How safe is your job at Microsoft?
Your Engineering job at Microsoft in India has a risk score of 57/100 — on the watchlist. That's riskier than 96% of the 78 tech companies we track.
The most recent reported layoff hit around 4,800 roles on July 6, 2026. 6 people have reported cuts here in the past 30 days.
Employee sentiment is alarmed right now — many are bracing for further cuts (based on 7 employee votes plus data signals).
Check the detailed report below for the full breakdown.
Current risk score
0 = safer outlook, 100 = higher layoff risk. Small figure = 7-day change.
Latest confirmed layoff
Confirmed Jul 6, 2026 · ~2% of staff · layoffs.fyi
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6 layoff report(s) from employees in last 30 days
5 of 7 employees voting nervous or panicked alongside 6 report(s)
Recent layoff events
Latest disclosed workforce actions affecting this company.
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Microsoft layoff risk analysis
Microsoft risk trend over the last 90 days
Across the last 82 days of scoring, Microsoft's layoff risk climbed 26 points, moving from 32 on June 6, 2026 to 58 today. It peaked at 70 on July 21, 2026 and bottomed out at 30 on June 18, 2026, a 40-point spread over the period. That leaves Microsoft in the elevated 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 May 2025 to July 2026. Together they account for roughly 20,147 disclosed roles, or about 8.8% 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. Source: 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 July 6, 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 57 out of 100, where 0 is the safest reading and 100 the riskiest. That is riskier than 96% of the 78 tech employers PinkSlip tracks. Over the past week the score climbed 6 points, and over the past month it eased 11 points. The two windows disagree, which usually means a recent signal is pushing against the established trend — worth watching rather than acting on yet.
What is driving the Microsoft score
Microsoft's current reading is supported from two independent directions: confirmed public filings, and 6 anonymous reports submitted by people in the past 30 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 practical read is not "a layoff is coming" but "keep options warm": refresh your CV, keep your network active, and re-check this page weekly, since the score is recomputed every morning.
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 July 6, 2026, totalling roughly 20,147 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 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.