Charles Schwab Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

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Negative

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

I went into my interview thinking it would be a standard manager/team technical conversation, and the opening felt normal enough.

The manager told me he’d schedule an in-person interview and that it would cover technical troubleshooting plus design and architecture on a whiteboard. When I arrived at the site, I was picked up in the lobby and brought to a conference room.

Then everything shifted: instead of a true face-to-face panel, it turned into a Teams setup where most of the interviewers essentially participated without cameras. Only one person turned theirs on for the small portion where they asked questions, and communication became genuinely frustrating because the loudness and mic quality made me ask people to

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