UBS reviews

3.7

72% would recommend to a friend

(14,624 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 14,624 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 Finanza industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Jan 6, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Some good people, although most of the best have left. The people that remain would survive a nuclear blast - they are not going anywhere and likely could not even if they wanted to.

Cons

Performance, stock, Swiss oversight, but other than that... There are no real career paths on the institutional side at UBS.

1.0
Dec 19, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

similar to other big banks, but can't find anything worth mentioning

Cons

surprisingly high turnover rate, no morale and no team work at all. People tend to attack each other instead of help each other at work. There are changes from senior management every week - they seem always able to justify the reason for changing A to B then back to A again.

2.0
Sep 29, 2013

UBS like many employers, looks better from outside than inside

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Global reach for a bank like UBS is always good. It has also the particularity to pay better than market as UBS is just an hungry consumer and not a people riser... Still a few fantastic professional and very knowledgeable persons (who are trying to leave the boat unfortunately)

Cons

Middle management is absolutely crap. They are always on the go to new project (i.e. often pre-run processes or systems or business approach in other institutions or industries) and they will always need to have an extremely formalized approach that takes for ever as mid-mgt does not decide anything...At the first hick-up, they would stop everything and find someone to blaim (usually the very last one in the chain who has no clue whats going on)...lots of evil people and cowards on top of it ...plus no vision at all... many bankers who have less knowledge than beginners sometimes.. (many people managing something they reaaaally dont understand and just try to compensate with communication - meant wind here - ridiculous indeed) As a consequence, absolutely no people management or career enhancement... UBS good at personal marketing, good at talking about innovation but not open to change through innovation and hence killing in the eggs is a 'national sport' Hiring process: they want best of the best, launching job description that more than 80% or UBS employees cant even dream about accomplishing it once in their life...so they pay at high rate and later, once you are in, either you've got a very musculous tongue or you are off the page UBS is doing good in business at the moment, but this does not impact yet career development (horizontally, vertically and/or geographically)

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