Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at UBS as 50% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3.75 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for AML Compliance Officer and Business Analyst rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for AML Compliance Officer and Telephone Interviewer roles were rated as the easiest.
After the online process you get to have a 15min telephone interview with the HR team. Usual competency questions. Be sure to know a lot about UBS, their recent deals, anything you've read about them in the news. Why UBS and why the division is very important. Other than that, one of the questions was "if you had one billion pounds, where would you invest them". The aim is to see how well you're prepared of course; have some stocks that you would buy ready.
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Question 1
Who are the main competitors of UBS? Where would you invest 1bn pounds? What makes UBS stand out from its competitors? Why are you right for the job? Tell me about a recent deal UBS has led (relating to the division you've applied to). And many more competency questions!
Contacted me when I was still working my summer internship. Had a phone interview on the spot and was invited to interview at their office in Chicago. When I came to their office a 4 weeks later, I waited for half an hour for the interviewer to show. She sounded very apathetic and was clearly not interested. The second interviewer was nicer, and we actually had a pleasant conversation about the stressful environment in the trading industry. I wasn't too surprised, as the culture was exactly like the reviews here, e.g. staff don't even know their interns' names.