UBS insider - Anonymous employee UBS Employee Review

3.0
Aug 26, 2009
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

UBS is a great place to work if you are in front/middle office with its prestige and great work life balance. We have parties after parties and they are very extravagant affairs. Benefits are great

Cons

However things are different in the support back office functions. Management often have bad directions or display poor mgt skills of 'cane and stick' method if things go bad and life is v beauracratic

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Pros

Strong culture, global brand, good people

Cons

Continuous changes, team dependent upward mobility

3.0
Jun 28, 2026
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Pros

Good Learning opportunities, Tech savvy compared to other banking / fintech companies

Cons

Too much offshore, low cost resource strategies, Gap between functional & IT resources, CS merger favored many UBS employees and massive layoffs post UBS - CS merger. Hardly any bonus or pay increments.

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