Chevron's loop looks completely different depending on where you apply. In the US the accounts that exist are almost all corporate-finance ones: a campus or referral phone screen heavy on behavioural questions with a light dusting of accounting, then a half-day of back-to-back interviews with several managers at a Chevron office. In Nigeria, where Chevron Nigeria Limited recruits in large public batches, the process is a long test funnel run by the third-party assessor Dragnet: an online aptitude test (verbal, numerical, abstract, no calculator), then a role-specific technical skills test, then a single panel interview with the hiring team, then background checks and medicals. Technical and operations candidates elsewhere report pre-employment aptitude/mechanical-comprehension testing before anyone speaks to them.
These 16 writeups cover petroleum engineering, facilities engineering, geoscience and other roles. 15 of them were posted under a forum handle, so we could not verify the authors’ identities.
unknown. 1 round. Shared by shawndrost on hn, 2008-04-06
1Technical interviewTechnicalDiscussion touched on petabyte-scale geological data analysis.Covered: Big data
Financial Analyst (Finance Development Program)
Not selected
New grad. 1 round. Shared by ValleyMonkey14 on wso, 2014-11-11
1On-campus interview (two interviewers)BehavioralAfter applying through the school careers site with just a CV, the candidate was picked for on-campus recruiting and met a former programme participant plus a director from the Houston office. Roughly ten get-to-know-you and behavioural questions were followed by seven or eight straightforward accounting and finance questions.Covered: Behavioral, Accounting basics, Corporate finance
Business and Commercial Rotational Program
Not selected
New grad. 2 rounds. Shared by zas3 on wso, 2018-10-23
1On-site HR screenPhone screenA recruiter invited the candidate to first rounds on site, which opened with a one-on-one conversation with an HR person.Covered: Behavioral, Career goals
2Group interview with programme leadsPanelA group interview with the people who oversee the rotational programme. It mixed standard behavioural prompts (pushing an idea past management resistance, handling a personality clash at work) with opinion questions on where Chevron could grow its business lines internationally and commercially, and what qualities the programme should look for.Covered: Behavioral, Conflict handling, Domain knowledge, Career goals
Financial Analyst (Corporate Finance)
Received an offer
New grad. 2 rounds. Shared by nicklucidi on wso, 2014-07-23
1Phone screenPhone screenEntered the process on an employee referral in the autumn of senior year. The call was mainly behavioural with a handful of technical questions mixed in.Covered: Behavioral, Corporate finance
2On-site with three finance managersPanelA roughly half-day visit to the San Ramon office meeting three different finance managers back to back. Questions were largely behavioural: leading a team, dealing with a disgruntled team member, why corporate finance at a multinational, and what personal values the candidate would bring.Covered: Behavioral, STAR stories, Conflict handling
Data Analyst (India)
Outcome not shared
Experienced. 1 round. Shared by u/FakeNewsPeddlerr on reddit, 2026-05-18
1Technical interview with tech leadTechnicalThe interviewer opened by confirming the candidate accepted four days in office and a second-shift schedule, then went straight into SQL: invent two small tables and write out the full result of a left and a right join. The rest wandered through an ambiguously worded ask about a 'duplicate query', a product-reasoning question about why some apps issue one OTP and others two, then data validation and SDLC definitions before ending abruptly.Covered: SQL, Shift availability, Data quality, SDLC
Technician
Outcome not shared
Experienced. 1 round. Shared by u/Rig_Bockets on reddit, 2025-09-04
1Pre-employment quizOnline assessmentAfter applying for a technician job the candidate was given a quiz that included mechanical-comprehension items, including a gear-and-motion diagram question with deliberately under-specified conditions that they felt they answered wrongly.Covered: Aptitude, Mechanical comprehension
1Dragnet aptitude testOnline assessmentInvited by email to a computer-based test run by Dragnet in the GSE format: verbal, abstract and numerical reasoning. The candidate found the numerical section by far the hardest, being dense with graphs, tables, comparisons and percentages, and sat with no calculator allowed. Results are not shown to candidates. Only those above the cut-off are contacted.Covered: Aptitude, Numerical reasoning, Verbal reasoning, Abstract reasoning
