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Updated May 23, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Fixed Income Sales at UBS
Posted Jan 26, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2010 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took a day)
applied online and got straight to assessment centre. First thing was a maths test which was longer but easier than the SHL online ones. Then if you passed the maths test you could progress to the presentation. got given a piece of writing on apple to do a SWAT analysis... pressed for time! next stage was one on one interview and then a group discusion
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Presentation and a 1:1 Interview.
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Quantitative Analyst at UBS
Posted Jan 9, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2010 in City of London, England (United Kingdom) (took a day)
A paper-based test comes first, covers programming, probability and stochastic calculus.
Then get interviewed by two professionals, each 40 minutes. Questions are all technical or brainteasers, no behavourial ones.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Skills Test and a 1:1 Interview.
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Analyst at UBS
Posted Dec 2, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2010 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 5 weeks)
Applied online, got invitation to the interview. Day started with numerical reasoning test, which was easier than online, however the ammount of work was huge. Therefore, you have to work really quickly and accuratelly those 45 minutes. After that got 1:1 interview. It was really short one only half an hour, so it was basic competencies questions + a couple of technical questions. After a couple of days got rejected. After 3 more days taught coursemate how to to numerical reasoning as UBS asked her to return and redo the test and I quote the HR person in UBS "as she did not fail, just her points achieved were not high enough". Not surprisingly she did very well :). Strange system, favoritism at its best.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Graduate Training Program, Investment Banking Operations at UBS
Posted Oct 23, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2010 in City of London, England (United Kingdom) (took a day)
took a numerical test consisting of 40 questions, had to finish in 35min. And then invited to a face-to-face interview with a line manager from Operations. Asked basic questions like: Why IB, Why UBS, Why Operations. and I prepared well for those questions.
And then they asked some basic competency questions. I would say have a look at the UBS website, under the interview preparation section, they have actually listed the 7 Core Competencies that they are looking for. just prepare yourself according to that list. they won't ask a lot of unexpected questions. the interview was only 30 minutes.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Director at UBS
Posted Oct 3, 2010
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2010 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took a day)
Process -
A full day consisting of a test followed by several interviews and a personnel interview.
Test & most of the interviews went very well, but 1 or 2 questions came up during the day that I couldn't answer and I was not made an offer.
Advice -
1) Know *your* stuff. They will grill you in the general areas and you need to provide accurate answers.
2) Know *their* stuff or be prepared to defend your boundaries. They will also expect you to be expert in the job you are applying for. Either make sure you have all the answers or, where that's not possible, do not be afraid to say that some areas will doubtless be new to you and you are not yet at their level in those areas.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Operational Risk at UBS
Posted Sep 6, 2010
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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 Sep 2009 in City of London, England (United Kingdom) (took 3 days)
This was a fairly short interview process for me and I was honestly expecting ditto be drawn out much longer. I had 3 interviews consisting of 2 phone and one face to face over the span of three days. All lasted for approximately an hour. As my role was a simple graduate position, they were simply looking for a grounded understanding in the markets so this most likely contributed to me not running the gauntlet.
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I got the interview through a Staffing Agency and the interview consisted of a Background Check, a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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AML Compliance Officer at UBS
Posted Apr 19, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2010 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 2 days)
I applied directly to UBS and was contacted a couple of weeks later by one of their HR representatives. We discussed my background and skills. She felt my skill set matched the role they were recruiting for and invited me to an interview with the Head of AML EMEA and the team manager.
They each picked parts of my CV and asked for more detail, they then asked be to outline the current processes I applied.
The interview was approximately 1.5hrs.
A few days later I contacted HR for feedback. The representative forwarded the response from the hiring manager which basically said that none of the 5 candidates interviewed would be proceeding to the next round and she would be changing some of the details in the job specification.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Sales Trading at UBS
Posted Apr 7, 2010
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2009 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 2 days)
I experienced really good contact with HR before and during the interview process. I found the online resources to be engaging and pitched to the right level of understanding. The interview rounds were pretty much as expected - a presentation, a CV-based interview, a group task, an economics/markets interview. I felt relaxed at interview, and I think this showed.
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Never, ever undersell yourself.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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C++/Java Developer at UBS
Posted Mar 14, 2010
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2010 in City of London, England (United Kingdom) (took a day)
The first round was a 90 minutes paper-based technical exam. Totally 10 questions. Had to write the answers on paper. Questions were from three categories: 1) operation system knowledge - concepts of IPC, unix text tools (awk, sed, egrep), sections of a loaded process, etc; 2) C++/STL code review - predict program output, find out bugs; 3) TCP/IP questions - compare TCP and UDP.
Basically the questions are not hard. However, the knowledge range is relatively wide.
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Software Developer at UBS
Posted Feb 5, 2010
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2010 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took a day)
It was a telephonic technical interview. The guy who called me was just asking all basic java questions - classes, collections, garbage collection, design patterns, jdbc steps etc. Managed to answer most of them but did not get a call back. Interview was for half an hour and I guess there was huge competition for the role in the market.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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