UBS reviews

3.7

72% would recommend to a friend

(14,578 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 14,578 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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4.0
Aug 15, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Here are the good things I have experienced: -Busy and challenging environment. In IT and with the pandemic, I began my employment at 110%. I was thrown right in but I had a team that was willing to help out (when they had time). - The benefits are good compared to other larger companies I think. - All remote work and company is super flexible, allowing employees to work remotely at minimum until the end of the year and also not forcing folks to come back to the office if they are not comfortable. -Progressive company and responds to current events. -Plenty of employee resources and diversity groups. - Town halls from global address to regional ones. These are consistent in nature and provide good updates. -My leadership, at least, fights for employee training & development. Training resources internally are available but also allow you to go outside and find training and propose it. - There are a bunch of unified processes and automation which seem to work pretty well.

Cons

These are some cons I have experienced: -Onboarding in general is pretty hectic. There are multiple moments when you have no clue what to do and no direction. This occurs from HR to your own team. It seems there is no larger directive to make onboarding a more cohesive and enjoyable experience across the region or the company. Multiple times your team has no clue what is going on and HR does not know. It takes a lot of independent work and "click and find" to get everything going. - The interview process was somewhat unorganized. At one point, I thought I was out of the running and then I get an email one day, about a month later, saying I was in the final round.... - All the different teams and their names. Teams have odd names and there is no real directory I have seen to be able to figure out what people actually do. UBS has a "Who Is Who" directory and it is cool to look at that but it does not truly provide team names and explanations about what people do. Would like to see something added that spells it out more.

1.0
Jun 30, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Salary and ability to work from home when needed.

Cons

Corporate culture is old school so most people do not like working there. They stay there for the salary and wfh, also because there are fewer jobs outside now. Seem to be alot of people with zero people/managerial skills in management due to the way that promotions are done on the basis of working hard for 2-3 years in a lower job. Those who know they are good but miss out on promotions due to having a bad manager end up leaving within 2 years.

1.0
Apr 23, 2020

Avoid at all costs

Recommend
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Pros

you will learn how unprofessional people can be, and it will lower your expectations from people in general

Cons

-low pay; below industry standard. No bonuses, no raises. Whatever you negotiated--this is what you will make for the duration of your time at UBS. -extremely unprofessional rude people. I worked in Management Consulting Group (MD was a joke, his favorites would yell at people and disrespect others--nothing will be done) and I worked with MDs and Directors across the bank--same story: just push your work on others, humiliate them, promote culture of fear and bulling--and eventually, in 10 years, you will get promoted. -backstabbing. If you dont know how or cannot do that--this is not a place for you. You HAVE TO be rude, push work on others, turn things to put other people in trouble, go to the highest manager and tell lies about other people--all to make sure management never looks at what you are doing -Zurich and London management is a joke too. They make you fill out a monthly survey. which is NOT anonymous, then a manager from London calls you to ask why you are unhappy and softly hints you--you are free to leave -very toxic culture, stay away -no promotions, like i said above--it takes on average 7-10 years unless you are the favorite one. They also constantly tell you at the yearend review that you are a step away from being fired, but they will give you another chance to keep your job, obviously you are not qualified for a promotion. -insurance is very expansive and the worst I have ever had, and I worked at other big banks and corporations

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