UBS = No Blacks Allowed? Out of 425 MDs in New York, only 2 MDs are black and 0 in Investment Banking (Linkedin Analysis)

Search of 425 Linkedin Managing Directors shows only 2 Blacks and 0 in Investment Banking.

Linked Search Filters: Works at UBS, Title: Managing Director, Location: New York, United States

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I mean, I've experienced racism working at the firm. Sometimes its obvious, sometimes its not. This is Trumps America where outright racism can be disguised by using the word merit.

 

That's a blatant lie, 1. Trump isn't in office yet, so still in Biden's (his handlers) America that the "outright racism" you experienced occurred. 2. If you experienced even a sliver of "outright racism" in corporate America today, you would have gone to Biden's EEOC and been awarded millions of dollars in a lawsuit, and we all would've had to read about it on the front page of the WSJ. Nice try Jussie Smollett Jr. 

 
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The JussieSmolletification,  of the Western World needs to stop. 

Since the Smith-Mund Modernization Act passed... allowing media to perpetually propogate lies and propoganda to the public without legal or punitive responsibility... the entire left has become a cult of misinformed chronic victimhood mentality. It must come to an end.

Trumps is nothing but a "last year in office" JF Kennedy clone. He was literally best friends with JFK Jr and whe espouses the Kennedy Democrat stance on nearly all issues other than economics (Kennedy didnt have to deal with China) which is why Tim Kennedy and RFK both have his back in many areas.  
Here are some Facts:

1: black real income rose more under a Trumps presidency than any president prior... including Lincoln and Obama. 
2: Trump had the lowest unemeployment rate and lowest family poverty rate of any president in over 60 years. 
3 Forbes ran polls on billionaires political aligment for each presidential election.. every single time the polls ran... democrat candidates got higher approval rates from billionaires and likewise recieved more funding from billionaires than Trump. 

The fact you think this man is an "alt right" race-centric fascist responsible for you not doing well in life  is proof positive of how far the left has fallen into disillusion. 

A good example of the chronic leaning of misinformed victimhood cult mentality increasinly known as JussieSmolletification lies with the Facials Scar Job Interview Expirement aka

Bobby the Baboon - Leader of the Next Great Market Chimpout
 
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Yeah but in basketball there are metrics (height, hops, shooting percentage)

In banking its all about I like you or don't like you

 

If you actually believe that its ALL about popularity then you are lookin outward instead of inward and are unfortunatelt going to destine yourself to make excuses and stay poor. 
Essentially your excuse for not rising through the ranks is that you dont have to work hard in most professions you just need to "rub" someone the right way. Therein lies your problem. This is money.  Clients and employers want skilled, knowledgeable and likeable people responsible for their money.   If you lack skills, experience and knowledge clients will more than likely not want to deal with you. Likewise if you have a poor character they also more than likely not want to deal with you. Youre lack of actual merit and lack of social skills and unbiased life experience matched with a quick jump to racebaiting every situation as shown in posts like this are whats holding you back, not the color of your skin.

Nobody cares if your black white or yellow in Trumps America as long as you generate profits and become invaluable to your companies clients and your employers. There are plenty of 1st generation asian American latino Americans and middle eastern American people represented in these fields due entirely to their merit and hard working mentality. Most of them would not be widely considered popular with clients and wouldnt have jobs based on how you think things work.. contrary to your belief.. they rise up specifically though merit and hard work.

Trumps America focuses on Equality of Opportunity also known as Greek meritocracy, which reinforces prosperity  via consistency with the laws of nature... as opposed to DEI racial equity via Affirmative Action, which requires tribalistic and racist enforcement  through the barrell of a government gun to impose Equality of Outcome, which is literally  a founding premise of cult-ural marxism. Marxism in all of its forms are hinged on a utopian, non-realistic representation of human nature and Marxism as a whole denies the fundamental and often Darwininian laws of nature that can be easily studied in the most basic of chimp heirarchy.

In Trumps America.. "It doesn't matter if its a black cat or white cat...so long as the cat catches mice". 

