UBS reviews

3.7

72% would recommend to a friend

(14,562 total reviews)
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Sergio P. Ermotti

84% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

UBS has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 14,562 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The UBS employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finanzas industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Jul 21, 2018

Stagnant workplace

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Pros

I worked in the ops dept UBS under a contract company full time for the past 2 years. While I am not directly employed at UBS, the benefits such as leaves and medical benefits are decent enough.

Cons

- same role for the past 2 years: i was doing the same task for the past 2 years with no opportunity to learn other tasks in other teams because the work load is so heavy that they are not able to sacrifice any amount of time to train staff to process other documents. -compromising quality for quantity: mgt would rather overwork their staff than hire new staff to assist with the growing workload- and you would get blamed if you are not able to cope with the unrealistic workload that is constantly growing. They do not take into consideration that you are human and that you do get tired too. They expect you to be accurate and consistently fast at all times for every single work day. Be prepared to get questioned if you slip for just 1 day. -favouritism abounds: only people who are considered close to the line manager would be noticed and praised regardless of merit. The mgt here is a bit blind to who is actually contributing. - achievements not recognised: this leads me to continue on to this point where only those who are recognised by the line manager would get acknowledged for their contributions. - old mindset: for a company that apparently embraces diversity( anything different etc.) and keeps harping about it all the damn time, the line managers here still utilises face time to gauge the quality/value of an employee. Bottom line is, if you dont ot, you aren't a good employee. Absence of work-life balance: since your line managers expects you to OT, you can bet that work-life balance is non existent. I wont even rate it a zero. It's actually a negative.

2.0
May 12, 2018

Be ware of mediocrity and lip service culture

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Pros

Good work life balance, respect for humans being

Cons

Political, no will to make organisation really global. Command and control, technology is and technical teams are mediocre. Bureaucracy runs high in veins under name of doing “right” things, however everything is wrong

2.0
Apr 10, 2018
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Pros

The firm can pay well if you are considered an "essential" employee. Very international team, and you certainly get the sense of working for a global firm.

Cons

The heart of the firm is a Swiss Bank. Once you've been there a few years, you'll discover that all employees are not equal; Swiss are treated well, everyone else in the US is good for as long as you might be useful. The Risk Control area is undergoing stringent cost cutting at risk of creating problems for tomorrow (they are definitely cutting well below in Risk vs. US firms), and good senior folks are being shown the door, while Swiss employees replacing US personnel at all levels on expat contracts. Be very careful about being a senior hire here. HR has fired numerous employees for "cause", usually on trumped up charges in order to avoid paying out deferred compensation and severance. This place is only as good as your last direct deposit.

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