UBS London IBD: Groups with brutal hours/bad culture?
Hi all,
Few questions about UBS IBD London.
1) Are there any groups in London that are brutal in terms of hours/bad culture? Particularly curious about consumer, TMT, real estate, industrials, M&A, and DCM/ECM.
2) Anyone know anything about the private financing group (private capital markets?) Seems to be a very new group with not much information available.
3) Other than TMT, FIG, and M&A, are there any other decent/solid groups?
4) How are the off-cycle to FT conversion rates? Any tips to boost conversion chances would be very much appreciated.
Thanks!
Best team TMT but terrible culture
Thank you! That sure is a shame.
There are some previous threads that answer (some of) your questions.
In terms of groups, UBS TMT and Consumer are notoriously sweaty. Know someone in Consumer who frequently stays late, working on a lot of pitches. That being said, it is also one of the better groups, next to TMT. Deal sizes in Consumer vary a lot, have recently seen between 100m-10bn.
Team culture at Consumer (and possibly UBS-wide) seems to be quite good though
Thanks! When you say late, how late are you referring to? Also, do you know anything about M&A or industrials?
Don't know about those two groups. With late I mean that 80+ hour work weeks are the norm and there are frequent exceptions to 90-100h.
Think LevFin culture is quite good and so are the hours, friend of mine regularly finished at 9-10pm, except during 1-2 deals when he got absolutely murdered
Interesting. That's not bad at all. I would have thought LevFin would be brutal. Thanks!
GIG is pretty sweaty
Right. Are you referring to all the teams under GIG (industrials, nat resources, and P&U) or only some. How sweaty is pretty sweaty?
All are sweaty, as an analyst you aren’t split across any vertical. I know a girl there who gets crushed although she’s a rockstar
FIG and ECM are top at UBS, but all groups are sweaty (DCM only they dont do anything, 70h weeks max)
100% makes sense. Not too interested in FIG and ECM unfortunately though. DCM seems cool though exits are scary. Thanks!
Bump. Anyone knows which are the groups with bad deal flow?
Bump. Anything?
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