If there is no position in the company, even if you are a Petronas scholar, you will not be offered a position.

To all the senior who ever attended Petronas Structured Interview, may u all share what topics and situation of CASE STUDY and ROLE PLAY given to u???

I have gone through and passede telephone chi-chat session followed by online ability test...

And now i have confirmed with Petronas HR personnel that they will arrange an interview with me soon, and i want to get this job very much!!! ...

I applied for engineering executive E1 position. i only hav abt 2 years of experience but without any O&G experience.

so may all the senior out there pls share ur experience with me


a) CASE STUDY TOPICS

b) ROLE PLAY SITUATION


THX FOR UR INFO AND YOUR ASSISTANT WILL BE APPRECIATED

Thread i started to collect above mentioned info:

http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?act=ST&f...0#entry43506921

hey...mine also on this Wednesday at 10 am...see ya there...

Good luck to all of you. I remembered the 1st time I went to the interview (15 years ago), I guess a lot has changed.

For those scholars, as mentioned by another poster, if there is no position, they will not offer you a job and unless you are on a scholarship (not a loan), then they will release you without asking you to pay (my time lah), now I don't know. I find it strange that if you are on a scholarship (not a loan) that if they don't have a position for you, that they will ask you to pay it back.

waahh dah dpt duit from petronas, hantar jauh2 pun komplen banyak...bayangkan la yg local grad like me nak masuk petronas pun blom tentu boleh....

I think drg complain sbb drg tak boleh masuk petronas sbb x ada kekosongan and kene bayar balik..and 1.3k per month for a fresh grad is a killer...most fresh grad are making around 2.5k..tolak epf smua..dapat la dlm 2,2k..lepas tolak 1.3k = jadi rm900..yeah..

its not petronas yg hantar but they get into the foreign uni later they applied for the scholar..correct me if I'm wrong.
By the way, ada byk local grad yg masuk petronas esp yg from UTP. But i believe it is better if you apply as a professional with few years exp daripada as a fresh grad.


It is not fair if they want the student to pay it back if Petronas fail to give him job due to no vacancy in the company. It is not like they knew this is going to happen. Companies that provide out scholar ship (or any act of community service) received tax exemption up to some percentage. And for company that is making billions like petronas, even 1% is damn lot. So if the student is required to pay, this is like highway robbery. And the additional interest does not help the student either.

I'm against such scholarship->they pay u scholar then u must work for them. There are so many opportunities out there and its a shame that you know even before you grad where you are going to work. Let say, you are under Petronas scholar, then just few months before you grad, u see an opening in Microsoft or Shell that you know you might have a chance, but you cant work there due to contract with Petronas. It sucks esp when u are in a long term contract.

I'm believe that as a fresh grad, you must jump to other company atmost after 2 years on your first job. Normally after 2 years, your development slows down. Your learning curve starts going horizontal. Unless you are on project based and doing different things, but usually that is not the case.


I prefer JPA, YTAR, or any other non bonding scholarship..
I heard Shell gives scholarship WITHOUT bonding..It is not even compulsory for you to take you internship in Shell>>this community service.

This post has been edited by optyx_spider: Jul 19 2011, 05:05 AM

very simple. do ur homework in the first place b4 accepting it. u should have thought of it before going overseas. whether can u afford to break your bond in case u get a better offer or in case they ask u pay back.. if ur fren has studied in utp, he wuould only need to pay back 30% of 120k which is only 36k..

if you want to jump companies in every 2 years in the oil and gas company, i dun think u cn do so unless u r a super excellent employee...if u have a look at the papers, in the oil and gas industry , they want at least 5 yrs experience b4 u cn join an operating company...as for petronas , they are already offering 4k for starting pay and this does not include allowances. they even provide superb training. who would give u that outside....mayb shell yess

btw , i have a friend who is a shell scholar and he is bonded to shell...there is no such thing as saying i think gives scholarship WITHOUT bonding.... evn as a utp student , it is not compulsary for me to do internship with petronas...i have friends who went n did their internships in altera, schlumberger, intel, halliburton , baker hughes and many other companies

Good answer.

I was a PETRONAS scholar and I was bonded for 10 years after I graduated (I had the option to be released without paying anything to them though if they didn't find me a place in the company) BUT I do personally feel that I am grateful for PETRONAS who spent close to 400K in sending me overseas and I am a man of my word. I sign a contract that says that once I return, I must serve the company and so I did. A man is only as good as his word.

