I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at UBS (Poona) in Jul 2015
Interview
Was directly called for a F2F interview with 2 people. They make you wait in the waiting lounge of the hotel where the interview is held.
People who finished their interviews before you keep coming periodically to this lounge. So does the neatly dressed HR to let them know one after the ther that "the team would contact her/him later". On this particular day, almost all of them were made to go away. Needless to say it was a polite way of saying no.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Tell us about yourself.
2. Let's discuss last 3 of the projects you have worked on.
3. What was the architecture like? Draw the architecture layers (or just blocks) and specify the corresponding technologies used to implement them. Grilled completely on this question.
4. Some standard Java questions like "how does a HashMap work", "Java synchronization mechanisms including CyclicBarrier and CountdownLatch"
5. Last 4-5 minutes were kept for the candidate to ask questions.
Total interview duration - 1 hour 15 minutes. Verdict - No offer
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at UBS in Sep 2014
Interview
A long thorough interview process with multiple relevant people across the organization. First meeting will be with HR hiring manager to do initial screening. The next stage of interviewers will be with the line manager for the position and relevant peers. Last rounds will be with more senior leaders of the organization.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at UBS in Sep 2010
Interview
HR was incredibly professional. When UBS is ready to hire, they will interview immediately and expect and answer immediately. The whole process was less than a week, but I know for others it can take months...until they need head count in the hiring area, then it is important to be in the right place.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Do you know what we do here? (The answer is hardly ever yes, but show that you did some homework)