I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Charles Schwab (San Francisco, CA) in Apr 2013
Interview
First there is phone screening with human resource recruiter, asking generic questions about my job experience and skill sets to make sure it fits the job description. Then there is the phone interview with the hiring manager which goes deeper into the resume items and there were questions on items that were of special interest to him. Finally, there were in-person interviews with 6 people (including hiring manager).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A technical question was asked about the SQL needed to address a specific problem statement and was expected to give the exact syntax for the 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
