Good people, but poorly performing bank - Quantitative Analyst UBS Employee Review

3.0
Oct 25, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Enjoyed working with all the people. As collaborative as budgets could allow. I was givewn a lot of flexibility by the head of trading to develop my models without distraction. I was also given the unofficial ability to direct IT to implement my models very quickly and efficiently for use in production.

Cons

Not enough investment in technology. Outsourcing everything and contracting out the technology made it hard to accomplish some tasks that would otherwise be relatively easy to get done - this was especially true with regards to data/speed of data retrieval.

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UBS Response
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Thank you for your review and for raising your concerns.

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