Primary Risk Industrial Placement applicants have rated the interview process at UBS with 2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 62.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Primary Risk Industrial Placement roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at UBS overall takes an average of 26 days.
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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at UBS (London, England) in Feb 2016
Interview
After the online application and an online maths test(same as all online tests, nothing tricky), invited to a take a phone interview, really nice interviewer, mainly competency based, and classic questions like, why UBS, why risk etc.
Invited to take part in an assessment centre the next day(got a weeks notice until assessment centre). Later found out that you only get invited to the AC if at least 3 heads of desks want to interview you!
Assessment centre was actually a good day, started with an SHL 20 in 20 numerical test (same as other companies), then have to give an individual presentation to one assessor. Next comes 2 interviews(25 min each), one competency and one commercial, however both included both types of questions because you are talking to different people from different desks. Note the interviews can be with 1-3 assessors. Then we have a break where if any other assessors want to see you, you have an informal chat with them for 10 mins.
Next and finally comes the group exercise, all 9 candidates took part in a group discussion while all 8 assessors watched over us.
Got called within 24 hours with a job offer to start in July and couldn't be happier.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A time a team did not work well/ a time a team worked perfectly?
whats market risk? Credit Risk?
What interests you about risk?
Biggest problem facing banking today in your opinion?
(No maths questions... but some other candidates got asked a few)