UBS reviews

I was sold on an analytical role at the company, when I really got there I felt a little lied too. In reality the role was much more operational. Also, the archaic systems make it impossible to do any real analytics work. A lot of systems were built by external 3rd parties, and as a result they are overly complicated and inefficient. If your someone working in analytics do yourself a favor and look elsewhere. I was lucky enough to get out before wasting much time there. I had no experience in Finance but the amount of meetings these people have its astounding to me that any real work gets done. I sat in on a 5+ hour meeting my first week there. What could possibly be so important to talk about for 5 hours? The answer is nothing. I could hear the stress in everyones voice, I could tell that my manager was being overworked, nobody seemed to be enjoying themselves. They would just sit in meetings for hours and hours talking about how everything is awesome and the numbers are great etc. -- lots of red flags and life is short folks. Jobs and money are nice but not if they suck the life out of you.

Depending on what team you get put on, who your manager is etc, you may have a different experience, but in general there is a crushing case load and high stress and low pay. No one can keep up with the volume of work, which causes tons of mistakes to clients and tons of complaints coming in your phone and inbox. You'll get yelled at daily, spend tons of time filing complaints, and there is no support to find answers. They promised a structured training class, but there was basically no training. There's an impossible maze of policies and procedures to navigate through, managers don't have answers to the complicated issues that come up all day, you're left for yourself trying skype co workers to find a half way right answer to anything. If you genuinely care about giving good service to clients, you will find this place absolutely frustrating.