I was contracting at HP the day she was announced.
Every engineer on the floor stood up and said “WTF”
HP died that day.
The 10k employees forced to train their replacements should have put her in prison.
I was an employee during that time as well as during the “merger” with Compaq. It became very political and a whole bunch of us high performers were shown the door in favor of Compaq folks who we said shoot, shoot, shoot, aim
Crazy times back then, people were used to shifting jobs every year as the norm, and that was before her time there