That interpretation seems to contradict Microsoft's general attitude towards her: > I’d worked for Microsoft for nine years by then. My career was in high gear

That interpretation seems to contradict Microsoft's general attitude towards her: > I’d worked for Microsoft for nine years by then. My career was in high gear. A year earlier I’d been honored with the Market Maker award as the marketer who “added the most to the (1600+-person) Consumer Division’s bottom line.”