I applied online. I interviewed at Charles Schwab (Austin, TX) in Oct 2020
Interview
One of the best interviewsI had so far. I was approached by a recruiter(very professional and caring) with a simple phone screening. Was asked about concepts of OOP. Then the second round of interview was after two weeks. It was via WebEx with Senior Engineers and Project Managers. Had a coding challenge where they tried to see my problem-solving ability rather than my coding skills.
The interview lasted for like 2 hours where we discussed about my entire education and work history. It was very friendly and comfortable. I believe they knew each thing about me.
Then the recruiter called me after an hour giving me an offer which I accepted .
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Phone Screening:
Concepts of OOP
Second Interview:
Coding exercise about data structure
Questions from Resume and previous work experience (Database, Normalization, Generics, Run Time Complexity, Stacks)
Other behavioral questions (problems faced and approach to solve it)
Received a call from a recruiter stating that he would like to schedule me for an interview the following week. I had to follow up 3 times to get scheduled as he claimed that he had been “too busy” and stated that he would schedule me. I never received an invite. Completely unprofessional.
5 rounds of tech and non-tech interviews with several team members. All very pleasant. Technical interview in the last round. Algorithms question was straightforward but I bombed. Nothing more to say, really.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Charles Schwab
Interview
First, there was a phone call with recruiter. This didn't seem to go anywhere until i was randomly contacted by a hiring manager for an entirely different role. Had a short phone screen and was passed on to a technical challenge.
Technical challenge: No online environment was set up and I was told I HAD to use C# and share my screen. There were issues with my webcam and I wanted to reschedule since about 20 minutes was wasted trying to get software to recognize webcam did exist and was connected to my computer (it worked on other software on computer). Would not reschedule and forced interview forward. NONE of the 3 interviewers put on their webcams which i found very unprofessional. Asked some Angular/C# questions and then picked a random algorithm.
Took 3 weeks to get back to say they passed on me.