Charles Schwab Software Engineer interview experience

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Southlake, TXPosted Sep 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview experience was intense and unusually deep, and it immediately felt more like a targeted Salesforce technical deep dive than a general software engineer screen.

The conversation went straight into Salesforce fundamentals at a granular level, starting with how profiles relate to permissions and moving through the mechanics of assignment rules.

From there, I was drawn into workflow logic: workflow rules, how flows fit into automation, and the way change data capture and asynchronous triggers work under the hood. The interviewer also pushed into testing practices, including test classes, and then the discussion extended into the platform UI side—how Apex connects to Lightning Web Components.

Even though it was still interview-style questioning (not a

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