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Glassdoor, where employees post salaries, compliments and gripes about their bosses, produced its list having collated and culled reviews posted over the past year by interns who ranked their experiences on a five-point scale from "very dissatisfied" to "very satisfied".
Getting into San Ramon, California-headquartered Chevron, however, is no walk in the park.
While Chevron's internship program coordinator Caroline Cunningham would not reveal the pay level, Glassdoor said Chevron interns make a monthly salary of between $US4200 in the information technology department to $US6100 in petroleum engineering.
Chevron, which finished hiring its summer interns by the end of October, will hire between 400 and 500 interns this year, mostly in positions it calls "petrotech," meaning that interns use a combination of petroleum engineering and technological skills.
"Unusual at a time when at least some part of the hiring for most companies happens online, Cunningham says that Chevron runs its intern hiring almost entirely face-to-face," Forbes said.
Chevron recruits at schools with strong petrochemical engineering programs like Texas A&M, University of Texas at Austin and Louisiana State University.
The major is "on the lookout for candidates who express a passion for working at the super-major who have gone to a campus information session, researched the company through their school's career services office and who can say with certainty that they want to work at Chevron more than anywhere else".
"We only want students who really want Chevron," Cunningham told Forbes.
While Chevron also diversifies its gene pool by hiring at three conferences including the National Society for Black Engineers, Cunningham said that ideally interns will return for several summers and wind up with job offers.
About 75% of petrotech interns get offered full-time jobs, while in other parts of Chevron like finance and public affairs, between 40% and 50% receive full-time offers.
"The internship program is the bread and butter of our full-time hiring strategy," she said.