When Teresa arrived in Seattle, Microsoft was still quite small.
Back then, she worked for Microsoft as a contractor, and when she became a full-time employee, Microsoft already had more than four thousand employees.
And it occupied a rather large industrial park in the northeast area of Seattle.
"People come here because they love this kind of work," Teresa once told reporters.
Indeed, this is how the "Seattle Times" described Microsoft at the time.
"The break rooms were filled with free soda, nearly every office had windows, and there were two computers on every desk.
During workdays, there often were lunchtime soccer matches, or the executives engaging in comical competitions by jumping into the nearby lake."
Money made everything wonderful, Teresa admitted that working at Microsoft was a joyful thing back then.
When she became a full-timer, Microsoft hadn't gone public yet.
