This is the person who holds the top job at an organization that filed 5,107 certified H-1B Labor Condition Applications in federal fiscal year 2026 (through June 30, 2026). The figures below come from the U.S. Department of Labor's and USCIS's own public data. Filing H-1B applications is legal; this report shows who is accountable for the organization and what the public record says about its use of the program.
Names and titles are as published in the linked sources on the date checked. Leadership changes; if something here is out of date, tell us in the comments below and we will correct it.
Percentages are of the 4,829 filings that report a wage level; 278 filings report none. For comparison, 19.4% of all certified FY2026 H-1B filings nationwide are Level I.
| Occupation (DOL SOC title) | Filings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Software Developers | 3,211 | 62.9% |
| Data Scientists | 436 | 8.5% |
| Information Technology Project Managers | 323 | 6.3% |
| Electrical Engineers | 123 | 2.4% |
| Business Intelligence Analysts | 119 | 2.3% |
| Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists | 103 | 2.0% |
| Computer Systems Engineers/Architects | 99 | 1.9% |
| Sales Engineers | 89 | 1.7% |
| State | Filings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| WA | 3,519 | 68.9% |
| CA | 639 | 12.5% |
| TX | 265 | 5.2% |
| GA | 147 | 2.9% |
| NY | 106 | 2.1% |
| NC | 88 | 1.7% |
The organization's official jobs site is https://apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers. It is a custom site whose postings can't be counted automatically, so we publish the link without a count. Checked October 19, 2026.
Two public records, shown next to the H-1B data above. Neither one says anything about H-1B workers. They are listed because the same organization appears in all three.
Employers planning a mass layoff or closure must notify the state. We found 39 notices that match this organization's name, covering 8,239 employees in total, of which 882 are in notices dated on or after October 1, 2025 (the start of the FY2026 H-1B filing period).
| State | Notices | Employees | Since Oct 1, 2025 | Latest notice |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| California | 24 | 321 | — | Jun 2, 2025 |
| Washington | 15 | 7,918 | 882 (2 notices) | Sep 22, 2026 |
Largest notices:
| Notice date | Employer as named in the notice | Place | Employees | State record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 2026 | Microsoft | Redmond | 277 | WA agency file |
| Jul 6, 2026 | Microsoft | Redmond | 605 | WA agency file |
| Jul 2, 2025 | Microsoft | Redmond and Bellevue | 830 | WA agency file |
| Jun 2, 2025 | Microsoft | Redmond | 305 | WA agency file |
| May 13, 2025 | Microsoft | Redmond | 1,985 | WA agency file |
| Mar 27, 2023 | Microsoft | Redmond and Bellevue | 559 | WA agency file |
| Mar 6, 2023 | Microsoft | Redmond, Bellevue, Issaquah | 689 | WA agency file |
| Feb 9, 2023 | Microsoft | Redmond, Bellevue, Issaquah | 617 | WA agency file |
| Jan 18, 2023 | Microsoft | Redmond, Bellevue, Issaquah | 878 | WA agency file |
| Oct 30, 2014 | Microsoft | Redmond | 635 | WA agency file |
A WARN notice reports a planned layoff or closure at a site. It does not say who was laid off, why, or that anyone held a visa. These come only from the state agencies' own lists, for Texas (from January 2023), California (from July 2022), New Jersey (from January 2023), Washington (searched by employer name). Other states are not included, so a total here is a floor, and an absence of notices means nothing. Each state's notice covers workers at that state's own sites, so one round of layoffs can appear in several states' lists on the same date. This page adds up the notices as filed and does not treat them as a single event.
The U.S. Department of Labor's Trade Adjustment Assistance program investigated petitions from worker groups who lost jobs. For this organization it certified 2 petitions between 2018 and 2021, with an estimated 187 workers covered and these countries named in DOL's records: China.
| DOL petition | Site | Determined | Basis of certification | Countries | Est. workers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TA-W 97003 | FARGO, ND | Nov 5, 2021 | shift in production or services | China | 45 |
| TA-W 93056 | WILSONVILLE, OR | Apr 12, 2018 | shift in production or services | China | 142 |
Source: DOL Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance petition records, 1975 to 2022 (the program's authorization lapsed July 1, 2022). A certification is DOL's finding that a worker group's job losses were related to trade, for example imports or a shift of production or services to another country. "Est. workers" is DOL's estimate of workers separated from trade-affected employment; per DOL it includes reductions through attrition and is not a calculation of layoffs. DOL reissues a determination whenever it is revised, so estimates can differ between versions; a range means the versions disagree. The records name no H-1B workers and say nothing about who replaced anyone. Each TA-W link opens DOL's determination notice in the Federal Register, which lists the petition number, firm, location and impact date; the notice may cover many other companies.
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