I left the company after 10 years to get other opportunities which I would not have gotten if not for the excellent training and job skills that I got from PETRONAS.

A scholarship/loan to send any of us to great tertiary eductaion system is not an entitlement. If you think that you really don't want to return and work in Malaysia (be it with a JPA/MARA/PETRONAS scholarship), then don't take the money/scholarship/loan. There are other people who is as good as you in their academic achievements who are willing to return and serve the country.

exactly my pt in the short one i posted.my take is petronas have been very good to those whom they have sponsored a lot of money both local and overseas.and i bet those guys wont be struggling so much like the rest of us in finding high paying jobs in ong or other fields since they already have that repo the rest of us need to scrape hard in experience to match.

Hi all,

I am new to this forum. I'm not sure do I really need to register or give an introduction in the new member list (other forum practice this)

I've attended Petronas S.I last 2 week and still waiting for the result. I'm an experienced candidate with 5 years BG in oilfield applying for exec. position in PMU.
After the S.I , admin told me i shall receive the result within weeks. She told me, normally that was the final interview. Is that normal for experienced applicants? Reading this thread discussion, I thought you have to go through all the process (haven't done any role play or IQ test)

barracuda_8119, was that your 1st or 2nd interview ?

I attended interview in July, next week will collect offer from them

how can i apply for working at ptronas??

Check this web

hi all,
can you tell me the proceedure and the questions of structural interview, because i am also 5.5 years experience reservoir(petroleum) engineer working in rteliance industries (E&P), mumbai india. I have structural interview on 23 aug 2011, please suggest me how to tackle this interview becuase i have already clear first technical interview which held on 24 june , in mumbai , india
thank you

My experience (fresh grad position) :

1) walk in. fill up forms. (At this point I was shocked that the minimum to enter is a 2:2. That's REALLY low.)
2) given a case study and given about 30 mins + to prepare - (I refused to prepare because I read it and it was so open ended and almost too easy so I just chilled out). Tried to talk to the other candidate who walked out from the interview room but our conversation ended after he found out my uni. (??)
3) got called to interview room - walk in, smile, chit chat. 1 on 2. Let's go!
4) case study discussion - just breeze through like a boss! too easy. My advice is stay confident and try to control the discussion. Direct the discussion to areas which u are familiar with and give succinct pseudo-intelligent replies to questions which you. Have alot to talk about too. (you can prepare for this earlier during the preparation time, but honestly it's way more fun to do it spontaneously under pressure, if that was pressure)
5) competency skills questions - another easily prepared section. (eg. tell us of a time where u had to use innovative skills to solve a problem?)

At this point I was told it was finished. But I was not done and I asked "what about role playing? I heard there was a role playing part earlier. I'm excited for that. " *eyes gleaming because I was INDEED having so much fun in the interview I wanted to do the role playing too*

But alas the reply I got was "That won't be necessary. Only if we cant get info that we want from you in the earlier parts then we'll do the role play."

So I didnt get to do this but basically,
6) role playing (if you are asked to do this part means you didnt do well in the earlier parts and because PETRONAS gives ppl so many chances that you get a another chance - the role play chance)


7) say bye. smile. walk out of the London hotel. And knew pretty much for sure an offer is coming.
8) receive offer letter in writing 2 weeks later
9) contemplate whether to accept/reject the offer. (THIS IS THE HARDEST PART, I FEEL. Mostly because I guess I did not apply but was just called up for interview in the first place and the fact that I am not bonded to them)


So there, I didnt get a technical interview which is why I felt this interview was WAY too easy compared to BP. Maybe it's just formalities for the scholars/UTP students, I don't know. But yeah, have fun.


Unrelated link but it's something I was reading while composing this reply. A good take on our local education system in malaysia where critical thinking is so discouraged. My friends in UM are increasingly annoyed with how everyone is just suppose to shut up and accept and copy.
http://rickardoberg.wordpress.com/2012/02/...ry/#comment-113

wrong..dont have any crony shit but still get in .. but if u have any then

is petronas only accepting engineering accounting, law, HR, students for interview?

I wonder can a chemistry or biotech students accepting into the interview?
do they restrict and particular about what fields u r from?

I got a double degree ( Chemistry and biology)friend who got petronas also. i would say no harm try ur luck.

May I know which field of job he / she is applying? did he/she got the offer?