UBS Reviews

Pros

Unique opportunity for growth whereyou can continue to acquire skills and to develop your career. Exciting and challenging working environment. Limitless opportunities.

Cons

The firm is generally very thinly staffed. When it works well, it provides for a rich and intense experience, rapid learning, great advancement in exposure and responsibility.

Advice to Senior Management

Be very careful about resource levels. The longer term cost to the organization from stretching people. too far will far outweigh .

Pros

UBS is dedicated to furthering knowledge of the employee and getting them to be the very best that he or she can be.

Cons

When I worked with UBS the site was more focused on getting me to learn about the industry in general rather that their own company

Pros

you get to work with people from all over the world. there are always events going on to try to boost employee morale. the company has taken a few financial hits but has bounced back due their security initiatives.

Cons

outsourcing of jobs. working with limited resources.

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

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

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

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

1. compensation is competitive
2. team relationships are quite friendly
3. if you are not working with clients, starting time is flexible

Cons

There was not good project management staff. They have project management office but most of project managers are product of hallo effect and they do not have good understanding of project management

Pros

Relative security of job ?

Cons

Opportunities of growth and promotion very different in the bank.

Advice to Senior Management

More leadership and way of promotion more based on performance.

Pros

salary is above the industry mean . with signing bonus . team is friendly and competitive . overall not bad to be a starting place

Cons

low reputation at all fields except fx . the bank is suffering from huge losses and due to CHF appreciation . need ot work way more hard to get bonus

Advice to Senior Management

it's all fine . the application process is smooth .but the thorough enough . HR sometimes rude regarding the the questions. i will chose UBS among the offer