I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Occidental Petroleum (La Porte, TX) in Jul 2021
Interview
The Interview Process was a great experience. It was my first big interview for a major chemical company. It was a 2 interview process with a 5 panel employees for Oxy on both interviews! They ask all about my previous experience and they tested me of what all I know about the process and what it does! If you do not know the process it will be a very hard Interview!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe the distillation process and equipment used in it.
What is a time where you had to deal with a difficult time.
Name a time where you were unsafe. That's a trap never say you were unsafe.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Occidental Petroleum (Notrees, TX) in Apr 2024
Interview
They’ll ask some operational questions, they’ll ask some hr questions, they will have 2 panel interviews. They will ask how to lock out a pump and describe how you would do it.
I applied online. I interviewed at Occidental Petroleum (Pedricktown, NJ) in Apr 2017
Interview
you must take a written test first (not rocket science, then you may get called for an interview,
I had one of their HR guys from Houston, Plant Manager, Lead operator and Operations manager at the interview. Seemed like square guys
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Have you ever been asked to do something in a certain way, when you had a better way to do it
What would you do if you had an issue with a co worker