No, she was not at HP but at AT&T, first as a secretary and then in sales when it was transitioning to Lucent. Of course she had degrees - is there something wrong with that? I’m about the same age, and like it or not, even women with multiple degrees often had to start out as administrative assistants. This is not the case now, fortunately.
Well I didn’t say there was anything wrong with anything. I just pointed out that she didn’t work herself up from secretary to CEO in the same company. From what I’ve read, Carly worked as a secretary for six months at a real estate office in Palo Alto to help pay for her business degree.
She worked her way up in sales at ATT to President of some part of Lucent before being recruited by HP.