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Updated Apr 25, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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RAPID Project at Petronas
Posted Apr 25, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2012 in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) (took a day)
PETRONAS Structured Interview (SI)
The structured interview comprises of 4 different sections:
i) One on One Interview
ii) Case Study
iii) Role Play Session
iv) Competency Behavioral Interview
1. Ice-breaking Session
This is just a normal ice-breaking session to ensure you confortable with the session. Get ready with the following questions :
a) Family /education background
b) Brief summary of your working experience, if any.
c) Your strengths and weaknesses?
d) Your best achievement?
a) Introduce yourself (5-10 minutes) (Studies, abilities, qualities & etc)
b) What is your interest? (Provide a reasonable elaboration)
c) Your strengths and weaknesses?
d) Your best achievement? (Elaborate based on your past experience)
e) How do you pick yourself up after a bad experience/facing a failure?
f) (Elaborate based on your past experience)
g) How do you handle a conflict?
h) (Elaborate based on your past experience)
i) How do you find your leadership?
j) Have you encountered a situation where you are required to lead a group of subordinates? (Elaborate based on your past experience)
k) Have you encountered a situation in which your integrity being challenged? What did you do? (Elaborate based on your past experience)
l) What and how you can contribute/add value to PETRONAS?
m) What do you look in your career?
n) Why do you think you suit this position?
o) What are your strength and weaknesses?
p) Tell me about your experience especially after five years you studying in university?
q) five minutes, tell something about yourself but nothing to do with your job
Duration: +/- 10 minutes or so
2. Case Study
You will be given an article from POTENTIA as a case study. The objective of this session is to see how you think and what you know ! Don’t worry so much on the topic as most of it is a general topic/knowledge. If you read a lot, will help you better in the session.
What you need to do ? Don’t panic, read the article carefully line by line and try to understand the whole story and try to highlight some key elements for discussion later.
You are allowed to jot down your key points in a A4 paper given by the interview administrator. Your notes will later be collected by the interview administrator. You will be asked to discuss the case study from various point of views i.e. Key elements (why do you choose that as key elements?), wider implications, main problems, suggested solutions & the benefits.
Topics:
a) PEOPLE Strategy
b) Corporate Finance
c) Product Change
d) Tourism
e) Costly Mistakes
f) Home Schooling
g) Pollution
h) Market Share
i) ICT
j) Nanotechnology
k) Integrity
l) Asylum
m) Corporate Growth
n) Value Profile
o) Global Warming
p) Publicity and Privacy
q) sub contract
r) Company Merging
s) R&D
3. Competency Behavioral Interview
Behavioral interviewing is interviewing based on discovering how the interviewee acted in specific employment related situations. The logic is that how the interviewee behaved in the past will predict how he/she will behave in the future, whereby this interviewing technique believes that past performance does predict future performance.
Some of the questions that they might asked :
• How you handle conflicts
• How you manage a team
Duration: +/- 15 minutes or so
4. Role Play
You will be asked to do a role play together with the interviewer. There will be three separate cards which represent three different situations i.e. (Manager vs. Staff rep, Manager vs Teacher & etc). The interviewer (staff representative) will try to provoke you (manager) with various arguments. You will have to stand up for your principle and at the same time maintain the professionalism. The whole idea of this exercise is to examine your sense of empathy, integrity as well as professionalism.
In role play the interviewers will see how you progress with each card. The new card demand thougher role play than the previous one. Should you handle well he will pass you another card. It indicates good progress.
However sometimes the interviewers could not see clear indication how the candidates stand and he will pass on to a new card to see how the candidate handle it and compare it with his view on the previous card.
Be confident and have an open mind. View each situation considering all angles, ie the business that you in charged, environment ,the staff, people affected by the business and finally the nation and the world.
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Other Details
The interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview and a Background Check.
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Senior Reservoir Engineer at Petronas
Posted Oct 14, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) (took a day)
It was for an expat position. One to one Q&A section. A bunch of interviewers sitting on the other side of the table. 1 Manager, 1 senior Engineer, and a HR person were there. Surprisingly the interview questions are back to basics. It can be about your CV. The worst part is that they didn't reimburse for your travel.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview.
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Safety at Petronas
Posted Jun 23, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2009 (took 6 months)
The first session attended was only for me to get to know the company and my potential scope of work. it was the 1:1 chit chat session - which then i realized i was not interested with the position available and offered to me. Then, i was called for the second interview - consists of group/panel interview. Questions asked were mainly about my current work scope and how can i contribute to the company's growth. Then i was interviewed by phone by the HR person. Followed by requirement to answer some online IQ and personality tests. Final interview is by some cross function panel from the company before i being offered the position.
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Reason for Declining
the salary offered is below my current annual salary - like 40% below and according to the HR is based on their salary scale.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Personality Test.
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Completion Engineer at Petronas
Posted Feb 14, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2009 (took 2 days)
Very good process, very professional. online cv doesnt really work, so needs to try with friends.
Interview Questions
Reason for Declining
Salary, and work location
Other Details
I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Personality Test.
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Chemical Engineering at Petronas
Posted Jan 19, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2010 (took a day)
I was a student at PETRONAS University of Technology and I was offered to do the Structured Interview during my final semester. Before the interview I had to do an electronic ability test consisting of many questions to question my IQ/Intelligence. A few weeks after that it was announced that I was selected to do the interview with the HR people coming to the university.
There were 2 interviewers. They were really friendly. The interview consisted of 3 different parts: Background and personality check, Case Study (in my case it was a problem between the tourism industry and the environment) and Role Play (I had to act as a police officer handling the parents of a lost child).
And they also questioned my personality based on the assessment I have conducted before via online.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test, a Personality Test and a Background Check.
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Business at Petronas
Posted Oct 5, 2010
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2010 (took a day)
before i can make it to group/panel interview, i need to do an intelligence test. test on ur skill of comprehension and mathematics. after that i make it to the face to face interview. there are 3 stage, 1st stage the panel asking questions like strengths and weaknesses. 2nd stage, i have been given a case study to study on and give my opinion. 3rd stage is role play
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Personality Test.
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Engineering at Petronas
Posted Aug 7, 2010
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2008 (took a day)
The interview process is depending on the interviewer itself. Basically if you meet the kind-hearted interviewer they will just chattering with you without asking any technical questions. But basically you have to come prepared because there are sometimes the interviewer will ask about the engineering stuff like that.
Interview Questions
Other Details
I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Presentation, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Engineer at Petronas
Posted Apr 6, 2010
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2010 (took a day)
ability test - interview
Interview Questions
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The interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview and a Personality Test.
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Engineering at Petronas
Posted Apr 1, 2010
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2009 (took a day)
this interview consist of 3stages where at first stage,candidate were asked to give an opinion on given text whether to go against the ideas of to accept the ideas.Next is role play where candidates will be given a role to play against the panel and final stage will be the introductory part.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview.
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Procurement at Petronas
Posted Oct 27, 2009
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2009 (took a day)
Received email from Petronas HR that my CV was selected for one of the available vacancy, then they requested to send more details within 48 hrs. After a day they called and end email confirmation saying i'm selected for techincal assessment interview. It was 30-45 minutes timeframe and questions like your strengths, leadership quality, job history was asked. First questions was to tell about yourself in 5 minutes, anything but not related to work. Interview went well and i'm waiting for the results.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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