Working at Charles Schwab in San Francisco, CA: 35 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in San Francisco, CA Area

"Great investment firm for customers, but rapidly becoming a worse place to work now that their headquarters are in Texas and they merged with "mid-west values" TD Ameritrade. Sadly, the diversity and equality in the workforce that Schwab was known for is now a thing of the past."

"A very cheap and underpaying company."

"I worked for Schwab as a frontend software engineer. They care about the way they work and look to improve, but engineers get moved around projects and departments too often and the work suffer as engineers are placed on projects that don't match their expertise or utilize their skills."

"Nice company to work for."

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"Worked at Schwab for 9 years. Great company, but slow to move on ideas and hard to get new roles. As my relationship with my superior declined, work became horrible."

"In the late 90s the best company ever. Then after 9/11 it became a dark and ominous place. I had already left the company but their layoff procedures consisted of, everyone in the office, All doors locked, power off and then one by one being called in to either keep your job or lose it. That part I find reprehensible. On the other hand depending on the length of employment you were offered up to 15 months severance."

"Great people, great company, a lot of bureaucracy."

"I have been working at Charles Schwab managing Fixed Income Platform. I am responsible for architecture, design and development of features for FI Platform. I consider myself an expert in J2EE, REST, SOA and other distributed technologies."

"Very good company to work with and I have no issue with company working for last 10 year."

"Strong company and well known for its service and quality."

What do you like about working at Charles Schwab?

"the people are topnotch professionals in their fields, very professional and very nice"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"expect many interviews and the process to take a few months, and a rigorous background check too. worth the wait"

What don't you like about working at Charles Schwab?

"the environment is very structured and corporate, almost feels big brother like at times"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"require all people managers to participate in the management training sessions"

What do you like about working at Charles Schwab?

"great professional people excellent in their fields, all are extremely politeand very nice"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"know your subject matter and the company, do the research. expect a long wait and many interviews, with a rigorous background check"

What don't you like about working at Charles Schwab?

"very corporate and structured atmosphere, at times almost big brother like"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would promote more involvement in the management training for all the people managers"

What do you like about working at Charles Schwab?

"Yes, I like working at my previous company."

What don't you like about working at Charles Schwab?

"web function testing, bug tracking, write bug report and support releases."