My career at one point was a 5 year job, then 3 years, then 1 year, then 3 years, then 2 years, and finally 2 years. The first time I interviewed (and failed)

My career at one point was a 5 year job, then 3 years, then 1 year, then 3 years, then 2 years, and finally 2 years. The first time I interviewed (and failed) with Microsoft, the final stage of the interview was with a guy who had been with Microsoft for 20+ years. He looked at my resume and grilled me about job hopping (even asking me about individual positions and why I left). Ironically, I didn't even job hop just for salary, I did it because of layoffs or really toxic environments. However, all that job hopping was also crucial to gain different experiences I have today in different technologies, patterns, and sets of scale I would have never gotten in my original company. While explaining this to the interviewer, he started talking about how he started in the operating systems division, then moved to security, then moved to office, now works in an Azure area. He failed to really understand that he was doing the equivalent of job hopping in order to facilitate his own technical growth, and the majority of us do not work in companies where we are able to side-load into vastly different domains without changing high level companies or losing RSUs. I don't think this was the reason I failed the interview (I didn't interview well that time), but I do think about that.