I applied online. I interviewed at Charles Schwab (Austin, TX) in Mar 2021
Interview
Worst interview process. The HR randomly sent a meeting invite without asking for time slots. He then discussed about interview process.
He then didn't ask me for any time slots, just randomly finalized interview at a given date and time.
I joined the WebEx call and the interviewer did not join.
Then I emailed HR and he randomly selected some other day and time for interview.
The interviewer joined the call this time and looked uninterested. He was not listening and was asking random questions.
Later the HR emailed me and said they can only consider me for Software Dev III role.
I was surprised at such unprofessional behavior.
Interviewing at Charles Schwab is simply a waste of time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Very simple coding questions requiring Array and Strings.
But the interviewers are usually uninterested and don't listen to your solution.
I applied online. I interviewed at Charles Schwab (Southlake, TX) in Sept 2025
Interview
Had a virtual interview with a manager. Normal enough. At the end he tells me that he is going to schedule an in person interview. He tells me this interview will cover technical troubleshooting, along with some design and architecture with a white board.
I get to the site, someone picks me up in the lobby and takes me to a conference room. He then starts a Teams meeting where the other interviewers then join the Teams meeting.
So they had me come in person to one of their sites so that all of the people interviewing me could do so virtually.
Throughout the entire interview only one of the interviewers turned on their camera, which was for the (roughly) 5 minutes he asked me questions. Other than that the people from Charles Schwab were faceless blocks on a Teams meeting.
Of the hour and a half interview there was maybe 10 minutes of conversation around troubleshooting or design. The rest of the interview was 95% random java questions, most of which seemed like they were things the interviewers had done or used sometime within the last 24 hours or questions that were taken from an Oracle Java certification exam.
The person who asked the most questions could barely be understood. Even the other Charles Schwab person that came to get me from reception couldn't understand what he was asking. Cheap microphone + Teams = having to ask someone to repeat themselves at least three times, which makes you look like a jerk.
We did actually need the whiteboard, they wanted to me write some code on it for an entry level software position, because who doesn't write their best code on a whiteboard.
The behavior of the people from Charles Schwab seemed unprofessional and felt unprepared. To have someone come for an in person interview only to have the interview be on Teams was rude.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What steps would you take to scale a product from 700 users to 1,000,000?
Virtual interview process with 3 board members in the team and took almost 1 hour to interview me to get the technical questions answered.
Tell me about yourself and .net core with authenication and authorization.
2 rounds in total. Both were technical. First was more like an easy one. mostly my previous work experience discussion, and it lasted 45 minutes. The second round went on for 2 hrs