Junior college girl conquer Microoft
a junior college graduate from an ordinary private college i now on the microoft taff roll. ninety per cent of microoft employee hold a doctorate or mater degree. what i the ecret of her ucce? eatday.com interviewed her on july 27 at the microoft office in beijing.
li wenyi at the office.
li wenyi feel lucky to have won the chance to intern at microoft after paing through a profeional eam, a tranlation tet, a telephone interview and collective training and interview at the beijing microoft headquarter.
li wa involved in the oftware department of her college, the nanyang intitute of technology, and ha won a number of award for organizing college activitie. he entered the microoft helpdek technique-upport training coure in june , along with other 49 tudent, many of who were ophomore or junior from pretigiou univeritie.
li learned a lot in the training eion and earned the top core in a peech contet in her group, which won her a two-month internhip, along with 30 other.
li tarted the internhip by labeling cable. he told the webite there wa a lot of preure that gave her motivation and a deire to learn and grow.
he wrote in her diary "in my opinion, microoft i more like a big family rather than an enterprie, and i am a child in that family. i wa an infant when i firt tarted, knowing nothing about the work, and microoft wa like my father. i wa alway afraid of aying or doing the wrong thing. but now i feel at home. i am growing and making ene of the work."WWw.hAOZuowEn.com
i week later, li wa permitted to provide technical upport in interior department.
li wa taken on the microoft payroll in june and to her urprie he received a much higher alary than the 1,500 yuan he had been paid during the internhip.
hu jungao, li manager, told the webite there are 40,000 tudent majoring in oftware tudie in china, and 30,000 of them are taking microoft curricula and only three of them will be hired by the world oftware giant thi year.
according to hu, many of li competitor are tudent from the country top univeritie uch a tinghua and zhejiang. li think highly of microoft hiring policie that dont rely olely on diploma and profeional kill.
"we only have i-month contract. an employee will have to leave after that if he or he doent meet the company tandard," li aid. he aid he i determined to work even harder.
at 7 oclock on july 27, after mot of her colleague had left, li wa till in the office, making a ummary of the day work and drawing plan for the net day.
"the company provide a fairly eay and free work environment, but everybody work hard," li aid. "they have apartment and car and everything. what doe a man work for if he doent need more money?" maybe the anwer lie in microoft corporate culture.
"my life at microoft ha jut begun. there i a long way to go," he aid.