I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Jan 2013
Interview
Standard 5 interviewers + 1 optional "As Advised" final interview with a Senior VP.
The 5 interviews were with the hiring manager, 1 person from his team, 1 senior HR Director, 2 internal customers.
All interview questions were behavioral and focused on past experiences listed in the resume. no stress questions, no case questions, and no "prove you know your technical stuff" questions. Probably the toughest questions were with the SVP who poked a bit deeper into why they should hire me than i'd expected.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The follow-up question to "describe your top two biggest failures" was "how did you manage your role/job to recover from those failures"