Through the HireVue at UBS? Here is how the superday works by group, who you meet, the questions interviewers ask and how fast you hear back.
Key facts
- Before it: Aon online tests, then a HireVue for those taken forward. In most US accounts the HireVue leads straight to the superday; some groups, such as New York Asset Management, add a phone interview.1,12,8,3,9
- Interviews: New York investment banking ran two behavioral interviews and one technical (Jan 2026). New York Global Markets ran two 30-minute interviews, and Sales and Trading two back to back with traders (2025).2,3,4
- Format: UBS runs final-round interviews virtually or in person. Private Wealth Management used Microsoft Teams and Equity Capital Markets an online superday (2025).1,5,6
- How technical: The investment banking technical interview grilled valuation methods and markets (Jan 2026). Global Markets was conversational, on your resume and markets (2025).2,3
- Timing: A superday about a week after the HireVue for one summer 2027 candidate (Jan 2026); resume screen to superday in three weeks in New York investment banking (2025).9,8
- Hearing back: An offer call two days after a Private Wealth Management superday (2025). In Sales and Trading (2026) the wait after the superday was the slowest part.5,7
UBS asks you to research the firm and your business area beyond the facts and figures, tell stories with outcomes and what you would do differently, and ask questions during the interview.1
What the UBS superday looks like
After the HireVue
In most US accounts the HireVue leads straight to the superday; some groups add a phone interview first, as New York Asset Management did in February 2026. In New York investment banking the whole run from resume screen to superday has taken three weeks.8,3,12,9
The invite
For summer 2027, one candidate's superday came about a week after the HireVue, in January 2026. Private Wealth Management in 2025 added a visit to the firm to meet senior people, then a superday the following week.9,5
On the day
Expect two or three back-to-back interviews. New York investment banking was two behavioral and one technical (Jan 2026), Global Markets two of 30 minutes, and Sales and Trading two with traders (2025). UBS holds them virtually or in person; Private Wealth Management used Microsoft Teams.2,3,4,5,1
What they ask
Investment banking technicals grill valuation methods and markets, including where the premium sits in precedent transactions. Private Wealth Management made anything on your resume fair game, from accounting technicals to campus jobs. Equity Capital Markets dug into past projects and a junior interviewer added brainteasers.2,10,5,6
How to come across
UBS asks you to go beyond facts and figures about the firm and your business area, give examples as stories with the outcome and what you would have done differently, and ask questions to get a conversation going. Global Markets superdays have felt conversational rather than like an interview.1,3
The rounds, by group
- Investment Banking, New York (Jan 2026) 3 interviews
- Two behavioral and one technical, reached through the early insight program.
- Global Markets, New York (Apr 2025) HireVue, 2 x 30 min
- An 8-question HireVue, then a conversational superday on resume and markets.
- Private Wealth Management, New York (Mar 2025) Video, visit, 2 interviews
- Two back-to-back Teams interviews; an offer call two days later.
- Equity Capital Markets, New York (Apr 2025) Online, back to back
- Project deep dives and brainteasers from a junior interviewer.
Each row is one group's process, with the month it ran. UBS says recruiting stages differ slightly by program and region.2,3,5,6,1
Before your superday
- Your HireVue answers, so your superday stories match what UBS already has on record.
- Every line of your resume, from accounting technicals to campus jobs, since anything on it is fair game.
- Three or four stories with an outcome and what you would do differently, as UBS asks.
- The valuation methods, with precedent transactions and the control premium explained cleanly.
- A view on markets and one recent deal UBS worked on.
- For quant and Equity Capital Markets: a few probability puzzles worked out loud.
- Questions for each interviewer, since UBS asks you to start a conversation.
- For a virtual superday: Teams tested, camera at eye level, resume beside the laptop.
The questions
UBS superdays test your resume in depth, your view of markets and, in banking, valuation. Each group weights them differently.2,3,5
- Behavioral: Stories with an outcome and what you would do differently.
- Resume deep dive: Past internships and projects in detail; anything on the page is fair game.
- Technical: Valuation methods, precedent transactions, accounting, bank risks.
- Markets: Your view on markets and recent deals; conversational in Global Markets.
- Brainteaser: Brainteasers in Equity Capital Markets and Sales and Trading superdays.
Which division question you get
- Investment Banking, New York
- Jan 2026 (summer 2027): a superday reached through the early insight program; two behavioral interviews and one technical that grilled valuation methods and markets, including where the premium sits in precedent transactions.2,10
- Global Markets, New York
- Apr 2025 (summer 2026): an 8-question HireVue, then two 30-minute superday interviews, conversational, on your resume and markets.3
- Sales and Trading, New York
- Mar 2025 (summer 2026): online tests, a HireVue of 7 or 8 questions, then back-to-back interviews with two traders and a brainteaser.4,10
- Private Wealth Management, New York
- Mar 2025 (summer 2026): a 10-question one-way video interview, a firm visit, then two back-to-back Teams interviews, one behavioral and firm-based, one resume and technical. Feb 2026 (summer 2027): the range of risks a bank faces and which is greatest.5,10
- Equity Capital Markets, New York
- Apr 2025 (summer 2026): an online superday of back-to-back interviews that dug into past projects; a junior interviewer asked brainteasers.6
- Asset Management, New YorkBest guess
- Expect a market or investment view and why asset management at UBS, after the phone interview this group adds.
