The interview process was very straight forward. After a phone screen, I was scheduled for 1 round of interviews with 5 individuals. I met with folks in various departments. It was a great opportunity to get to know the various groups. In general the experience was great. I found the culture to be warm and welcoming. The average tenure of folks I interviewed with was about 6 years.

Process is largely behavioral and lengthy. All in all, interviewed 11 times combined for two roles. Each time the process dragged out over 4-6 weeks only to be a finalist and lose the offer in the end. By the time I got to the end of each process, interview fatigue was real and there’s only so many times you can tell someone how you would turn around a team or develop a product strategy. Feedback on interview performance was slow to be given and always came down to an internal candidate with a shorter learning curve. My feedback for Schwab is if you need more than 3 interviews to decide on a candidate, then you probably don’t want them and should cut them loose sooner. Also would suggest to not ghost candidates in between interviews, especially with such a lengthy process. All this being said, the leaders I interviewed with were all sharp people that had been with Schwab 10 plus years and the work is demanding and interesting. Even though I was asked to interview for a third role, I will be moving on because the candidate management process is too much time investment with no return.