Hey thanks for sharing your interview experience. Are you an experienced worker? i'm a fresh graduate majoring in non technical major. I will be attending their SI this Thursday, the HR personnel informed me that I was shortlisted for SI, not like yours; the chit chat session. I wonder if the chit chat session is included in my SI tomorrow.. perhaps i should figure out how tall is KLCC :-D

Hey carolee1209, I attended the SI today and I asked is there any other stage after this and she said no; this is the last one before I will be informed whether I'm recommended or not. They said I can give them a call after a week to know the status of the interview. Overall it was okay, I think for me it was more like a discussion. Since a lot of people have been sharing their experience, I might as well share mine .

My interview was scheduled at 10am but I've to wait for the person before me to finish his session. 2 hours after that I was called. My assessors were very friendly. Me myself, I'm pretty talkative so I managed to leave my stress and nerves outside the door. Oh forgot to mention that the case study I was given was about customer dissatisfaction. There's only like 5 paragraph if I'm not mistaken. I had an hour to prepare for my ideas but lucky me while I was on board yesterday I read my school (LOL school? in the US they called college/university= school) book about how to manage a business, so it really helped a lot. I wrote on a piece of paper about my ideas, pros, cons, long and short terms solutions, examples. I came out with several examples to strengthen my opinion but ended up didn't use any of them. Reading a lot will help you this. But I believe it was more about how you think. How do you come out with a solution? Are you systematic? Be confident and firm on your decision/proposal. They challenged me with lots of arguments. I'm surprised at myself, I didn't panic (I'm a very gelabah person actually HAHAH). Before the case study discusion, there's a ice breaking about background, schools, majors, strength, weaknesses etc. Basic stuffs that you don't need to prepare much.

Then onto CBI, they asked me about 2 things. 1) Any challenge you have faced before and how you deal with it. They gave me time to think for a while. I was prepared for this question actually (gotten by reading the whole tread and googling about petronas interview questions). They asked me to explain every detail of the story. Then 2) Learning on fly. Describe something that you've to pick up fast; something that is really new for you and you need to master it in a short time. It was more like a story telling imho hehe.

The last one is role play. I was given two cards. I heard they just want to do one card (I think they're hungry because we all haven't had our lunch yet so they wanna finish soon). But in the end I had to do two cards. Some people say the more cards you get the better you're doing but some say the opposite. I think how many cards are given doesn't give any indication of how your performance is. It's all depends on the interviewers, only the know (of course). I was a manager, then the directors gave us a project that we need to complete it within 3 days. Two of my workers didn't want to stay back because they had other important commitments. I think I didn't do quite well..so they gave me the second card. This time I got into the game and acted well (ahah or so I think). Basically, this part you're in charged, you can create any situation you wish for based on what they said. They argued with me, challenged me, but I just stayed calm. Empathy is the key here. As a manager I told them that it is important for me to reach out to my staffs. Since my staffs are burden with lots of works in 3 days, I told the interviewers that it is important for me to always concern about their (staff) condition. I would call all of them for a meeting to update on the progress and at the same time listen to their problems. Let them release their stress..share the problem among ourselves and be positive. So when everyone goes out of the meeting room, there will be less pressure. Hence, increase the productivity.

I asked them a question; what motivates them to go to work everyday? Omagerd I'm happy that I ask them because they give me insight of how a working world is. Very interesting. One of the interviewer gave me a lot of advises. They talked about their work for almost 15minutes. hahah so I just listened and nodded.

Overall, alhamdulillah I think I did okay. I hope I'll get a good news but I'm very satisfied with my own performance, and thats all matters to me. Perhaps I should have read and remember more of Petronas's story to show them that I'm very interested in their company. I didn't give any example from Petronas when I'm defending my ideas. So guys, please read about Petronas more than I did and tell them about what you know. Everyone I know who had done an interview will tell me to just be myself. Yes that's absolutely true. Just be yourself and everything will flow naturally.Hmm what else..oh yea, the assessors are flexible in language. They spoke rojak to me haha..
So good luck to anyone if you happen to have an upcoming interview.

hey, when did you attend your SI?

hey bro, nope.. I'm still waiting for hr to call me. I just passed my SI, which was a week after I took it. I've no idea of my placement and position. I wonder where Pet is going to send me..

hey congrats! where are you going to work? Sabah? (since you mentioned SBO) When did you have your SI? I had mine in late august.. currently waiting for their call. I wonder when..

