UBS Reviews in New York City, NY Area

Pros

Good Salary+benefits,brand name,work home balance.

Cons

Insecurity of a layoff due to banking industry crunches nowadays.You don't know what will happen just tommorow in the office.

Advice to Senior Management

Pleaaaaase recognise the genuine- working hard -employees,even if they are new.An expertise is an expertise and he definitely benefits an Organization.Praise/motivation/recognition and efforts for them are a must otherwise why will they stay?

Pros

Better atmosphere than most finance jobs.

Cons

People can be difficult. If you are not in, then you are out.

Advice to Senior Management

No works of advice at the moment.

Pros

Brand name wirehouse so that definitely helps

Cons

This is true only for Private Wealth Management, but the Corporate Management seemed to place results above all else without regard to their employees

Advice to Senior Management

hire new management

Pros

easy commute, outside of high management mostly decent people

Cons

horrible leadership. used to be if not pru then go away, now if not merrill you are nothing

Advice to Senior Management

know who you are speaking to. stop putting down your workers by telling them how much they sucked before the ML crew showed up

Pros

Positive atmosphere, Can do approach, Accountability & Responsibility

Cons

Last couple of years has been a challenge due to extraneous situations. Hope 2012 to be a turn around year

Pros

You make a lot of money and it provides with you great benefits on top of all of the other great things it does.

Cons

It also can be boring and kind of sucks to have to report to a boss and have to follow a lot of rules.

Advice to Senior Management

They are pretty good but could definitely use some consulting management to change a few things about how they run things there.

Pros

Great location to work, benefits very competitive
Open and transparent culture
Has world-leading WM, Research, and Equities platform
APAC business is on the up

Cons

Can be overly bureaucratic at times
Taken some bad decisions re. the investment bank

Pros

A lot of very smart people work at UBS. It is very rare to find a weak senior manager in IT and the quality of the IT products are generally quite high. Furthermore, most of the key IT processes are well developed, so learning the UBS way of doing things will serve you well if you move to another firm. Strong emphasis is placed on employee growth and feedback, and the employee evaluation process (PMM) is thoughtfully managed.

Cons

(writing in late 2011) the overall strategy of the firm is under review, so candidates should do their best to make sure that any role they take will continue to be part of the strategy in the coming months.

Pros

Good work life balance at all levels

Cons

Mgt is incompetent; managers who caused huge losses are still at helm of Investment Bank; enormous bureaucracy

Advice to Senior Management

Bring in competent management

Pros

Major bulge bracket firm, global platform

Cons

Culture, bad performance, face time

Advice to Senior Management

focus on retaining staff