False Promises and no human touch - Associate Director UBS Employee Review

1.0
Dec 26, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

The benefits, PTO Balance and 401 K contribution are overall good. That is about it!

Cons

If you get stuck with a bad manager that is not flexible you may not be allowed to use some of the company benefits that are "promised and sold" at the interview (such as the hybrid schedule) and you have to come in 5 days a week like a little child even if there is no one around . I would often come to the office where I was alone for most of the day in the entire floor and not one person would walk by so the hybrid thing works great for some and for others it doesn't its ridiculous! If you come from a modern company their culture will shock you, a lot of the upper management individuals are older gentleman/generation who have a very old mentality and inadequate ways of conducting work so that sucks for the newer generations. HR is basically a robot machine, and you can't talk to a person never there is basically zero human touch. Lastly, there are a lot of rude & grumpy employees (specially the older ones) and overall the culture of rudeness is totally normalized & ignored, kind of toxic.

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