Terrible experience - Software Developer UBS Employee Review

2.0
Mar 4, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

1. Work-life balance if possible 2. Salary can be decent 3. You can meet great colleagues there

Cons

1. Most important thing: as a developer, you spend only a fraction of your time on actual software/model development. Due to a great chaos, you get a lot of ad-hoc tasks, often being purely bureaucratic ones. 2. You can work only via remote desktop, which is laggy, often crashes and is very constrained. For a software developer this was a nightmare, you cannot have access to a lot of standard tools available on the market. 3. You don't get equipment - you get about 10 euro monthy (!!!) as a reward for using your own computer. 4. You spend a lot of your time on meaningless calls. The so-called agile transformation made things even worse. 5. If you want to do machine learning in Poland - this is the terrible idea. You won't have access to most of data, and even those that you can access are stored in archaic systems. Accessing and operating on it is horrible. 6. Raises and bonuses - you probably won't get them too often and not too much.

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Pros

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Cons

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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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