Company with no direction - Anonymous employee UBS Employee Review

2.0
Apr 8, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some smart upper middle managers.

Cons

Departments are deeply siloed. There is no desire to work on projects that are good for the firm as a whole. Departments only care about themselves -- very WITFM attitudes. This attitude extends to most (but not all) individuals in the firm as well.

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Cons

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