I applied online. I interviewed at Charles Schwab in Oct 2020
Interview
The phone interview with the recruiter was about a week after I applied to the NERD program. It was a couple of simple STAR questions, as well as the four fundamentals of OOP and their descriptions. During the technical interview, which is typically a week or two after the phone interview, I was asked a few simple STAR questions again, asked a couple questions related to software engineering principles, asked about my personal projects, asked if I was familiar with certain concepts in Java/C#, and asked to do a very simple coding exercise which required familiarity with common data structures and array/string access and manipulation (Leetcode Easy). All of the questions (with the exception of the coding exercise) were phrased in such a way that they were just asking me if I'm familiar with a certain concept, not grilling me for an answer. Schwab gets back to candidates with an offer very quickly.
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.
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.
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.