Hey thanks.. I already passed SI, I knew it after a week I took it. Now I'm waiting for the offer letter too. Happy waiting!

I called them every two weeks and their answer is please wait for us to call you. I dont know if I should call again in two weeks time. Should I? The waiting period is so long

same here, I've been waiting since September 2012 for my placement but every time I called them they said they'll call me back when there's any news. I wonder how much longer I would have to wait.

Hey congrats! Are you from engineering background?

I agree with you, they have a very weird hiring process. Anyway I asked HR about your concern and they said Petronas will definitely hire us but we have to wait lah. My friend who is a Pet scholar thought Pet doesnt need him after 6months of waiting but on the 7th month he got a call to start working. So there's a slight hope there. The waiting is really painful so it is best to look for other job and keep on waiting and pray for the best!

Hey, I just want to compliment your professional and non-emotional response. All the best.

Hi all. Just want to share my story. I passed my SI in September 2013, a week after I had it. Then I've been calling HR for every to weeks and until at one point (maybe late November) I stopped calling them. Then in late January I called up again to follow up. The HR was well aware that I've been waiting since September. Then the next day they emailed me saying that they could not find a position for me and wish me good luck for my future. I was a bit confused actually. Does that mean I didn't get any job and got rejected? Or does it mean that particular HR division does not have any suitable position for me? Then they called me confirming that what they meant by it, is the latter. Phew so there's still chance for me. But honestly speaking, I don't put any hope anymore. If there's rezeki then adalah kan. So they put my name under another HR. What got me upset is that whenever I called them, they never tell me any updates and just told me to wait for their call.
I was happened to have a friend whose her husband works in HR at Petronas as well. He told me that he can check the status of my placement and the result is currently there are 2 Operating Units that are considering me. Lucky me again, happened to be that my dad's friend is a senior manager at Petronas then he helped to check my status. And I got more accurate result; PETCO is currently considering me and will finalize it by end of this week (if lucky), should they not be able to put me in, they will push my CV to another OPU.

So here I am now, still waiting for them to call me if they want to take me in. Thank God I'm currently working so it does not really matter how long it would take. But I hope it won't take too long. Moral of the story is, KEEP ON CALLING THEM if you're in the same situation like me. I should have called them continuously till they're annoyed and do something about it.

Yeah maybe you're right. I just hope PETCO will accept me. Your friend is very lucky then. I have a friend who had the same case, only faster. The whole process of him from passing SI to getting offer letter only takes few weeks. Different people different case, depends on rezeki too

hey, I got it too! hr called me yesterday. when is your session and what is your position?

I hope you'll become the big boss in Petronas one day!

IDK when is mine! haha but the other day when hr called he said his boss would like to meet me this week so I said Friday is good. Since I'm in Borneo island, I need to get my flight ticket first but yesterday I called the hr to confirm but there's no answer! I assumed the hr personnel is on leave (just to be positive lols). I called every half an hour. I don't want to waste my money buying the flight ticket and only to know that the boss might not be available on Friday. So yeah today I'll try to call again.
Btw mine is for risk management (I'm actuarial sc major), they didn't really specify as what.

Good luck on your session!!

Hi azraeil,

I would like to ask for your view on petronas downstream and upstream, any insights on the work nature/exposure/anything ? Major difference?

This is because I had chit chat sessiosn with PEX Carigali and Downstream Marketing which both are under strategic planning department. They'd like to offer me analyst position if I got selected. People say upsteam lagi 'best' but Idk what they really meant by 'best'. FYI I have business background.

Hey mangoman, thanks for your responds!

During my chitchat session with upstream, the manager mentioned that I have the opportunity to go offshore even though I don't have any technical background, the reason being is for exposure. And they also involve in handling events/forum/talks apart of doing normal office jobs. Then I asked the downstream manager if they have such things, and the answer is no.

I feel like the upstream has more to offer to me.

Based on your experience, can a person receive 2 job offers from two different department at the same time?
I'd love to join upstream but they still haven't confirmed me anything...

I've waited for 8 months after SI and finally received the offer but I haven't decided whether I would accept it or not... good luck ya

I stopped waiting for awhile and hunt somewhere else. Better have back up.

I applied for non-technical position. First they put me as a candidate for Business Development Exec. But the offer I got is for marketing exec