fairly simple in my opinion, having 9 years of experience total and 2.5 years with Azure. The interviewer didn't give off much at the end of the interview but wished me good luck in the rest of the process. I checked in with my recruiter a couple times over the next couple of weeks for a status update. I was then invited to do a hiring day which consisted of three 45 minute interviews back to back . The first interview I did was a more advanced technical interview. We went quite a bit deeper on subjects within Azure. I made a point to stick to the STAR answering method. When I didn't know a question, I didn't babble on lying about it. I apologised and said I didn't know the answer to the question, but detailed resources that I would use to start troubleshooting and figuring it out. Whenever I had any related experiences I brought those up, detailed the situation, what I needed to do, how I went about doing it and the result. The second interview was a project presentation. I had to give a sales/business style presentation on a project I'd recently done. How I decided to design the architecture solution and presented a visio file. I discussed the costs and how we settled on those, how it would be supported and other design reasons. Note that this was aimed for a non-technical type interview. They wanted to understand my business presentation skills for all levels of attendees. After the project presentation was finished I was asked a few more questions to demonstrate scenarios I'd had with customers. Giving examples of negotiations, discovery, agreeing on points which needed to be fixed, how we'd get there, set expectations etc. All the usual stuff you'd expect. Then I had a manager interview to finish where I was asked more about my previous experiences, my motivations, mindset, aspirations. I spoke about my values, how they aligned with Microsoft values, how I get my enjoyment from my work, examples of how I've helped build team morale and motivations within work, improvements I've made etc. After this hiring day, it took about 3-4 weeks for the positive feedback from my recruiter. Negotiations and offer then happened over the following two weeks.