Global Markets summer intern Review

Item: Global Markets summer intern at UBS
Rating: 5
Author: Anonymous

at UBS

Internship (1 Month+)

Banking

London

Review Submitted: August 2021

Overall Rating

5 /5

The Overall Rating is the average of all the ratings given in each category. We take those individual ratings and combine them into one final score!

5/5 - Overview of Role

5/5 - Skills Development

5/5 - Support and Guidance

5/5 - Company Culture

5/5 - Overall Experience

5/5 - Future Career Prospects

Overview of Role

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

- Getting to know the business and the role
- Get up to speed with the financial markets and the news
- Work out presentations and projects
- Weekly sessions to hear from senior people and to learn about other divisions

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

- As the role is in a heavily regulated environment it is not feasible to get much responsibility during the internship without passing the required regulatory exams

Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was

5/5

Skills Development

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

- Largely developed and improved my interpersonal skills by networking in a virtual environment
- Made use of academic knowledge in a practical context
- Many opportunities to learn new skills given large online learning material from UBS

How would you rate the training provided during your experience?

5/5

How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?

5/5

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

Support and Guidance

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

- the support and guidance was incredibly big and very genuine
- everyone tried to make time to explain the main concepts and answer any questions one might have

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

5/5

How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?

5/5

Company Culture

What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?

- very friendly and genuinely nice culture and atmosphere
- right balance between working efficiently and hard and having regular chats about other topics outside of work

How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

5/5

How would you rate the social opportunities?

5/5

How would you rate the diversity initiatives?

5/5

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

5/5

Overall Experience

To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?

- Enjoyed every bit of it (even though it was virtual due to COVID)
- Perfect combination of challenging environment, but also very accommodative
- Great opportunity with the rotational structure to get to know different aspects within Global Markets
- Right mix of networking and getting to know people, project work and daily tasks