This was a fairly traiditional interview process, nothing exceptional. The initial screening was performed by a Schwab recruiter. A series of phone interviews lasting 30-60 minutes was scheduled. Questions basically followed my resume, with one or two fairly simple technical questions. An onsite interview followed which was pretty much an all day affair, with individual interviewers throughout the day. Nothing more technical than a couple trips to the whiteboard writing pseudo-code. Everyone was otherwise very professional and candid about working at Schwab.

There was 1 initial call, 1 tech screen call, and 1 on-site interview where I met with both the development team and management. The initial calls were about an hour each, and the on-site was a total of roughly 3 hours. During the entire process, I was both asked whether I understood a variety of software development topics as well as to give a small example of each where applicable.