Market Risk Summer Intern Review

by UBS

Best Student Employer

Rating

4.1/5
  • Skills
    4.5
  • Responsibilities
    3.0
  • Support & Guidance
    4.0
  • Culture
    4.0
  • Your Impressions
    4.3

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.

    • Helping analyse the key risks on the credit flow desk - looking at bonds, loans, CDS etc. Attend daily calls to boost understanding. Undertook a project - deep dive of EM countries.

    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?

    • Learnt new skills in terms of all risk measures and platforms used. Learnt how to use Bloomberg terminal. Developed soft skills like communication, teamwork etc

  • How would you rate the training provided during your experience?

    • 4/5
  • How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?

    • 4/5
  • How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?

    • 5/5
  • Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development

    • 5/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

    • I was given responsibility of some nominal day to day tasks such as the EoD report, and sending a group of traders a limit email daily.

  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was

    • 3/5

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?

    • A lot of support from anyone I asked. Valuable in allowing me to develop understanding

  • How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?

    • 4/5
  • How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?

    • 4/5

    Culture

  • 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?

    • Diverse. Very helpful. Respectful

  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

    • 4/5
  • How would you rate the social opportunities?

    • 4/5
  • How would you rate the diversity initiatives?

    • 4/5
  • How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?

    • 4/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?

    • I enjoyed it a lot. Was able to learn a lot and connect with lots of new people

  • Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship

    • 4/5
  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations

    • 4/5
  • Please rate the future employment prospects at UBS

    • 5/5
  • 7. Would you recommend UBS to a friend?

    • Yes

  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to UBS

    • Be curious. Put in maximum effort and go above and beyond what’s required

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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Investment Banking, Insurance & Risk Management

London

August 2024

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