Bobby the Baboon - Leader of the Next Great Market Chimpout
 
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Blank slatism has been nothing but a disease to the world. Hopefully the egalitarian lie will finally be put to rest in the coming decade(s), though either way it’ll burn itself out eventually.

 

Im sure the blacks they interviewed weren't the right "culture" fit

 
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No way they pass the 80% Rule with these numbers:

There isn’t a single fixed percentage used to prove bias in hiring, but several statistical methods are commonly applied to detect potential discrimination. The most widely used standard is the "80% Rule" (or Four-Fifths Rule) established by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

The 80% Rule (Four-Fifths Rule):

  • This guideline states that if the selection rate for a particular racial, ethnic, or gender group is less than 80% (or four-fifths) of the selection rate of the group with the highest selection rate, it may indicate adverse impact or potential discrimination.
 

Racism in corporate America senior levels? Say it ain't so. Every firm struggles in this at the senior level, this is why we are so aggressive in hiring through diversity pipelines at junior levels. Remember that current MD's are people who were hired as juniors at least a decade+ ago where there wasn't as much diverse talent out there. That along with people leaving there are very few black MD's around broader Wall Street. There are a lot of problems with UBS in specific, this isn't one of them.

 

Diversity programs have existed for decades. Even if let in temporarily, all the diversity just gets pushed out because the main decisionmakers remain white men and relate better to white male juniors.

 

Could be or could not. Don't think it matters anymore, the 2024 election and the affirmative action ruling is the death knell of DEI policies. Tbh, I don't really care the color of your skin or your gender, as long as you can do the work and are coachable as an analyst. Have had diverse analyst better than non-diverse ones and vice-versa. 

 

Somehow companies still think, simply letting in "diverse" (upper-middle class diverse) talent thats is levels elow their non-diverse peers will help them in the long run. If you want to be the "good company" invest in fucking education. Offer opportunities to the poor black people in new york. Offer workshops at the schools in poor districts. The "diverse" people going to university arent even the people this is about.

 
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Future_Chad

Most the UBS are Italian and French, or Franco-German! Not sure if they pass as white!

Correct, Italians are neither aesthetically, socioeconomically, vertically or technologically white. However, Franco-Germans are of Germanic lineage, which is a "cousin" ethnicity to Teutonic Anglo-Saxons, which is a subset of the esteemed WASP species. French, although distinct from the prestigious WASP taxonomy, are an equal species to us as they have had similar "civilization" or "empire" in days past, namely military achievements, colonial conquests and contributions to technology, art, culture, architecture and civilization on par with the British Empire.

 

I would like to think most Americans dislike outright racism, which is what the numbers show

 

I wanted to try and network with someone at the firm like me, and figured there had to be at least one black MD in banking in New York. I was shcoked and saddened that there wasn't and figured I had to share.

 
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Constantly instructed that diversity is our greatest strength, meanwhile people instinctively divide themselves between ethnic patronage networks, and feel distress when unable to do so. I wonder how much longer until the social engineering crumbles under its own stupidity in the face of basic human nature.

 

Oh, so you think you cant network with MD´s that went to your school and are white? Ok, you are the solution to racism.

 
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I am. In Trump's America, I am hopeful we will no longer have to deal with less qualified diversity hires such as yourself.

 

I am a young White man in NYC who went to a top college and voted for Trump. What are you going to do about it? I am also, as a White man, going to speak out about the problems of DEI programs. What are you going to do about it? You're not going to make me be quiet about it like saying "but...but ur White" like it's some kind of auto-win.

Seriously, what are you going to do about it? Call me some names on the internet? Sticks and stones.

 

& by everyone being on the wrong end of it at least once. Sucks to be shafted in the application stage with 3 M&A internships, while some upper-class white girl gets in after doing audit.

 

I have seen their offices before, it's a bit hard to believe. There were several people of color working there in senior roles and I even met some of them in meetings.  Of course I don't know how many had MD titles in an entire city.

It's not like LI is a full and accurate data set.