The Asset Management line is our best guess from the steps that group runs and the Markets questions above.
Example questions and how to answer them
Technical"Where is the control premium reflected in precedent transactions?"2,10
- 1Define it: the premium a buyer pays over the target's undisturbed share price to gain control.
- 2Say where it sits: in the purchase price, so in the multiples the precedents show.
- 3Compare: trading comps have no premium, so precedents usually value a company higher.
- 4Add the caution: use the undisturbed price, before deal rumors moved it.
Tip: Asked in the technical interview of a New York investment banking superday in January 2026 that grilled valuation methods. Keep the answer short, and be ready to compare it with the other valuation methods.
Example answer, written by Intervyo (not a real candidate)
Written by Intervyo as an example. The control premium is what an acquirer pays above the target's undisturbed share price to take control, often 20 to 40% in public deals. In precedent transactions it is built into the price paid, so it shows up in the multiples: EV to EBITDA for a precedent includes the premium. That is why precedents usually give a higher value than trading comparables, which reflect minority stakes trading day to day. I would measure the premium against the price before any rumor or announcement, so the multiple is not distorted.
Technical"What risks does a bank face, and which is the greatest?"10
- 1List the main ones: credit, market, liquidity, operational and interest rate risk.
- 2One line each on what it means.
- 3Pick one as the greatest and say why, for this kind of bank.
- 4Tie it to something recent.
Tip: Asked in a New York Private Wealth Management process in February 2026. There is no single right answer; pick one and defend it.
Example answer, written by Intervyo (not a real candidate)
Written by Intervyo as an example. A bank faces credit risk, that borrowers do not repay; market risk, that positions lose value; liquidity risk, that depositors or funders pull money faster than assets can be sold; operational risk, from errors, fraud or cyber attacks; and interest rate risk on the gap between what it earns and pays. For a deposit-funded bank I would say liquidity risk is the greatest, because it can turn a solvent bank into a failed one in days, as the 2023 regional bank runs showed when rising rates cut the value of bond portfolios and depositors left at once.
Resume deep dive"Walk me through a project from your last internship in detail."6,5
- 1Set the context in one sentence: the team, the client or the goal.
- 2Say exactly what you did, in the first person.
- 3Give the numbers: size, time, result.
- 4End with what you learned or would do differently.
Tip: Equity Capital Markets interviewers in New York dug into the detail of past projects and internships (2025), and Private Wealth Management treated anything on the resume as fair game.
Example answer, written by Intervyo (not a real candidate)
Written by Intervyo as an example. Last summer I interned on the finance team of a $200 million medical device company that was refinancing its credit line. My job was the 13-week cash flow forecast. I rebuilt it from bank data rather than the old spreadsheet, found that receivables were collected about 9 days slower than the model assumed, and that changed the size of the line we asked for by $5 million. The lenders used my forecast in their credit memo. If I did it again, I would have set up the weekly variance check in the first week instead of the fifth.
Brainteaser"Roll six dice six times: design a game with seven fair outcomes."6,10
- 1Pin down the setup out loud: one die rolled six times, or six dice six times. The method is the same.
- 2Count the outcomes: one die six times gives 6 to the power 6, or 46,656 sequences.
- 3Find the largest multiple of 7 below it: 46,655, which is 7 times 6,665.
- 4Map those sequences evenly onto 7 outcomes and reroll the one left over.
- 5Say it out loud as you go, so the interviewer follows the logic.
Tip: Asked at an online New York superday in Equity Capital Markets in April 2025, from a junior interviewer. Structure matters more than speed.
Example answer, written by Intervyo (not a real candidate)
Written by Intervyo as an example. Taking it as one die rolled six times: six rolls give 6 to the sixth, or 46,656, equally likely sequences. That is not divisible by 7, but 46,655 is: 7 times 6,665. So I number the sequences from 0 to 46,655, treat number 46,655 as "roll again", and give each outcome to the remainder when the number is divided by 7. Each of the 7 outcomes then covers exactly 6,665 sequences, so they are equally likely; the reroll happens only once in 46,656 games. With six dice rolled six times, the same method works on 6 to the 36th sequences, and again exactly one is left over.
Fit and motivation"Why UBS, and what could UBS improve on?"9
- 1Give a specific reason: a business, a deal or the wealth franchise behind the bank.
- 2Link it to your own experience.
- 3For the improvement, pick something fair and specific, with a reason.
