Global Markets Summer Analyst Review
at UBS
Internship (1 Month+)
Banking
London
Review Submitted: July 2025
Overall Rating
4.6 /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
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Overview of Role
4.5/5
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Skills Development
4/5
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Support and Guidance
4.5/5
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Company Culture
5/5
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Overall Experience
5/5
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Future Career Prospects
Overview of Role
Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
Intern within the quantitative investment strategies team. My day to day consists of building Python scripts for implementing and backtesting strategies, creating new tools to automate internal processes and analysing existing strategies to monitor their performance.
Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
Yes, all the projects I was working on where real tools for the team which would be eventually be put into production by the relevant team groups
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?
My coding skills have improved significantly. My understanding of investment strategies and financial instruments was close to null before starting and has developed very quickly
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?
3/5
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?
It was a balance of independent work and learning from teaching given by the team. However every time I had a question they would be available to answer it
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
Company Culture
What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
Everyone was nice individually and the overall vibe in the teams was positive and constructive
How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
5/5
How would you rate the social opportunities?
4/5
How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
5/5
How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
4/5
Overall Experience
To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
I really enjoyed my placement as I was looking for an opportunity to improve my coding skills and learn about systematic strategies and the teams provided a good platform to do so
Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
5/5
Please rate how your experience met your expectations
5/5
Future Career Prospects
Please rate the future employment prospects at UBS
5/5
Recommendations & Advice
Would you recommend UBS to a friend?
Yes
What advice would you give to others applying to UBS
Research which teams you are most interested in and find out exactly what they do and what skillsets you would develop if you joined that specific team
