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      Primary Risk Industrial Placement Interview

      21 Feb 2016
      Anonymous employee
      London, England
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at UBS (London, England) in Feb 2016

      Interview

      After the online application and an online maths test(same as all online tests, nothing tricky), invited to a take a phone interview, really nice interviewer, mainly competency based, and classic questions like, why UBS, why risk etc. Invited to take part in an assessment centre the next day(got a weeks notice until assessment centre). Later found out that you only get invited to the AC if at least 3 heads of desks want to interview you! Assessment centre was actually a good day, started with an SHL 20 in 20 numerical test (same as other companies), then have to give an individual presentation to one assessor. Next comes 2 interviews(25 min each), one competency and one commercial, however both included both types of questions because you are talking to different people from different desks. Note the interviews can be with 1-3 assessors. Then we have a break where if any other assessors want to see you, you have an informal chat with them for 10 mins. Next and finally comes the group exercise, all 9 candidates took part in a group discussion while all 8 assessors watched over us. Got called within 24 hours with a job offer to start in July and couldn't be happier.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      A time a team did not work well/ a time a team worked perfectly? whats market risk? Credit Risk? What interests you about risk? Biggest problem facing banking today in your opinion? (No maths questions... but some other candidates got asked a few)
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