Description As long as Japanese drive Toyotas, there will be a role for Idemitsu Kosan. The company is the #2 oil refiner in Japan (behind Nippon Oil). At its four refineries in Japan (processing 640,000 barrels per day) Idemitsu Kosan produces petroleum products, such as gasoline and other fuels, kerosene, and lubricants. It markets its fuel products through a network of 4,600 service stations. Idemitsu Kosan sells heavy oil and jet fuels to industries and kerosene and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to the residential sector. The company also has interests in oil exploration and production, as well as coal and uranium. Idemitsu Kosan unified its ethylene production with Mitsui Chemicals in 2010 to promote efficiency.
Idemitsu Kosan has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 39 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Idemitsu Kosan employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).
Overall, 59% of employees would recommend working at Idemitsu Kosan to a friend. This is based on 39 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
50% of job seekers rate their interview experience at Idemitsu Kosan as positive. Candidates give an average difficulty score of 2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) for their job interview at Idemitsu Kosan.