Diversity and inclusion

Microsoft hires and develops the best talent, bringing a wide range of perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences to the industry. Employees who represent the markets we serve give us consumer insight, creativity, and real-time market innovation.

We’re taking action

Leadership
Inclusive technology
Diversity and inclusion training
Flexible working

We start with our senior-most leaders. Microsoft’s Board of Directors is one of the most diverse of any technology company today, with women and racial and ethnic minorities holding nine of our 12 positions.
At Microsoft, our diverse backgrounds are helping build better technology. We share stories of how our technological developments are changing our future and empowering us all.
More than 98% of employees have completed required D&I learning courses on allyship, covering, privilege, and unconscious bias in the workplace. We've also made these publicly available as part of our efforts to share best practices with the industry.
Our flexible work arrangements, programs, and tools help us retain top talent and offer employees greater work life balance. These include access to extensive resources and referral services, and generous maternity and paternity leave policies.

We start with our senior-most leaders. Microsoft’s Board of Directors is one of the most diverse of any technology company today, with women and racial and ethnic minorities holding nine of our 12 positions.
At Microsoft, our diverse backgrounds are helping build better technology. We share stories of how our technological developments are changing our future and empowering us all.
More than 98% of employees have completed required D&I learning courses on allyship, covering, privilege, and unconscious bias in the workplace. We've also made these publicly available as part of our efforts to share best practices with the industry.
Our flexible work arrangements, programs, and tools help us retain top talent and offer employees greater work life balance. These include access to extensive resources and referral services, and generous maternity and paternity leave policies.

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Microsoft communities

Microsoft offers close to 50 community groups across the company for career development, support, networking opportunities, mentoring, community participation, product input, and assistance in activities that promote cultural awareness. Join an existing group or start your own.
100% empowered by employees

Microsoft offers 9 global Employee Resource Groups, along with many additional regional and in-business chapters and employee network groups, providing career development, support, networking opportunities, mentoring, community connection. Join an existing group or start your own.

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Investing in an inclusive future

Military community

The Microsoft Software and Systems Academy (MSSA) provides technical training that enables participants to leverage their core skills and interests to chart — and start — their career journey in IT.
Inclusive hiring programs

In order to build the best products for everyone, Microsoft needs a diverse and inclusive workforce across all abilities, and Microsoft has an unwavering commitment to providing opportunities for all.
A range of experiences

We are committed to hiring individuals from communities that are underrepresented in STEM fields. We value a broad range of perspectives and contributions connect with universities in North America and globally.
Our D&I journey

Our mission is deeply inclusive: empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Each of us—no matter what level, role or function—plays an active role in helping us innovate for inclusion so that everyone can bring all of who they are and do their best work.

Beyond Microsoft

The issues behind social and economic inequality are bigger than any one organization can tackle alone. We have an opportunity—and an obligation—to foster collective movement towards greater diversity and inclusion through our actions and partnerships.
Explore Microsoft Program

This summer internship program exposes college freshman and sophomores to the field of software development, and encourages them to pursue degrees in computer science, computer engineering, and related technical disciplines through group projects and hands-on training.
Microsoft LEAP apprenticeship program

Microsoft Leap’s mission is to recruit, develop, and upskill talent that might not traditionally have pathways into technology careers. Our program is designed to be an integrated learning experience combining classroom learning (in person or virtual) with on-the-job training.
Digital skills for youth

From basic digital literacy to advanced computer science, Microsoft partners globally with nonprofits, governments, educators, and businesses to equip all youth with digital skills and increase equitable access to inclusive computer science education.

Stories of impact

Jenny Lay-Flurrie

Director of Accessibility

Our commitment to empowering every person and organization on the planet to achieve more includes building out accessibility features in our existing products and services.
Jenny Leah

Director of Marketing

Uncovering the stories of women, and celebrating them, is key for the next generation to have female role models to help realize they can do it too.

Stories as diverse as our workforce

Written in the sky

As a Microsoft engineer and member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee, Tracy Monteith found a way to fuse tradition and technology using Microsoft language tools in his story illustrated by Gregg Deal.
Neurodiversity in the workplace: How Cecilia Fang is smashing the stigma

After being diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), this Microsoft ANZ employee was determined to keep bringing her whole self to work.
Experiencing both sides

Ana Sofia Gonzalez grew up in Mexico but went to school in El Paso. Discover how moving between two cultures helped make her a better designer in her illustrated story by Daiana Ruíz.
A journey to racial awareness

For Digital Account Executive Douglas Neres, starting the first Blacks at Microsoft chapter in Latin America has brought him closer to his cultural identity and community.