Is taking an Architect position with the CTO worth? Thoughts on technical roles at Schwab?
What should I expect? Comments about the environment? Just saw some posts about a toxic environment.
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It's almost inexplicable how this place could continue on as well as it has, but to stay on topic of layoffs two examples will suffice. They cut an entire technology office without knowing what they did, which sent some of the biggest and brightest minds in a company well ahead of Schwab in technology terms out the door. Then just a few weeks ago they cut the entire team responsible for client messaging only days before a client migration only to find out they were the only ones who could publish the material and had to go hire at least one of them back. There's more but you get the idea. The definition of insanity is continually telling people how great the company is and how much it cares about them when their actions reflect the opposite.
Only skill needed is fancy powerpoints. Directors here specifically hire people who are good at powerpoint. Nothing else matters really, it is just a mad toxic race between departments on who has fancier looking powerpoints.
How does this position compare to a position in BofA or Fidelity for example?
I once was on a call with a cloud architect, think his name was Brendan. Bald dude that just pontificated for a whole hour. Learned so much on how to speak without saying anything meaningful. If this is you, Schwab architecture is perfect .
Yes, it's definitely "worthed". You will fit right in.
If you like the idea of specifying architecture for things you know nothing about, based purely on what your boss read in a magazine on the flight back from his last offsite junket, then it's great!
As long as you say yes to your boss, any position is great a Schwab.