RUN! Schwab is a dinosaur company that will eat your soul - Senior Manager Charles Schwab Employee Review

I am horrified by Schwab's outdated technology and tolerance of inefficiency. I SEROUSLY REGRET COMMING TO THIS COMPANY! This is a company that operates from decade old discontinued Compaq computers loaded up with Microsoft 2003! Directors and above can select the equipment they want but you will not be allowed this option. This is the first company I have worked at in the last 15 years where people come to meetings without ipads or laptops. File sharing, calandar syncing, FTP sites, and most of the tools you are accustomed to using are disabled or non existant at Schwab.There is no HR available other than for remote training. If you have any issues tough. There are few training programs. This is an ideal place to be constantly frustrated by inefficiency. The halls are lined with 15 and 20-year employees that are resistant to any change. When there are failures (there are a lot) they become an Schwab cheerleading squad and tell you how innovative they are. You will become sick of hearing the word innovative as you sit in your beige cube at your Formica desk with a Compaq. Your technical work skills will be guaranteed to erode. You will lose 1 to 2 hours work time per day due to IT issues. On the upside they give you nice leather bound paper notebooks so you can take notes. You you will need to have this as you will not be allowed portable technology at Schwab. Beware of the perks of getting to see a financial advisor. These guys will try to put you into Schwab's low earning funds. They have no grasp of emerging technologies or the landscape of the international economy. You will be forced to move all of your accounts to Schwab and will be forced to use their outdated and ugly trading platform. There are minimal holidays off. If you want to know what 1979 felt and looked like, come to Schwab.