“I give Carly credit for at least working her way up to her level of incompetence at HP.”
She didn’t work her way to the top at HP. Her first job at HP was CEO. She was at Lucent technologies and that was a disaster, she came to HP for a repeat performance.
HP hired her knowing what she did at Lucent, so arguably she’d reached her level of incompetence at Lucent and HP foolishly thought they would get a different result. In any case, she at least worked her way up the ladder until that point and didn’t get things handed to her the way Hillary did.