UBS reviews

3.7

72% would recommend to a friend

(14,563 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 14,563 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 Finanzen industry (3.7 stars).

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15K reviews
2.0
Oct 27, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Working from home option (in pre-pandemic times) - good work/life balance

Cons

-toxic working environment - people working in low cost locations are perceived as B level employees - difficulties to communicate with other teams - low possibilities of getting a promotion

1.0
Oct 13, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- If you leave after a year, you can come back a year later and earn twice as much - Learn about newest innovations within the financial services industry - Remote working

Cons

- Loyalty is not rewarded - No opportunities to get promoted - Nepotism - People on maternal leave for 5 years can get promoted but you won't - Retention rate is poor due to the above (20%)

2.0
Jun 4, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Colleagues are nice but manager could be horrible. Less political as majority getting no increment and pathetic bonus anyway.

Cons

1) No Increment. Many in group functions (previously known as Corporate Centre) has no increment. Management will give you different excuses such as: a) It's your first 2 years , very rare for someone in first 2 years have increment despite market and industry data supported at least some adjustment, they will just ignore the ground. b) They will also give reason saying you are not at the junior end of the rank so no increment. Increment is giving to people at the bottom end of the band or people outside the band. 2) Pathetic bonus - No matter how good you are, bonus is less than 1.5 months and some even less than 1 month. When they give you bonus >1 month, please expect to slave yourself and management will emphasize they are doing so much to fight for this good bonus for you and you need to do 2 - 3 persons job just to make it count. 3) Poor people in Singapore always being compared with low cost location like India. They always bring up topic that India can do the jobs in Singapore and people in Singapore is high cost and need to work double, triple hard. But they never look at SG vs. HK or SG vs. the other business hub like US, UK , Switzerland from which we are lowest cost location and better corporate tax environment. 4. Many conversion of work pass holders , and fair considerations is just a tick in the box exercise. Look at how many EP holders they hired in last 24 months.

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