UBS Software Engineer Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details – It's an on campus interview. One round only. Basic Java terminologies and simple String questions. Some behavior questions such as your plan in five years.

Reason for Declining – I accepted another offer.

Interview Details – Campus recruiting

Interview Details – Was invited for on campus interview first, which is basically a discussion of your resume. Then got invited to superday at their office location in Jersey. People were great. They changed the interview pattern a little, it's more technical now with a a few written coding questions.

Interview Details – Phone interview came first, then I went on site to meet with various groups.
This was actually back in Feb of 2007.
They asked java 1.5 questions (template type vectors), various elements of JSP, and some SQL. They must loved textbooks definitions.

Reason for Declining – salary offered was too low

Interview Details – Very fast and straight forward. It lasted around one hour. I was interviewed by 2 people, they were friendly and open. Questions were about my previous experience and some database related questions specific for their environment. Office was good and clean. Work culture open and friendly.

Negotiation Details – I gave them my previous salary and they gave me 5 k more. Not a lot of negotiation happened on my part, which I regret now.

Interview Details – I was interviewed by one person and they have asked questions regarding polymorphism, inheritance and an example of interfaces

Interview Details – I signed up for the position through my school career services. The interview was a 1:1 with a manager from the technology division.

Interview Details – Initial contact was a telephone interview with both technical questions and more general discussions about myself. The usual sort of core Java questions were asked: hashCodes/Equal and their use in HashMaps etc. Mainly questions to ensure that you know or at least have thought about what is going on under the Java APIs. The phone call was around 40 minutes.

This was then followed up with an in person interview in Switzerland. The interview was more of the same, technical interview with three teams over the course of an afternoon. The interview technique varies between teams but you can expect to have a well known computing problem to walk through. Remember the right answer is no always as important as showing your workings and talking to the interviewer about what you are doing and thinking. Other teams just wanted to talk about my cv, the role and why I was looking to move to Switzerland.

The office tour was brief but from what I saw it the open plan areas was very quiet (good or bad you decide) and desks seemed reasonably well equipped, though there were developers with only one screen or just a laptop.