Is UBS Investment Bank Good? Why reading WSO makes me think they are pretty bad

Why are you talking solely about the tech team when the question is about all of UBS? UBS just like most firms has good and bad groups, it just so happens at UBS there is a very wide discrepancy between the good and bad groups with many meh groups in between. UBS tech is by far the weakest tech group in any of the other firms around it. However, UBS has a great sponsor and LevFin presence, as well as a good overall industrial franchise, and okay ones in some other coverage areas. The view of UBS in this forum is too dominated by those in the single worst team in the bank in tech and it reflects both how bad the group is that people are this mad and the wide discrepancy in group quality. Everyone agrees with you and the other tech team juniors that the tech team sucks. I also agree that the broader merger hasn't gone to expectations but it's not fair to say culture and deal flow everywhere is bad mostly because there are indeed various groups that have increased market share. 

I think the firm's best group is sponsors, regularly been in the top 10 in sponsor fees including in this down year. LevFin also mostly does sponsor-backed stuff, really strong LBO, and sponsors LevFin business much weaker corporate one. Industrials also had a great year, but harder to judge it as a lot of it came from deals originated by CS seniors, but would say it's also a very solid group. Other groups aren't as strong but have good MDs here and there, Consumer and HC in particular have grown from YoY albeit it still not being a good overall group merely decent. Those groups are also continuously being built out with new hires who are at least somewhat working. 

Think what you're saying is true for pre-merger though, The CS merger meant some groups had more good MDs move over than others mostly because there was only so much guaranteed comp to give out. UBS' main issue is that just some of their coverage groups in huge industries in the Americas are shit, it prob has the worst tech team of any notable bank and tech is the largest sector. The FIG team just lost a whole sub-vertical and hasn't had any of the MDs replaced, and the bank does not do Energy banking, two of the other largest 5 sectors in America. Healthcare, another large sector, is still not there and is being actively grown with hiring going on. At least the HC team right now is better than before, but that's only because the bank had basically no deal flow in HC before. 

Overall though; weak bank for corporate things very broadly, the bank is very sponsor-heavy and bank performance is going to ride on Sponsors' activity, LevFin activity, and to a smaller extent industrial activity as that is the only coverage group that is seemingly competitive on corporate things for larger caps.