Great place to work for the older crowd - Intern Charles Schwab Employee Review

5.0
Jul 24, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

THe people there are very helpful. They are always willing and make time to help you with a question or problem, be it related to work or not. The office is in a good location in san francisco. parking is not difficult. Projects can be long and ongoing but managers are supportive of individual initiatives. It's a you get what you put into it culture.

Cons

Schwab is still in the process of restructuring and there is a lot of movement. There is still a lot of burecracy since it is a SEC governed company. Many people are not workaholics--there is a great work life balance but on the downside it takes longer to get things done sometimes.

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Cons

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Pros

-Paycheck comes on time most weeks -8% 401k match is very competitive

Cons

-Raises our very low. The “exceeding expectations” raise has been around 3% for the last three years, which is under inflation. -AI is used as the primary way of grading performance, however the way that this AI grades is kept secret from us doing the work. You can have great feedback from client but if the AI scores you low, you will be written up/fired. - Client data entry and account operations have been outsourced to low-quality processors India. Every single day you will deal with issues because of how much sloppy work is being done. There is no follow up or problem-solving regarding these errors, they are just a fact of life at Schwab, and you need to double check pretty much everything being done here. -Most members of leadership, when sharing their personal story, will share that Schwab was their second choice. They call someone who has left Schwab and then come back a “schwabarang” and many members of leadership are Schwabarangs. This can easily be felt in the nature and character of the leadership where the focus is on KPI numbers and keeping costs as low as possible over any kind of improvement of operational effectiveness

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