A junior college graduate from an ordinary private college is now on the Microsoft staff roll. Ninety per cent of Microsoft employees hold a doctorate or master's degree. What is the secret of her success? Eastday.com interviewed her on July 27 at the Microsoft office in Beijing.

Li Wenyi at the office. [Eastday.com]

Li Wenyi feels lucky to have won the chance to intern at Microsoft after passing through a professional exam, a translation test, a telephone interview and collective training and interviews at the Beijing Microsoft headquarters.

Li was involved in the software department of her college, the Nanyang Institute of Technology, and has won a number of awards for organizing college activities. She entered the Microsoft HelpDesk technique-support training course in June 2005, along with other 49 students, many of who were sophomores or juniors from prestigious universities.

Li learned a lot in the training sessions and earned the top score in a speech contest in her group, which won her a two-month internship, along with 30 others.

Li started the internship by labeling cables. She told the website there was a lot of pressure that gave her motivation and a desire to learn and grow.

She wrote in her diary "In my opinion, Microsoft is more like a big family rather than an enterprise, and I am a child in that family. I was an infant when I first started, knowing nothing about the work, and Microsoft was like my father. I was always afraid of saying or doing the wrong thing. But now I feel at home. I am growing and making sense of the work."