Schwab is not the place to work that it used to be! - Project Manager Charles Schwab Employee Review

3.0
Dec 18, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The company believes in a strong work-life balance ethic, and that is a very attractive feature about working at Schwab. The sabbatical every 5 years is a nice benefit. These are some of the smartest people that I've worked with. Schwab spent alot of time and money developing good project managers. We have some of the best ones in the industry.

Cons

Senior management keeps changing and everytime someone new comes into the company, they have this tendency to reorganize. Also it appears that cronyism is setting in at top levels. Every few months I seem to have a new boss, so it is very difficult to get any traction and it becomes tiresome to start once again to build another relationship. No promotion potential; new leadership wants to get rid of Schwab's presence in San Francisco.

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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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