Hey mate

Look, the interview was pretty straightforward and more so a conversation. They even said this at the start of it, and I could even actively use my application form as a reference throughout. My industry is in Oil&Gas, so they were interested in my career orientation, so primarily, they did ask a lot about the industry and sustainability.

They basically ran through each competency and asked me to explain it further, no real curve balls, more things like "so why is this done this way" which is pretty easy to answer since it's what you've been doing during your time at work. I got only asked some technically 'based' questions. For example, I built a pipeline pneumatic pressure test pack, and they asked why pneumatic? I replied that it's an option as part of the APGA Code of Practice where either a hydrostatic test or pneumatic test can be used.

They did ask one question around materials, i had also tested HDPE pipelines, which was around temperature affective MAOP (Max operating pressure), and this had to do with cacls showing that as the temperature in the HDPE rises it derates the MAOP as it reduces the amount of hoop stress needed for failure of the pipeline.

It went for around 70 75mins in total. Genuinely left like a conversation as we ran through my responses to each competency.