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Anadarko Petroleum Interview Questions
Updated Feb 3, 2020
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Interviews at Anadarko Petroleum
Experience
Positive82%
Negative9%
Neutral10%
Getting an Interview
Campus Recruiting58%
Applied online16%
Employee Referral10%
Difficulty
2.8
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Interviews for Top Jobs at Anadarko Petroleum
- Intern (12)
- Geoscience (9)
- ITS Intern III (7)
- Geologist (5)
- Engineer (4)
- Rotational Accountant (4)
- Petroleum Engineering (4)
- Data Scientist (3)
- Engineering Intern IV (3)
- ITS Analyst (2)
- Accounting (2)
- Engineering Intern III (2)
- Land Analyst (2)
- Administrative Assistant (2)
- Intern - Hourly (2)
- IT Audit (2)
- Accounting Intern (2)
- Petrophysicist (1)
- Internship (1)
- Geology (1)
- Right of Way Agent (1)
- Accountant II (1)
- Drilling Engineer (1)
- Staff Field Analyst (1)
- ITS (1)
- EHS Summer Intern (1)
- Senior Land Specialist (1)
- Executive Assistant/Senior Staff SCM Specialist (1)
- Flow Assurance Engineer (1)
- Senior Landman (1)
Found 123 candidate interviews
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Anonymous Employee in United States
Accepted Offer
Positive Experience
Average Interview
Application
InterviewI applied through college or university. I interviewed at Anadarko Petroleum (United States)
Personable experience where the interviewers really took the time to connect and learn about you on both a professional and personal level. Great experience with very few “HR” questions
Interview Questions
- How many tennis balls fit in a limo?

Anonymous Employee in Houston, TX
Accepted Offer
Positive Experience
Average Interview
Application
InterviewI applied through an employee referral The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Anadarko Petroleum (Houston, TX)
The team I interviewed with chose a group interview with members of various departments to ensure as a candidate I was the right fit for the organization professionally and also fit the company’s culture.
Interview Questions
- Questions from previous work experience, employer described work scenarios to better understand the position, asked about I handled difficult conversations, etc.
Join the Anadarko Petroleum team

Anonymous Employee in Houston, TX
Accepted Offer
Positive Experience
Average Interview
Application
InterviewI applied through an employee referral The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Anadarko Petroleum (Houston, TX) in Jan 2019
Good interview process. Took about 4 months and then moved really fast. Not a whole lot of info in-between the first interview and the final interview due to a restructuring.
Interview Questions
- Are you looking for a long term position or are you looking to gain experience and then leave the company?

Anonymous Interview Candidate in The Woodlands, TX
No Offer
Positive Experience
Difficult Interview
Application
InterviewI applied online. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Anadarko Petroleum (The Woodlands, TX) in Jan 2019
I applied online on company website and got a call from recruiter to set up onsite interview. The onsite interview was brief. It was a panel interview for an hour. Followed by lunch at nearby restaurant. The interviewers very kind and respectful.
Interview Questions
- Mainly behavioral questions and some experience questions.

Anonymous Interview Candidate in Houston, TX
No Offer
Positive Experience
Easy Interview
Application
InterviewI applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Anadarko Petroleum (Houston, TX)
Applied online on my uni’s website and met the recruiter at the career fair. Was invited to the pre-interview dinner and had an interview the next day. There were two interviewers present and they asked pretty standard interview questions - pre-made that were behavioral. Afterwards, if you make it through you’ll be invited to an office visit.
Interview Questions
- What’s your greatest strength/weakness?

Anonymous Employee in Houston, TX
Accepted Offer
Neutral Experience
Average Interview
Application
InterviewI applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Anadarko Petroleum (Houston, TX) in Nov 2018
Interviewed On Campus after a career fair. Met with 4 interviewers at once, all of whom asked questions. They basically just went down my resume and asked about every experience I had, in addition to some basic questions about team work and conflict. The entire thing lasted about an hour.
Interview Questions
- Describe this experience on your resume.

Anonymous Employee in United States
Accepted Offer
Positive Experience
Average Interview
Application
InterviewI interviewed at Anadarko Petroleum (United States)
I applied on school handshake and got an interview set up. There were 3 interviewers, one of them would write things down and the others would ask. There were quite many behavioral questions. The people were friendly. It was a 30 minute interview. I actually don’t know the outcome yet when I’m submitting it but there are no option for that on Glassdoor so I just click yes and I accepted:))
Interview Questions
- Why Anadarko?
- Some of your challenges and how did you overcome?
- What would you do if in a project your roll were not clearly defined?

Anonymous Interview Candidate in United States
No Offer
Positive Experience
Average Interview
Application
InterviewI applied through college or university. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Anadarko Petroleum (United States) in Oct 2018
Two interviewers asked behavioral questions with a few technical questions. It was nice and relaxing. What surprised me was I was told that there would be mainly behavioral questions. So I didnt expect the technical ones..
Interview Questions
- Have you used neural network before?

Anonymous Interview Candidate in Houston, TX
No Offer
Positive Experience
Average Interview
Application
InterviewI applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Anadarko Petroleum (Houston, TX) in Sep 2018
On campus, asked several behavioral questions and questions about previous projects and coding experiences. Had one technical question afterwards. They also asked about classes I took and what would I do in certain scenarios. Overall very pleasant, have not heard back.
Interview Questions
- Give an algorithm to find if two strings are anagrams.

Anonymous Interview Candidate in Houston, TX
No Offer
Positive Experience
Average Interview
Application
InterviewI applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Anadarko Petroleum (Houston, TX) in Sep 2018
They invite you to a candidates dinner and then have one face to face interview. Everything is behavioral. The interviewers were really nice. It ended up being just a conversation.
Interview Questions
- What do you value the most?