How safe is your job at Microsoft?
Your Engineering job at Microsoft in India has a risk score of 50/100 — on the watchlist.
The most recent reported layoff hit around 277 roles on September 22, 2026. 42 people have reported cuts here in the past 90 days.
Employee sentiment is on edge and trending nervous (based on 41 employee votes plus data signals).
Check the detailed report below for the full breakdown.
No Engineering- or India-specific signals for Microsoft yet — showing the company-wide outlook.
Current risk score
0 = safer outlook, 100 = higher layoff risk. Small figure = 7-day change.
Latest confirmed layoff
Confirmed Sep 22, 2026 · WA ESD WARN
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How's the vibe in Microsoft?
+11.8% vs estimates
5,077 confirmed layoffs in last 180 days — about 2.2% of the workforce
35 layoff-related community post(s) this week
Recent layoff events
Latest disclosed workforce actions affecting this company.
EPS
Est: $4.24
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Est: $4.07
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Microsoft layoff risk analysis
Microsoft risk trend over the last 90 days
Across the last 80 days of scoring, Microsoft's layoff risk eased 6 points, moving from 56 on July 15, 2026 to 50 today. It peaked at 81 on July 17, 2026 and bottomed out at 50 on October 10, 2026, a 31-point spread over the period. That leaves Microsoft in the moderate band today, and the size of the swing means the current reading is worth re-checking weekly rather than treating as settled.
Microsoft layoff history
PinkSlip has recorded 5 confirmed layoff events at Microsoft, running from June 2025 to September 2026. Together they account for roughly 14,424 disclosed roles, or about 6.3% of an estimated 228,000-person workforce. Scoring uses that share rather than the raw number, because the same headcount means very different things at a 10,000-person company and a 200,000-person one. Sources: WA ESD WARN, layoffs.fyi. Recent events weigh more than older ones — each decays on a half-life instead of dropping out on a fixed date — so the most recent filing on September 22, 2026 carries the most weight in today's score.
How Microsoft compares to other tech employers
Microsoft (MSFT) is an Enterprise Software company tracked as part of the NASDAQ-100 and currently scores 50 out of 100, where 0 is the safest reading and 100 the riskiest. That is riskier than 93% of the 89 tech employers PinkSlip tracks. Over the past week the score eased 2 points, and over the past month it eased 25 points.
What is driving the Microsoft score
Microsoft's current reading is supported from two independent directions: confirmed public filings, and 42 anonymous reports submitted by people in the past 90 days. Agreement between a public record and first-hand accounts is the strongest configuration the model recognises. Absence of reports is deliberately not treated as evidence of safety — a quiet company and an unobserved one look identical in public data, so the model never discounts risk for silence alone. At this level the signals do not suggest imminent action, though the score is recomputed every morning and a single filing or earnings miss can move it quickly.
Layoffs in News: Microsoft
Aggregated daily from Google News. Headline volume feeds the sentiment signal, a small part of the score — confirmed layoff events and WARN filings move it far more.
Microsoft layoff risk — frequently asked questions
Has Microsoft had layoffs recently?
PinkSlip has tracked 5 layoff events at Microsoft in the past year, the latest on September 22, 2026, totalling roughly 14,424 disclosed roles. Undisclosed headcounts are excluded from that total, so treat it as a floor rather than a full count.
How is the Microsoft layoff risk score calculated?
PinkSlip blends 10+ public data sources — historical layoff events, quarterly earnings, hiring and news signals, and anonymous crowd reports — into a single 0–100 layoff risk score. Signals are weighted by how predictive they have been historically, and each one decays on a half-life as it ages rather than expiring on a fixed date — so a layoff announced last month weighs roughly twice as much as the same layoff two months earlier, and fades out gradually instead of disappearing overnight.
How often does the Microsoft risk score update?
Every day. An automated job re-scrapes the public sources each morning and recomputes every tracked company's score, so the 7-day movement shown above always compares against freshly ingested data. Quarterly earnings refresh on each company's own reporting schedule.
Where does PinkSlip's Microsoft layoff data come from?
The layoff events listed above are sourced from WA ESD WARN, layoffs.fyi. Across all companies PinkSlip aggregates state WARN notices, layoffs.fyi, quarterly earnings filings, and layoff coverage from major business and tech outlets. Everything is public data — no employer submissions, and no paywalled sources.