Chevron Interview Questions & Reviews

What was your greatest weakness?

If you were prseneted with two projects, each of which required your immediate undivided attention, which would you address first? If one of the projects was for your boss and the other was for your boss' boss, would your answer change?

What would you do if you had just come home from a twelve day trip and were told you had another twelve day trip tomorrow?

Give us your 5 minute biography.

Do you have any experience conducting safety training? (This seems to be a big priority here)

How do convince the management to implement your idea?

Tell us about a time where you experienced failure and how you handled it.

Tell me about a time when yo worked on a team and the team implemented your ideas. How did you convince them?

Tell me about a time when you failed to deliver a task. How did you resolve it?

How have you used your personal network to solve a problem?

Can you show me on this huge overhead projector with the ergonomically-friendly but bizarrely shaped mouse that you've never encountered before how you could create a pivot table in Microsoft Excel 2003. Pay no attention to the breathing on the back of your neck. Also make no motions toward using the laptop trackpad or the three interviewers will scream, "You can use the mouse!" at you as if it never occured to you to use the mouse.

When you do, in fact, create the pivot table using the half-a-bowling ball shaped mouse, be prepared to discuss how using the trackpad on the laptop would have been an ergonomical distaster and using the the mouse that may have been bigger than the actual laptop itself was infinitely better. Also be prepared for grudging admiration on your pivot table.

 (I may be paraphrasing a bit)