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Charles Schwab Senior Software Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Updated 27 Mar 2024

Charles Schwab Senior Software Engineer Interview Experiences

1 interview found

Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Walk-in and was interviewed before Mar 2023. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. How would you design tiny url implementation?
  • Ans. 

    Design a system to create and manage short URLs for long URLs.

    • Use a database to store mappings of short URLs to long URLs.

    • Generate a unique short URL for each long URL using a hashing algorithm.

    • Implement a redirect service to redirect users from short URLs to long URLs.

    • Consider adding expiration dates for short URLs to manage storage.

    • Implement analytics to track usage of short URLs.

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Steps :-
1) Functional requirement analysis
2) Non-Functional requirement analysis
3) Capacity estimation
4) Low level system design
5) High level system design

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview questions from similar companies

I was interviewed before May 2016.

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Written Test
Experience: I attended interview at hyderabad location for java Sr.Software Engineer.
1Q) Find out given string palindrome or not.
Ex: madam
2Q) Find first and last index searching number in a array.
Ex: [1,2,3,3,3,3,4,5]
Output : 2,5
3Q) Arrange Strings in alphabetical order.

Tips: Prepare numeric and string related algorithms

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. Design patterns, architecute based questions, some questions on .net and .net core

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Oct 2022. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
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Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Zookeeper role in Kafka
  • Ans. 

    Zookeeper is used for managing Kafka cluster and maintaining its metadata.

    • Zookeeper stores metadata about Kafka brokers, topics, partitions, and consumer groups.

    • It helps in leader election and broker failure detection.

    • Kafka clients use Zookeeper to discover the current state of the Kafka cluster.

    • Zookeeper also helps in maintaining the offset of messages consumed by a consumer group.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. What is OAuth Topic vs Queue
  • Ans. 

    OAuth is an open standard for authorization that allows users to share their private resources stored on one site with another site.

    • OAuth allows users to grant access to their private resources on one site to another site without sharing their credentials.

    • It is commonly used by social media platforms to allow users to sign in to third-party apps using their social media accounts.

    • OAuth 2.0 is the most widely used versio...

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Read about web application architecture basics and cloud basics

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
2
Poor
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
-
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Apr 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Longest Increasing Subsequence
  • Ans. 

    Find the length of the longest increasing subsequence in an array.

    • Use dynamic programming to solve this problem efficiently.

    • Iterate through the array and keep track of the longest increasing subsequence ending at each index.

    • Example: For array [10, 22, 9, 33, 21, 50, 41, 60, 80], the longest increasing subsequence is [10, 22, 33, 50, 60, 80] with length 6.

  • Answered by AI
Round 2 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. UseEffect polyfill

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Frequency of character in string
  • Ans. 

    The question is asking about how to find the frequency of each character in a given string.

    • Iterate through the string and count the occurrences of each character

    • Store the counts in a data structure like a hashmap or array

    • Return the counts for each character

  • Answered by AI
Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Reverse a string
  • Ans. 

    Reverse a given string

    • Create a new empty string to store the reversed string

    • Iterate through the original string from end to start and append each character to the new string

    • Return the reversed string

  • Answered by AI

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Coding Test 

Few basics of java
Dsa question

Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Java multithreading questions
  • Q2. Spring boot questions.
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed in Apr 2023. There were 4 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
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Round 2 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. - Questions about my experience, skills, role and expectations,
Round 3 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. - Questions on Java, Spring boot and Memory optimization.
Round 4 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. - REST Architecture - How to compare two lists? - Git stash, checkout, commit and pull - Unit testing - SQL
Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Feb 2024. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Discussion of prior experience 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Tell about yourself
  • Ans. 

    I am a Senior Software Engineer with 8 years of experience in developing scalable and efficient software solutions.

    • Experienced in full stack development using technologies like Java, Spring Boot, Angular, and SQL

    • Strong background in designing and implementing RESTful APIs

    • Proficient in Agile methodologies and working in cross-functional teams

    • Passionate about continuous learning and staying updated with the latest techno

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Your confidence level with Java
  • Ans. 

    Highly confident in Java with 8+ years of experience in developing complex applications

    • 8+ years of experience in Java development

    • Proficient in Java programming language features and best practices

    • Extensive experience in developing complex applications using Java

    • Familiar with Java frameworks and libraries such as Spring, Hibernate, and Apache Commons

    • Comfortable with multi-threading, performance optimization, and debuggi

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Interview is mostly focused on your experience. Use case related questions to understand your experience with the required skills for the position

Skills evaluated in this interview

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Oct 2021. There were 3 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

2 Questions

  • Q1. Java concepts
  • Q2. Selenium, GIT, CI/CD

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Interview was bit easy. Prepare for Java concepts and CI/CD

Charles Schwab Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Charles Schwab Senior Software Engineer interview?
Charles Schwab interview process usually has 1 rounds. The most common rounds in the Charles Schwab interview process are Technical.

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