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 Finanza industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
May 15, 2019

Worst work culture and employee satisfaction.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

If you are only for brand name , this the place for you.

Cons

It doesn't have work ethics and culture as per investment bank standard. They do a lot of wrong hires and play with employees career. Most of their employees are dissatisfied as their roles doesn't match with they had applied and promised for. UBS can even ruin your career by terminating your employment anytime if the project dissolves and won't pay you lay off bonus by calling it as performance issue. If you are only looking for brand name and salary then this the place for you but there won't be job satisfaction and respect. No / meager bonus for junior to mid level .

5.0
Sep 30, 2018

Registered Client Service Associate

Anonymous employee
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Pros

This was a good firm with a great staff. Nice workplace that, although busy and stressful most of the time, it was an enjoyable experience with great people and if I didn't have to relocate I would still be there,

Cons

Was difficult getting help from Operations as they were always in meetings or on conference calls. Very strict corporate policies, by the book with no room for mistakes.

1.0
Aug 10, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

- Lot of vacation days - Lot of smart people - Good downtown location

Cons

- Zero opportunity for promotion, its hard finding anyone that was promoted without leaving first and coming back, which is apparently the working formula to get a raise - Performance reviews are 1 - 5 stars, but they will never give you more 3 even if you have worked like a slave and reached all the objectives set out for you in your performance meeting at beginning of the year, just look at the UBS ticker on NYSE and you can see why nobody is getting promoted or a decent raise, not rocket science, just poor business management hidden under the guise of you not performing - They wont fire anyone who is a perm UBS employee. Yes thats right, loooot of dead weight sitting around, one older guy who is clearly hammered at work quite often working out of Weehawken office, going home at 2pm, just riding out the train until he retires. Another guy that was taking sick days 3 or 4 times a month because they dont track them - Management is constantly doing re-orgs, which is laughable comedy amongst the grunt workers in Nashville office, they send out a new email nearly every other week tooting their horns of who is in what new position, its like musical chairs every month, they have not a damn clue wtf they are doing - Technology at UBS is the most antiquated, unorganized, paper / approval heavy monster I have ever seen, people have left for this alone - Very PC, everything so politically correct, people afraid to crack jokes and mess around, feels like your in the boy scouts or a church youth group, utterly strange from a culture perspective - You pay for your own parking at the office, they make the contractors take a shuttle from Nissan Stadium, which is sad and creates a culture of segregation

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