Horrible culture - IT Business Analyst UBS Employee Review

2.0
3 Dec 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Good salary & benefits Good experience Lots of interesting work New dedicated building in the City

Cons

I believe I got unlucky with the team at UBS. The manager and 90% of other senior people and BAs were originally from India (I was in a Front Office IT BA role in London though). The culture felt drastically different to most of other Financial Services firm in the City I worked at. Overwork, understaffing, burnout, constant attacks from management, army-like bullying are the norm. The head of the IT department came from the trading desk and he brought the cut-throat competitive desk culture into IT, where it's very harmful (I doubt it can be helpful in any business really). More of it, this place will attempt to drain all of life out of you via giving you 5 times more than you can handle. This will to make you so weak, that they can start changing your very personality. The management likes meek, obedient workers who never say No to anything, who never challenge things. Staying below the radar and only thinking about your own political interests was the only viable strategy to survive and to avoid attacks. When I felt I started becoming part of the system, I left.

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