Lots of Potential to be great but not there yet... - Manager Charles Schwab Employee Review

3.0
Jan 16, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Schwab allows you a place to grow movement opportunity between departments such as owrking in a branch to working in finance which gives you a chance to learn a lot of areas. Schwab supports life/work balance with good time off, sabbatical for up to 4 weeks at a time every 5 years which is unusual for a US firm or finance firm. There investment philosophy (conservative) has helped their balance sheet in this time...

Cons

Lot of re-org, turnover in upper management which causes new "relationship" development etc and other company ongoing changes in our mission etc., fewer career advancement opportunities because management heavy. There is a belief the only way to really advance is if you leave the company then come back.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
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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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