Company culture has changed - Software Engineer UBS Employee Review

2.0
Mar 24, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Colleagues at my level are mostly quite cool and chill. - The office can look quite pretty, and there's a small selection of coffee and biscuits. - They have an internal mobility portal for applying to other roles within the company.

Cons

- Management has taken on a more top-down, commanding approach. They want you to do something, and you just have to get it done. - Constantly cutting team budgets, and without reducing workload. Recently, team budget has been allocated based on how much AI you can cram into products. - Long term external employees suddenly getting let go with no one to replace them. - Middle management doesn't show a lot of interest in employees. Lack of communication to employees, with concerns left unaddressed. - Management imposed a large scale transition of development environments into a less functional environment that was missing key development features in order to cut costs.

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5.0
Jun 29, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Supportive and collaborative team environment.

Cons

Career progression may depend on team structure and available headcount.

3.0
Jun 28, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good Learning opportunities, Tech savvy compared to other banking / fintech companies

Cons

Too much offshore, low cost resource strategies, Gap between functional & IT resources, CS merger favored many UBS employees and massive layoffs post UBS - CS merger. Hardly any bonus or pay increments.

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