- 4End positive: why you want to help.
Tip: Both came up in a US summer 2027 HireVue in January 2026, along with a recent deal UBS led. Expect the superday to come back to whatever you said on camera.
Example answer, written by Intervyo (not a real candidate)
Written by Intervyo as an example. I want UBS because of how its investment bank sits beside a truly global wealth business: a founder selling a company may also become a wealth client, and I want to work where those connect. My summer at a family office showed me how often the same families need both. On what UBS could improve, I would say US advisory market share: the bank is strong in wealth and markets, and growing M&A coverage with the clients it already has looks like the clearest opportunity. That is the part I would like to help build.
More UBS superday questions
Fit and motivation
Technical
“What are the different types of valuation methodologies?”9
Equity Research, summer 2027 HireVue, Jan 2026
“Accounting technicals tied to anything on your resume.”5
Private Wealth Management, New York, Mar 2025, a topic
“Rank the valuation methods from highest to lowest value and explain why.”
Best guessOur expectation from the precedent transactions question
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How long to hear back after the superday
Superdays and offers move in a few weeks once the HireVues are out, and slots fill early: by February in the main window most were allocated.9,8
Feb 2025 (summer 2026)
Investment Banking, New York
Resume screen to HireVue to superday within three weeks.8
Mar 2025 (summer 2026)
Private Wealth Management, New York
A one-way video interview in January, a firm visit two months later, the superday the following week and an offer call two days after it.5
Jan to Feb 2026 (summer 2027)
Summer analyst, US
A superday about a week after the HireVue for one candidate; others waited weeks with a "still considering" email.9
Feb 2026 (summer 2027)
Investment Banking, US
What one campus source called the last week of superdays, with most slots already allocated.9
Jan 2026 (summer 2027)
Sales and Trading, New York
Quick through the superday, then a longer wait for the result.7
In a fall 2026 re-open (region not tagged), HireVues came 3 to 20 days after applying, and a Global Banking superday ran on Oct 20, 2026 while others were still waiting.11
Best guessExpect a decision within a few days to two weeks of the superday. If two weeks pass, send your recruiter one short note.
What happens after the superday
Online application
An online application with your resume; no cover letter in most regions.1
Aon online assessments
Done. Up to four tests by business area, within seven days.1
HireVue
Done. A recorded interview of 7 to 10 questions in Markets and Wealth Management.3,4,5
Phone interview (some groups)
Done, if your group runs one, as New York Asset Management did in February 2026.12
SuperdayYou are here
This page. Two or three back-to-back interviews, virtual or in person.2,3,1
Offer
By phone two days after the superday in Private Wealth Management (2025); a longer wait in Sales and Trading (2026).5,7
HireVue vs superday
The HireVue screens many applicants on camera; the superday is two or three live conversations, and the questions come back.
FAQ
How many interviews are in a UBS superday?
Two or three back to back. New York investment banking ran two behavioral and one technical in January 2026; Global Markets and Sales and Trading ran two in 2025.2,3,4
Is the UBS superday in person or virtual?
Either. UBS holds final rounds virtually or in person. Private Wealth Management used Microsoft Teams and Equity Capital Markets ran online in 2025; ask your recruiter when the invite comes.1,5,6
Is there an interview between the UBS HireVue and the superday?
Usually not. In most US accounts the HireVue leads straight to the superday; some, such as New York Asset Management in 2026, add a phone interview.8,3,12
How technical is the UBS superday?
It depends on the group. The investment banking technical interview grilled valuation methods and markets; Global Markets was conversational; Private Wealth Management asked accounting tied to your resume; Equity Capital Markets added brainteasers.2,3,5,6
Superday at other firms
Sources
Firm pages first, then dated candidate reports. Last checked Nov 5, 2026.
- 1UBS: Early careers (archived Oct 7, 2026)
- 2Candidate report on a public forum: Investment Banking Summer Intern interview, Generalist, New York (Jan 2026)
- 3Candidate report on a public forum: Global Markets internship interview, New York (Apr 2025)
- 4Candidate report on a public forum: Sales and Trading interview, New York (Mar 2025)
- 5Candidate report on a public forum: Private Wealth Management summer analyst interview, New York (Mar 2025)
- 6Candidate report on a public forum: Quant research intern interview, Equity Capital Markets, New York (Apr 2025)
- 7Candidate report on a public forum: Sales and Trading summer analyst interview, New York (Jan 2026)
- 8Candidate report on a public forum: Summer analyst interview, Investment Banking, New York (Feb 2025)
- 9Candidate discussion on a public forum: UBS SA 2027 (from Jan 2026)
- 10Candidate reports on a public forum: UBS AG Interview Questions (2026)
- 11Candidate discussion on a public forum: UBS SA 2027 Reopened a few weeks back - anyone hear anything? (Oct 2026)
- 12Candidate report on a public forum: Asset Management intern interview, New York (Feb 2026)
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