Charles Schwab reviews

- You HAVE to be off the phones for (2x) two 15min breaks over the course of the entire 8-10 hours that make up your work schedule due to some federal worker protection rights… or something, but hey, you ARE encouraged to use that THAT time for yourself… to get up and use the bathroom, or get some water… just be careful a client call doesn’t take you into that randomly assigned 15min scheduled break, otherwise you will be hurting your metrics as you are no longer adhering to your schedule. - The fat checks your friends assume you make from commissions on trades as a Stock Trader will be 100% less than ANY fast food employee taking a burger order at a counter that happens to set out a Tip Jar… since the “$25 Broker Assisted Fee” clients have to pay PER TRADE for using your services is NOT ACTUALLY paid to YOU (the Broker that had, well, done the assisting). …instead, you nervously navigate a never ending call volume full of a complex game of avoiding the minefield of Trade/Market Risk, Firm Risk, or Regulatory Risk that at best you never hear from the client again, or worse, end up in a client filing a trade dispute later on that can lead to a “Trade Error” that is attached to your professional license like a FINRA “scarlet letter” looming over your career here and at any other competitor.

The company culture promotes privilege and an overall elitist mindset. I've worked in three different departments in my time here and have seen the same behaviors in each one. People tattle on each other, make up lies, and try to stab you in the back to promote themselves and steer people away from their incompetence. Many people are bad at their jobs but get promoted or receive opportunities they're not qualified for because they've been there for so long. The Executives pretend to care about their employees, but they don't. We were one of the last companies to go remote when COVID hit. They were actually mandating that people keep coming in when other companies mandated you stay home. Yes, the CEO actually sent a firm wide email telling all employees that we needed to come in because technology couldn't support us all working from home at the same time. They also instituted COVID pay for the first two months of the pandemic which entitled you to paid time off (that didn't count against vacation or sick time) if you tested positive for COVID or came in contact with someone who did. But they cut this right before the cases spiked and numerous employees got sick. Did they reinstate it? No. Why not? Because it was all for show, like everything they do at this company. Fake it til you make it is the Charles Schwab way.