rating for UBS AG

Mediocre posted on 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 some C#/.Net. Direction being driven from "on high" so don't expect much influence as a foot soldier. Unless you are senior, you won't get much of a say. Lots of legacy old systems with nasty code and people who don't seem to understand refactoring, instead start from scratch (usually the same people who messed it up before).

There are some good clued up business people here - work for them not IT if you want to have a good time and act in the best interests of the company. A small handful of good technical people if you can find them but poor management.

Bonuses can be pretty decent (15%-20%) for IT staff, even at low levels.

Overall, mediocre as far as the work environment goes, par for the course in terms of investment banks.

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