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      3.7

      72% would recommend to a friend

      (14,607 total reviews)
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      Sergio P. Ermotti

      84% approve of CEO

      62% positive business outlook

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      3.9

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.8

      Work/Life balance

      3.7

      Culture & values

      3.5

      Compensation and benefits

      3.5

      Career opportunities

      3.3

      Senior management

      UBS has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 14,607 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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      15K reviews
      3.0
      Jan 28, 2015

      Can Be a Great or Horrible Experience

      Senior associate
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      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Progressive approach to infrastructure and software. Many companies are stuck in the past, keeping old systems alive even though they are outdated and problematic. UBS is at least trying to remain current. Or they were when last I was there.

      Cons

      Some amazingly bad middle managers with no regard for employees personal lives. If you get one of them expect to work until at least 7PM every day as well as be on call 24/7. Telecommuting is up to the individual managers are an all to great percentage of them are iron-fisted micro-managers so they do not allow it at all. Their approach to systems and software is at odds with their approach to people. I would not work there again.

      2.0
      Jun 29, 2014

      Great people, but process is king

      Software developer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      All teams I have worked with (IT back office) were full of very good, very nice and helpful people. Many of them were also extremely dedicated, putting in the extra effort to get stuff delivered in the timelines posed by the business. All of my immediate line managers (UBS Directors, so VPs elsewhere) were down-to-earth, pragmatical people. All of them cared for their staff and were trying their hardest to develop them. The whole culture of the company encourages helpful relationships based on trust and respect. However, that is most prevalent between peers and line managers and subordinates, relationships of other kinds are not always so great.

      Cons

      First of all, the processes in place do not help but hinder development. L1 production support can only copy files and click "restart" buttons (and even then they make mistakes far too often), which means that dev teams get woken up in the middle of the night on a regular basis. Release process is excruciatingly painful, because of the aforementioned production support, as devs can't have access to prod. There is no notion of break glass scenarios, and mentioning it is met with immediate refusal. Work-life balance is appalling if one wishes to get promoted. And when that happens the compensation is not nearly enough to cover for the sleepless nights. Business has no idea how IT works and pushes back on any technical changes if they would mean longer delivery times for functional requirements. This leads to tremendous technical debts and poor quality software which is bolted on rather than built. Furthermore, business manages to forget about regulatory requirements and only highlights them at the eleventh hour, causing even more "tactical" solutions to be put in place.

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