1Dragnet computer-based test at a regional centreOnline assessmentShortlisted candidates were summoned by SMS and email to a named test centre with a printed invitation and photo ID for a proctored computer-based test. In this candidate's sitting the centre ran roughly ninety minutes late, his name was missing from the vendor's database, the system reset and wiped earlier candidates' answers, and he left without taking the test.Covered: Aptitude, Logistics
Internship. 2 rounds. Shared by Samuel Shaibu on blog, 2022-02-24
1Online applicationTake-homeApplied online through Chevron's portal, uploading the required supporting documents and voluntarily adding a CV and cover letter that were not asked for.Covered: Resume deep-dive
2Psychometric / Dragnet testOnline assessmentShortlisted for the standard psychometric test used for Nigerian intern intake. The candidate prepared by asking seniors who had already sat Dragnet-style papers, then followed up with recruiters after the test.Covered: Aptitude, Psychometric test
1Technical skills testOnline assessmentFor the early-career engineering intake the technical skills test leaned heavily on secondary-school physics and chemistry with only a few role-specific items. No calculator was provided despite an earlier assurance, so the difficulty was mostly in recalling formulas.Covered: Domain knowledge, Physics, Chemistry
1Online skills testOnline assessmentAs an experienced hire this candidate skipped the aptitude test and went straight to the role skills test. The platform froze repeatedly and locked them out at the sitting's cut-off time after nine questions, so their paper went unsubmitted.Covered: Domain knowledge
1Aptitude testOnline assessmentThe candidate applied to three engineering roles and was invited to the aptitude stage for two of them, with the facilities engineering track going quiet afterwards.Covered: Aptitude
2Petroleum engineering skills testOnline assessmentA roughly fifteen-question online technical test preceded by a practice test earlier in the week. On the day the site froze before login and repeatedly during the sitting, leaving the candidate able to answer only one question.Covered: Domain knowledge
1Geoscience skills testOnline assessmentThe geophysics paper was long and mixed formats: written essay answers, fill-in-the-blank items and multiple-choice questions.Covered: Domain knowledge, Written answers
1In-person skills testOnline assessmentThe skills test for this intake was sat physically rather than remotely, and HR told candidates the remaining stages would be an interview followed by medicals.Covered: Domain knowledge
2Panel interview with finance leadershipPanelA single panel interview with members of the finance team and the CFO. The candidate reported no technical questions at all: the panel worked entirely through scenario-based prompts. They reached this stage but did not get the offer.Covered: Behavioral, STAR stories, Customer scenarios
1Panel interviewPanelInterviewed in late January after the skills test. The questions tracked the role and its job description closely and drew on the candidate's own experience, with panellists chaining follow-up questions off each answer. No decision ever came back. Peers in other roles received background-check emails within about a week of their interviews.Covered: Domain knowledge, Past projects, Behavioral
1Operator skills testOnline assessmentThe operator paper was built around scenario questions on field operations and on safety in field work, with no calculation items in this candidate's sitting.Covered: Safety procedures, Domain knowledge, Customer scenarios
What Chevron is hiring for now
153 open roles in our index. Advertised pay floors run $55k to $138k (median $105k, from 15 postings that state pay).
Chevron's loop looks completely different depending on where you apply. In the US the accounts that exist are almost all corporate-finance ones: a campus or referral phone screen heavy on behavioural questions with a light dusting of accounting, then a half-day of back-to-back interviews with several managers at a Chevron office. In Nigeria, where Chevron Nigeria Limited recruits in large public batches, the process is a long test funnel run by the third-party assessor Dragnet: an online aptitude test (verbal, numerical, abstract, no calculator), then a role-specific technical skills test, then a single panel interview with the hiring team, then background checks and medicals. Technical and operations candidates elsewhere report pre-employment aptitude/mechanical-comprehension testing before anyone speaks to them.
What topics does Chevron test in interviews?
Commonly reported topics include Big data, Behavioral, STAR stories, Aptitude, Domain knowledge, Past projects.
These guides summarize public, first-hand interview experiences shared by candidates. They describe the shape of each loop and the topics that came up, not a leaked question bank, and every experience links back to its original source. Processes change often. Treat this as directional prep, not a script.