IB COO Intern Review

Colleagues were all extremely welcoming. Interns were not treated as juniors or inferior, but very much as equals. Everyone was willing to sit with all the interns and tell us about their job roles/let us shadow them. This was particularly surprising with the more senior staff who were equally willing to spend time with us despite busy schedules.

All staff, including management and supervisors, were extremely supportive and offered constant guidance if it was needed. All tasks were fully explained and the time was taken to make sure we knew what we were doing and line managers were happy to help if we came back with further questions.

Depends, a lot of my time was spent in meetings that were self-organized, which kept me busy. If you are proactive and seek out opportunities/tasks there will be lots to do. If not, you may find yourself with less to do in terms of actual tasks. So it is very self dependent.

Due to lacking a lot of regulatory requirements, it was hard to be given much responsibility. It was also such a short time period that managers were hesitant to give me tasks that had lots of responsibility as they also would've taken up a lot more time to complete. But I was in charge of a few small projects.

It is a completely different type of learning. It has massively helped to expand on my degree knowledge as a lot of these skills cannot be learnt in a classroom. UBS also offers the online university which has multiple courses on almost any topic which are extremely helpful in helping to develop life long skills.

Culture is pushed strongly from UBS. In particular integrity, collaboration and challenge. Because of this it is a very welcoming and friendly environment to be in. Everyone is willing to speak to everyone and this often helps the work easier due to the collaboration. It is a nice, friendly place to work - especially as an intern.

Poorly. As a smaller group of interns, it was often felt that the larger groups were prioritized over us. Our rotations were not organized until one of the last weeks which was in line with our final project that changed a couple of weeks before it took place. HR constantly needed to be chased to find out any information.

UBS treats a lot of the interns like graduates as it is expected that a lot of them will return as grads and remain within UBS for the foreseeable future. Because of this there are lots of courses, both online and in person, throughout the course of the year that can be taken to aid personal training and development.

UBS is a great place to work, especially as a first job. This is partly because of the collaborative culture over the more cut throat culture that is present in a lot of the American banks. All the other interns get on well and we are treated as equals, so future employment prospects are very appealing.

Although you would mix with the interns in the same team/department as you, you would very rarely see interns in other departments. There were minimal socials, internally or externally. Although everyone was polite and friendly they would not necessarily seek out the other interns that weren't in their immediate circle.

The city of London has and always will be an extremely expensive area to live in. A lot of the interns commute in from else where due to the high costs of living, but because of the tubes this is pretty easy. Socializing is similarly expensive, but again is to be expected for London.