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Updated Mar 12, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Finance/Accounting Internship at UBS
Posted Mar 12, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2012 in Stamford, CT (took 3 weeks)
Got the first round interview through my career services. First round was at my school, first there was a greeter who is currently in the Graduate Training Program to answer any of your questions. Then my interview was with two finance managers. They asked why my school, why Finance, why UBS, a time a made a difference, group project questions, what their stock price was. I was then invited to go to the "Superday". Everyone was really nice and we had a pretty cool lunch room where we met with the current GTPs and the other candidates. The schedule was 3, 30 minute one on one interviews with 30 minute breaks in between followed by a group exercise. Everyone was really nice and was given the offer the following week.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Background Check, a Drug Test, a Group/Panel Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Group Technology Business Analyst at UBS
Posted Mar 9, 2012
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in Stamford, CT (took 5 weeks)
Was interviewed on campus. Lots of questions on testing and software development. Somehow made it to the second round which was held after two weeks. Two rounds of interviews and a group discussion followed. The interviews were more of fit based and went well but the group discussion was more or less a farce.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Operations Analyst at UBS
Posted Oct 31, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Stamford, CT (took 2 weeks)
I met a recruiter at a conference and later forwarded along my resume because I was impressed by their poise and interest in me. They called me to schedule a phone interview about a week later. It was rescheduled once but they were very professional about it. The phone interview was pretty standard with a lot of questions about my resume and interest in operations. I was called the next day and informed that I was invited to their superday for college students. I went and was very impressed with their facility and their employees. It consisted of three interviews with managers and more questions about my resume and interest in operations. There were no tricky business questions or cases. I found most people pretty engaging and interesting, and almost everyone was friendly, including the other recruits. They called me a week later and made an offer.
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No negotiation
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Tax Intern at UBS
Posted Oct 28, 2011
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 in Stamford, CT (took 2 weeks)
Half hour phone interview. Called in for a "Super Day". Turned out to just be 3 individual interviews. Very conversational, nothing tough
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Drug Test.
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Director at UBS
Posted Aug 17, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2011 in Stamford, CT (took 4+ weeks)
My interview process was fairly standard. A friend referred me and put in a good word with HR. I had to complete an online profile. This was followed up with a phone screen and 4 in-person interviews. They were in need of someone fairly quickly, so hiring process was accelerated. Key would be to work your network. Without a recruiter or inside connection, it seems difficult to get in here.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Background Check, a Drug Test, a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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FX Trader at UBS
Posted Jul 12, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 in Stamford, CT (took a day)
majorly fit questions, why you want to become a trader, what do you know about FX trading, etc. if we hire you, what preparation would you do to be more qualified, and why should we hire you.
Plus: if someone in your group performed below your expectations, what would u do?
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Technology Intern at UBS
Posted Jun 27, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 in Stamford, CT (took 2 days)
The process began with a half hour interview on campus, comprising of mostly resume based questions. When I cleared that, I was invited to the super day. There were three rounds of interview followed by a group actvity. The three interviews were one-on-one and comprised mostly of behavioral questions and few questions about my knowledge of UBS. The group activity comprised of tasks related to making decisions, formulating strategies as a team.
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I did not negotiate. I applied for a summer internship.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Operations Summer Analyst at UBS
Posted Apr 10, 2011 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 in Stamford, CT (took 3 weeks)
Currently a Junior at an undergraduate business school. UBS was recruiting on campus for On Campus Recruitment (or OCR) so I applied through my school's career site and UBS's career page as well (both required). Was contacted via email by my school. Schedule an interview with and met with the regional director in the Northeast. It was very informal but unlike my other interviews, he was not as social or friendly. Got a second round/superday. Flew from Ithaca to JFK, all expenses paid. Then took the train to Stamford. Arrived and then greeted by HR. Was taken into a room full of other candidates, mostly kids in top 30 schools (Cornell, Columbia, NYU, Rutgers, etc). Given a schedule of who and when we're interviewing. Had a few back to back interviews as well as a few 1v1 and 2v2. People here are very diverse not only in terms of demographics but also personality wise. Some were pretty social and friendly, some were very strict and business like. After individual interviews, we were taken into another room for a "presentation". It was basically a group project where we discuss what to do about a certain situation. After that, we were taken for a tour of the trading floor. Not that impressed, but it was pretty big. They seemed really proud of it.
Overall the whole process was very organized and somewhat exciting and enjoyable. Everyone was very professional and polite, although there were a few exceptions. The interviewing style of my the analysts are more causal while the higher up and more "down to business" type. They are mostly looking for fit and to see if you are smart and capable. There were one or two technical ones but nothing that you can't answer unless if you even paid slight attention in econ class. I can safely say, compared to my other interviews in middle office/general finance, accounting, wealth management, risk; UBS's process was easily the most organized and the LONGEST by far. Like I mentioned before, it was somewhat enjoyable. You really get a feel of their culture and people once you're there.
Back to the interviews itself. UBS' interviewers basically all ask similar questions. Things to really know well since I got asked all of the ones listed (sometimes even more than once) 1) **Why UBS, 2) **Why Operations 3) Your resume 4) A time when you demonstrated leadership and/or teamwork 3) Strength/Weakness 4) **A Time/Project when you added value or improved something 5) **Past accomplishments 6) Why did you leave your last job 7) What motivates you 8) **Easy finance/econ questions 9) stay on top of the markets 10) A book that you read) 11) **Tell me about yourself/your background
The ones that has a ** are the more important/more frequently asked ones
All in all, I would say two weeks for your resumes to get selected. After you are selected, you wait one week until you scheduled interview. Then if you pass your first round, they'll call you in one more week to tell you when's superday (most of the time it's Thursday or Friday). Then wait another week for superday. After superday, they usually get back to you in 2-3 weeks. So the spread between application and offer is roughly 6-8 weeks.
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No, they pay all analysts the same regardless of other others. I tried leveraging my Citi finance offer, but they would not budge. Did give me a summer bonus, which is nice. I do not know any other banks that does that.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Presentation, a Group/Panel Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Group Technology - Intern at UBS
Posted Mar 20, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 in Stamford, CT (took 4+ weeks)
The interview process was pretty straightforward, consisting of a campus interview and then 3 interviews at the Superday. The interviews very simple and more mostly behavioural. In fact one of the superday interviewer was very friendly and had a nice chat with him instead of interviewing. It consisted of questions like Tell me about yourself?, What are your strengths and weeknesses? Describe your project work? your toughest challenge? How do think an ideal interview should be conducted? Why are you considering UBS? What course did you most learn from? One guy asked me to draw a block diagram of one of the projects I had done to test my whiteboard skills. All in all an interesting experience
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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IT Test Engineer at UBS
Posted Feb 15, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 in Stamford, CT (took a day)
The first round was held on campus. In this round, the interviewer asked a few basic questions: behavioural as well as technical. The questions were simple and covered topics like Inheritance, Recursion, Types of testing, focussed mainly on User Acceptance Testing.
The second round, as they call it the Superday, consisted of 3 interviews, all of them were behavioural. Though for some other positions they were technical as well as behavioural. They asked questions relating to team work, responsibility, decision making and innovation categories.
And lastly there was a group activity in which we were given a 5 page write up and 5 mins to read that write up and 30 mins to discuss it with the group. Focussed on team efforts.
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