Failed to keep up with the market - Software Engineer UBS Employee Review

3.0
Aug 15, 2022
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Pros

Interesting projects (if you're lucky, though) Relatively new tech stack on the Frontend Corporate environment, not much stress (easy to "quite quit") Might be a good place if you into the "boaring" job with not much room/need for creativity.

Cons

The promotion process is a corporate hell-swamp that could take years. There are hard quotas and limits, set by top management, on everything starting on performance scores and ending up with the number of people that would be "allowed" to be on a shortlist, which does not guarantee anything. It's faster to leave the company for a year and come back to a higher position than to get promoted. The compensation is a joke now as it has fallen behind the market, which makes it even worst in combination with the capped amounts for the positions. Yearly salary gwowth at roughly 2% no matter how hard you've been grinding. All somewhat decent specialists are leaving the company within a year, once they figure out what a swamp it is. You're lucky if you get a project that gets some "visibility" to the top management otherwise you have zero chance to be "noticed" Crappy VDI solution (and the idea as a whole) is the shittiest thing that could have been done for the developers experience.

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Pros

Strong culture, global brand, good people

Cons

Continuous changes, team dependent upward mobility

5.0
Jul 4, 2026
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Pros

One of the biggest pros is brand value and global credibility. UBS is a top-tier global wealth management and investment bank, so having it on your resume immediately signals experience in a highly structured, regulated, and performance-driven environment. That tends to carry weight across financial services and corporate TA roles. Another major advantage is strong learning exposure. Because UBS operates across wealth management, investment banking, asset management, and corporate functions, employees usually get exposure to complex stakeholder groups, senior leadership, and high-volume, high-stakes hiring environments. For recruiting roles specifically, that often means experience with executive searches, niche skill sets, and global requisitions.

Cons

other factor is workload during restructuring cycles or market downturns. Financial services recruiting is highly market-sensitive, so hiring freezes or sudden ramps are common. That can create uncertainty or shifting priorities in requisition ownership and pipeline planning. From a career perspective, role specialization can sometimes feel narrow. While UBS is large, some employees find they become highly specialized in one function (like wealth management or a specific region), which may require intentional effort to broaden experience.

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