UBS·Software Engineer

UBS Software Engineer interview experience

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London, EnglandPosted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview process varied a lot by round, and it started with a pretty substantial multiple-choice test.

In the first round, I had 50 questions in 54 minutes that mixed frontend topics and Java-related material—things like JavaScript and CSS, HTML, AJAX, HTTP and REST, plus Java, threading, collections, and Maven. The questions weren’t just theory; they felt like coding-style checks where I needed to understand the code and choose the right completion.

Round two was a longer technical interview with a manager and a team lead—about an hour—where they went deeper on performance, algorithms, memory management, and threading in Java. Round three was another technical interview with a different team

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