UBS On-Campus Interview Experience 2023 Batch

Education: B.E. ECE from Tier 2 college.

UBS visited our campus in the last week of August 2022.

Hiring Process:
1st round - In person test in college labs. There were around 50 questions to be solved in 1 hour or 1 hour 20 mins. Dont remember exactly.
There were 2 questions of DSA - one easy and other moderate. Rest were MCQs from CS fundamentals - Java, OOP, OS and aptitude questions. People having knowledge of Java did well comparatively.

2nd round (Technical Interview) - After 3-4 days the technical interview and HR rounds were scheduled. Technical interview was mostly based on profile/ resume. Some people who mentioned DSA faced DSA oriented questions. Others who had done internships/ projects got questions regarding the techstack they used.

Mine was a generalised discussion since I kept only those skills in my resume which I was confident about. E.g. React, Django, Java, etc. The interviewers covered my projects since I had highlighted them in my introduction and CV from difference in architecture of backend frameworks, client side vs server side rendering, how did you store images in your project ( my ans was cloudinery), how is jsx compiled, apis vs web services etc. Other questions were related to Java OOPs - Inheritance, answering the pieces of code on a piece of paper given by the interviewer and lastly about B+ trees and indexing and how they were used in my projects.

The interview lasted for an hour. I also mentioned about my interest in Finance and also I had invested in equity in college days. These things impressed the interviewers apart from my projects.

3rd Round (HR round) - 5 mins discussion on commonly asked questions like what's your family background, where would you like to see in 5 years, are you interested in higher studies.

Verdict: Selected

Tips :

1. Show your interest in Financial sector or atleast willingness to explore and learn.
2. Regarding higher studies answer should be 'No' or neutral like 'it depends if opportunity and need arises' since companies want to invest in loyal candidates.
3. Study difference in Cpp and Java OOP concepts. There are many and are contrasting. So if you have C++ knowledge and answer based on that, you might go wrong.
4. For Java and OOPs, Kunal Kushwaha's playlist is more than enough (intial 6-8 videos covering Java and OOPs).

All the best! Just be honest and confident.