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UBS AG
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- type of organization: public
- size: colossal (over 10,000 people)
- website: www.ubs.com
- development offices: unknown
UBS provides global financial services including underwriting, financing, and asset management.
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Mediocre
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August 18, 2007
Agree with the other post - there is a lot of big bank syndrome here.
Hope you like filling out lots of request tickets - you'll be doing a lot of that.Promotion prospects are poor - get as much rank as you can moving in, once inside it's very slow to progress, not a meritocracy despite what they claim.Architecturally, moving in an Enterprisey direction - lots of messaging and large scale systems but smaller work there too. Primarily Java, some C++ and more... -
big bank syndrome
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May 23, 2007
I worked at another tier-1 Investment Bank's front office IT before I joined UBS's Hong Kong office. My guess from these experiences is that most big banks are the same : they pay well, they do Java and C++, and they'll explore anything new as long as it can be learned by your counterpart in India.
The work is not creative. It's routine. Though big banks love to give the impression that they're "cutting-edge", what that actually means is that more...