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UBS interview questions

22 questions researched across 1 UBS seat in Investment Bank. Below are 12 of them.

Seats we researched

  • Summer AnalystInvestment Bank · intern · 20 min

12 UBS interview questions

  1. Walk me through the WACC formula. Where do the cost of debt and the cost of equity actually come from?

  2. Tell me about a time you made a risky decision.

  3. Tell me about a time you ran into challenges working in a team.

  4. Why do you want to work in this office's city in particular?

  5. What is your career plan for the next five years?

  6. How would you value a European bank, and why not a DCF?

  7. Walk me through an accretion/dilution analysis.

  8. Tell me about a time you worked with someone very different from you.

  9. A company has an equity value of eight hundred, three hundred of debt, fifty of preferred stock and one hundred of cash. What is its enterprise value?

  10. In a DCF, how do you choose between the perpetuity growth method and an exit multiple for the terminal value, and how would you sanity-check one against the other?

  11. Tell me about a company or a piece of news you find interesting right now.

  12. Your client is thinking about acquiring a competitor. What would you look at to decide whether the deal makes sense?

What a strong answer does

The questions above fall into 4 kinds. What a strong answer does differs by kind, not by question.

Technical5 of 12 above
State the intuition first; walk through the mechanics; make assumptions explicit; test a risk or edge case; connect the answer to the role.
Behavioral5 of 12 above
Lead with the claim and context; isolate your personal action and decision; explain the trade-off; quantify the result; finish with what you learned and changed.
Market1 of 12 above
State a view; support it with evidence and a catalyst; explain valuation or transmission; give the strongest countercase; name the risk that would change your mind.
Case1 of 12 above
Clarify the objective; build a mutually exclusive structure; prioritize the highest-value branch; analyze with evidence; synthesize a recommendation, risks, and next step.

10 more UBS questions

The rest of the bank — 22 in total — is asked by the interviewer during practice, so you meet them the way you would on the day rather than reading them first.

Practise UBS questions

How these questions were researched

Every question carries a provenance grade. Some were reported by candidates who sat the round, some come from the firm’s own published guidance or a source that trains for it, and the rest are written to match how this firm asks. Each seat is studied on its own — the round it actually runs, the order it runs it in, and what it is listening for. A UBS round is not a generic behavioural screen, and practising one as the other is how people walk in unprepared.

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