 

"I have a black friend"

There are very few in the UBS IB ranks even at junior levels and they all become extinct way before reaching MD

 
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Only thing worse than being an openly racist organization is the world knowing you are an openly racist organization.

Thanks for sharing… I won’t do bussiness with them any time soon

 

Here's a question that I found makes DEI promoters pretty uncomfortable and insecure:

The debate on DEI is framed about two options. Either 1) we give artificial numbers to designated groups, like more women, more LGBT, more Black people, more whatever, or 2) we just evaluate people on their merits and ability for the job.

My viewpoint was usually aligned with Option 2, but given that every ethnic and demographic group is allowed to exhibit its own form of nepotism, i.e. Black businessmen help out other Black businessmen, Indian businessmen help out other Indian businessmen, etc., except that White men are told that they are not allowed to do this and must be objective, that opens up Option 3: I'm just going to hire more White guys since that's what everyone else seems to be doing with their own personal demographic

Is there a compelling reason why I shouldn't? My original plan was Option 2, just evaluate people on their performance and potential, but if everyone else is able to do ethnic nepotism, is there a valid reason why I shouldn't?

Either way though, one thing we need to bring back is freedom of association which by definition also means the right to exclude. If I had a company, I'd hire people who can make me a lot of money, period, but it's also really none of your business how I go about hiring them. If I want to hire my friends who I've worked with before, and they all happen to be of one demographic, I should be allowed to do that. Some of you are treating access to White men like it's a human right on the level of freedom of speech. You do not have a basic human right for me to hire you for a company, sorry.

 

You don't seem to have gotten the memo: calling "racist" anything you disagree with is no longer a valid argument.

Cry and whine about it.

Also, OP's thread is literally about how he couldn't reach out to a Black MD because OP is himself Black, i.e. engage in ethnic nepotism - precisely the tribal behavior described by the comment you replied to.

 

How about not doing DEI at all and simply investing some money to actually offer infrmation, education and perspective to the people in the poorer districts? None of the people actually needing help in the form of DEI are benefitting from it like that. Its the upper-class or upper-middle-class minorities and women that have all the opportunities like going to university anyways. 

My university for example, has a shocking distribution. We have so much migration and yet all people in my major are White or Asian, With Asians being significantly overrepresented compared to other minorities. So why dont ofer additional information and education, to even get these people to universities?

 

It’s incredibly difficult to take your claims regarding “racism” seriously, when clearly you have no qualms over trying to leverage your own racial tribalism to get hired —logically at the expense of someone else— to then turn around someday as an executive and propagate the same behaviours you’re crying about now, yet actively seek to benefit from anyways.

Ethnocentrism for me, but racist for thee.

 

watching you people sperg out has been one of life's great pleasures these last couple of months

"If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything" - Winston Churchill | "It's a testament to the sheer belligerence of the profession that people would rather argue about the 'risk-adjusted returns' of using inferior tooth cleaning methods." - kellycriterion
 

Not sure why you bother.  Anyone who would be concerned by this, doesn't need the wake up call, and this is WSO, where most users are only here to cosplay their bigoted fantasies about returning to a time when minorities stepped off the sidewalk to let them pass.

Sorry, I meant to say, where a "merit based system" figures out who is required to get out of the way.  As long as the people who end up doffing their hats aren't white, of course, then the meritocracy is obviously being distorted by woke managers

 

Ozymandia

Not sure why you bother.  Anyone who would be concerned by this, doesn't need the wake up call, and this is WSO, where most users are only here to cosplay their bigoted fantasies about returning to a time when minorities stepped off the sidewalk to let them pass.

Sorry, I meant to say, where a "merit based system" figures out who is required to get out of the way.  As long as the people who end up doffing their hats aren't white, of course, then the meritocracy is obviously being distorted by woke managers

The message that Trump sent is that diversity should not be a factor in hiring decisions.  MAGA people inferred from the message that we can hire whoever the fuck we want, which likely means that all non white people get screwed.  Trump's cabinet nominees are 91% white.  There is one black guy and one hispanic woman.  

 

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