IQPC reviews

Everything is built around a soulless sales culture that prioritizes sponsorship deals over the quality of events or any kind of long-term customer/client or employee care. Often things are sold to sponsors without any idea as to how to deliver on them and often little effort to deliver. Many events are run on the cheap in dingy outdated venues with expenses cut back to the maximum. Event calendars are treated like a sweatshop process with producers being given too many conferences all at once and made to churn out uncreative carbon-copy campaigns. Sometimes office politics gets out of hand between departments and global offices. For example our MD was terrified that the new digital events department was going to appropriate a lot of the traditional business revenue so the team were told not to help the digital staff and even sabotage their efforts when they could (which of course would only really mean lost revenue for the whole company). Never seemed a healthy way to run a business! Sadly there is also a long embedded culture of bullying, harassment and backstabbing, including senior event management, which is treated like an open secret among staff internally. Jobs constantly threatened if targets aren't hit. Pay is low for most and expectations are far beyond normal for those doing the ground work leading to a stressful environment that many people leave fairly quickly. Oh, and mice. Live ones and dead ones, take your pick. So you always run the risk of finding one on your desk in the morning, as has happened to some!

Treated like another number and not a human-being Graduate sweatshop Spoken to and treated like a five year old Boiler room sales environment (quantity over quality) Lack of benefits Very little responsibility Severely detrimental for mental health Management are out-of touch with staff and only focussed on themselves