IQPC reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(981 total reviews)

Rick Worden

73% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

IQPC has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 981 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The IQPC employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.6 stars).

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981 reviews
1.0
Oct 27, 2014

The most unrealistic and ridiculous work load ever known to man

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Working for a large global company gives you opportunity to work with some great minds so you meet some good people. People harp on about the training but it's nothing special.

Cons

Do as you're told. Do the bare minimum. Not encouraged to be innovative. Budgets always getting chopped. Huge egos. Senior management butt kisses high performers - who then become impossible to work with. A lot of senior management are 'children' - one MD is early 30s - hugely unprofessional and sexist with a dash of racist too. It's all very incestuous and gossip filled environment.

1.0
Apr 7, 2013
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Pros

Dress down Fridays Close to Victoria station Lots of nice eateries in the area

Cons

Poor level of management, bullying and gossiping to the extreme, you won’t last long if you’re not in the ‘in’ crowd. Terrible Marketing practices including bulk mailing (spamming?) our membership to within an inch of their life. High pressure-cooker type of environment where bullying is rife and emanates from the top down! Sweatshop type environment be prepared for 10-12 hour days, to skip lunch, to be under-paid and seriously over worked! Archaic work practices, it’s virtually impossible to learn anything from management, however you can learn about industry specific information if you are an event producer. Effective communication with clients and staff is simply non-existant. Incompetent senior management are combative and abusive to staff, people are treated like cattle and management are not intelligent enough to realise that communication is key to developing and maintain business relationships with staff and clients, which is Business Administration 101. Clients are burned, after sale – just terrible! High pressure-cooker type of environment where bullying is rife and emanates from the top down! Sweatshop type environment be prepared for 10-12 hour days, to skip lunch, to be under-paid and seriously over worked! I have been in business from a long time within a managerial role and I was unpleasantly surprised by some of the unscrupulous payment and work practices, I have worked in firms where they toe the line but some of the work practices at IQPC are just plain illegal! Think twice before implicating yourself!!!

1.0
Dec 5, 2022
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Pros

-You have more responsibility and autonomy than in other workplaces, even if you are junior -Get to travel

Cons

-Inefficient company -Teams are structured and ran to work against each other not together -Senior Management has no interest I'm helping others -Incestuous -Pervy men prey on younger employees ESPECIALLY when they are drunk at events / work drinks - BE CAREFUL -Unrealistic deadlines and targets - purposefully designed to make you feel bad about yourself (which senior management massively reinforce and apply pressure) so you work evenings and weekends and almost kill yourself on an event, only to later find out the senior management didn't even believe the target was achievable. -still 80s workplace culture hidden beneath modern 'we care' language -Commission is misleading -a crazy high turnover -if something is broken or inefficient the company will not fix but instead make you in charge of solving that problem then watch you fail and put pressure on you -Noone cares about the quality of the event or clients, its all about just pumping them out quickly and cheaply -Pay is much lower than average -Noone knows what they're doing -'not my problem' attitude throughout company -senior managers undermine each others teams so that they come out on top -no sense of teamwork at all

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IQPC Response
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Firstly, we are very sorry to read such a review AND would really like to encourage this individual to come forward so that we are able to address the issues raised. These are matters that have not been shared with the Company. Diversity is a core commitment for us as a business and we have achieved some fantastic milestones in 2022 to improve our business for the future, this includes : - Our first Women at IQPC Conference which was attended by over 100 female employees and had a fantastic agenda to progress the conversation of equality. - Our London office now has more female managers than ever before – we primarily focused on Sales and now have numerous female sales managers and directors - We operate a headcount that is 48% female and 52% male Whilst we continue to improve it is essential that employees feel safe to share the poor behaviours of others so that we can address them and eradicate from our business. We are a people first business, and we really would appreciate the opportunity to resolve any matters that have not been made known to the Company thus far. With regards to the commercial comments – All of our UK businesses are performing extremely well this year and we are on track to potentially surpass our record profits.
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