As rumors spread about her abrupt departure, Xbox's former COO Helen Chiang fires back, denying much of what has said about why the Microsoft veteran left the company.

Over the last few weeks, the unfolding mystery of Xbox's COO departing after just three months on the job has felt like a puzzle that may never be publicly solved. Thanks to a LinkedIn post from Helen Chiang breaking the silence, we at least may know why she was not let go, and it runs counter to suggestions that Xbox's first chief operating officer was fired for a policy violation.

On a post titled "Clarity is Kindness," Chiang takes aim at reporting that stated she had been fired from Xbox due to a policy violation. When the outlet Eurogamer reported such, speculation flowed wildly and freely from different corners of the internet, with threads on gaming discussion boards on Reddit and Resetera presuming that Chiang had been dismissed for leaking confidential information or harassment.

Her post outlines the different things she was "not dismissed for," all under the umbrella of no policy violation having occurred. She denies leaking confidential information, leaving to join a competitor, engaging in discrimination, bullying, harassment, insider trading, embezzlement, or other fraudulent activity.

Finally she says she did not leave because she was passed over for a bigger role, which is an odd accusation to levy at Chiang to begin with, who had only established the role under Xbox CEO Asha Sharma three months prior.

What Chiang does not explicitly outline is why she either left or was dismissed from the company, but she does imply in the post that she finds the reasons to be unfair.

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