I applied through university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at ExxonMobil
Interview
Went to our campus career fair and dropped off my resume. Got a call back scheduling an on campus interview. The interview was a pretty standard behavioral interview with an engineer from the company. Basically he read off the sheet about my experiences with teams/making tough decisions/etc. Pretty standard, but at the same time, that made it all the more difficult.
Got a call from them to schedule a second round about a month later. They flew me out to Louisiana for a couple days, the whole "wine and dine" experience. They do it really well! Had a host bring me around for the two days, really nice hotel suite, the works! Furthermore, the interview itself consisted of 5 back-to-back interviews, all with different employees along the food chain. Most questions were personal or about your resume. (With the second round, it's definitely more about getting a feel for who you are and if you'd be a good fit for the company). All in all, I received an offer via phone two weeks later and the offer letter the next day.
For that reason, your first interview is EASILY the most important... Exxon does a huge filtering at this stage and majority of the people who do the second round actually get offers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What do you think separates ExxonMobil from the other oil companies?
I applied through university. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at ExxonMobil (Bengaluru) in Aug 2025
Interview
Three stage process
Online Test - Aptitude and Mechanical core problems; (Standard difficulty while the Aptitude was time consuming)
Group Discussion - Topic given was - Can introverts be effective leaders
Interview - Technical and HR. RICCE framework. Being through with every point in the CV and understanding mechanical engineering principles behind all of them helps.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Forces acting on a hole and shaft, assembled in a press fit
I applied through university. I interviewed at ExxonMobil (Calicut, Kerala) in Aug 2025
Interview
Some Technical and some HR questions. Technical questions are not too deep. They also look for your communication and management skills. They ask about your past professional experience and know the details of it.
I applied through university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at ExxonMobil (Baton Rouge, LA) in Oct 2023
Interview
There were 3 other engineers on the teams call. At first they described the role and their experience. Then they pretty much line by line on your resume and asked questions about everything.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There is a large pressure tank that is holding crude oil, one of the preventative maintenance engineers says that in six months there will be a hole at the bottom of the tank. Each day this tank is out of commission, it costs the company 1 million dollars. You are 6 months into the job, what do you do?
