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Team Lead at Shell Oil US

Accepted Offer – Reviewed Apr 20, 2013

Interview Details – Two stage panel interview - highly technical and behavioral

Interview Question – Presentation on a technical topic   Answer Question

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Geophysicist at Shell Oil US

No Offer – Interviewed in Houston, TX Aug 2012 – Reviewed Apr 20, 2013

Interview Details – Submitted my application to the school career website and also the Shell website. Got a phone call one day afternoon and was notified that a face to face interview will take place soon. During the interview was asked some behavior questions like what challenge I faced when teaming up with someone. Didn't get any feedback until two months later when I got email saying that position was in the middle of being matched.

Interview Question – Any difficulty to face a challenge?   Answer Question

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Health and Safety Engineer At Shell Oil US at Shell Oil US

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Sep 2012 – Reviewed Apr 16, 2013

Interview Details – September-Shell attended my school's career fair. I was told to apply online (as everyone says) but within 24 hours of submitting my information, I was contacted for an interview.

My interview was fairly structured according to typical Shell manner. It was mostly behavioral. I felt confident after my interview, but didnt hear back until February for a Shell Recruitment Day.

The recruitment day was very structured, but they provided candidates with ample materials and time to prepare. I felt they were supportive and wanted candidates to succeed: the SRD could have a 100% passing rate and they specifically noted we were not competing against one another.

Interview Question – The case study at the SRD was difficult: in that I felt there was always more prep I could do/more I could say   Answer Question

Negotiation Details – I didnt negotiate. I was very happy with the offer and had heard it was not necessarily the norm at Shell to do so.

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Intern at Shell Oil US

No Offer – Interviewed in Oct 2012 – Reviewed Apr 7, 2013

Interview Details – Applied through the campus career fair and got the interview email shortly. One day before the interview, there is a information session on campus where several interviewer introduce the history and the structure of the company. During the interview. most questions are typical behavior ones about the leadership, teenworks, and so on.

Interview Question – What is the most challenging situation do you have outside your adademic life?   Answer Question

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Land Intern at Shell Oil US

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Norman, OK Oct 2012 – Reviewed Apr 2, 2013

Interview Details – Long drawn out and detailed interview that delt mostly with how you would handle a certain set of problems if you where the CEO of Shell. Very in depth and detail oriented.

Interview Question – only one real question with subquestions that build off the main question like a tree.   Answer Question

Negotiation Details – over the phone on speaker with a group of people in charge of intern pay and salery

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Financial Analyst at Shell Oil US

No Offer – Interviewed in Houston, TX Oct 2012 – Reviewed Mar 25, 2013

Interview Details – Heavy interest in whether or not you have a broad range dealing with people from different backgrounds. Makes sense because of how diverse and international the company was. I was not a fan of their behavorial based interview. I think overall I did not click or mesh with the company.

Interview Question – behavorial based   Answer Question

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Graduate Internship at Shell Oil US

No Offer – Reviewed Mar 18, 2013

Interview Details – I have just finished the online application. It contains two parts. The first part is basically about self evaluation. The second part includes a none-timed decision making section and a timed numerical calculation section. Now I am waiting for further news.

Interview Question – I have been good at maths and numbers. But the time provided is really limited. You have to finish reading and calculation within one minute for each problem. I guess what they want you to do is not real calculation but reasonable guess based on the given numbers. Time is limited and makes me feel stressful.   View Answer

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Process Engineer at Shell Oil US

Accepted Offer – Reviewed Mar 21, 2013

Interview Details – Very long day, heard they have made it longer with technical interview followed by case study and group interaction exersice

Interview Question – Case study is tight on time with presentation of your conclusions to two interviewers   Answer Question

Negotiation Details – No negotiations. You either want to work for Shell or don't. Very fair offer.

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Health and Safety Engineer at Shell Oil US

No Offer – Interviewed in Houston, TX Mar 2013 – Reviewed Mar 10, 2013

Interview Details – I met the recruiters at a career fair at my university and they encouraged me to apply through their online process. There was a pretty extensive online assessment that included a quantitative section that is timed (about 1 min/question) and covered a lot of percentage/fraction math. This lead to a phone interview about a month later. My interviewer said it was his first time using the "new process" and mentioned they have completely reworked their interview process as of February 2013. The phone interview was a little over an hour with timed sections of behavioral questions following the outline of the "what we look for" section on their website. After the structured questions, the interviewer opened it up so that I could ask any questions of him and was very candid about the atmosphere at Shell. From that he said he would grade my answers and they would also be graded by a second Shell employee to either corroborate or argue his suggestion for either passing me through to the next round or not. An answer is to be received 14 days from the phone interview.

Interview Question – Tell me about a time when you disagreed with someone and had to overcome the difference of opinion

Pretty standard behavioral questions
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Upstream Internship at Shell Oil US

No Offer – Interviewed in Houston, TX Sep 2012 – Reviewed Feb 22, 2013

Interview Details – The interview was at the campus career center. The HR person interviewing me did not know anything about my background, including the degree I was currently pursuing. The interview was completely personality based and you were expected to give examples for all your answers.

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