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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1.0
Sep 4, 2019

Wow

Recommend
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Pros

- Thrown in at the deep end (you either sink, or swim.) If you swim, you can keep your head above water for 12 months to be "accepted" by IQPC. If you sink and can't withstand the pressure, you are bullied, ridiculed and either want to leave or made to leave sharpish...

Cons

- Females abused and no action taken, even though they know exactly what is happening. Perpetrator in one instance (after complaining) stayed on to commit ANOTHER offence two years later. Victim left. - Real talent is not nurtured - they wait for the talent to bottleneck and then let them go, only for the poor ones to remain and left to run functions without experience. - SPEX sales are treated as "gods" - they can do no wrong. Producers need to (in manager's own words) "flex" to them. Lack of respect for other functions. - Producers are told different "rules" for profit share in different departments. For instance, in some departments, producers don't know that Ops get "commission" back from hotels, bringing negative budgets £ into the positive £ - yet IQPC still take their profit share from them for their next "positive £" event - MDs have their own "budgets" distinct from the conference budgets that teams are told to "own" for real P&L terms. How can we "own" events when we know the budgets are BS? - Operations are (again in management's own words) "trolley dollies" - expected to buy drinks and hand them out for company meetings. Again being labelled as doing the "donkey work." Head allows such behaviour and does not support team. - Key managers are incredibly lazy and do nothing, whilst new employees work until 11pm some evenings on less than £20k. - The list goes on. Go in with your eyes WIDE OPEN.

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IQPC Response
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Thank you for your review, it is important we listen to all forms of feedback and continue to improve as an employer as a consequence, but I was saddened to read your review. As a Company we are continuously looking at ways we can improve our Employee Experience and Engagement. We do this through Employee Surveys (completed through a third party to retain anonymity) and as a result of this feedback have made some hugely positive improvements over the last few years. Things like: • Improved Company Benefits (i.e. – Increased holiday allowances, improved pension, life insurance and more work is being done on this to significantly further our provisions in the near future) • A new On boarding Platform to help new starters familiarise with the company and their roles • A new On-line Training platform, plus monthly Global Webinars focused on core skill development Your comments on Anti-Harassment are especially disappointing to read. We take our duty of care seriously and would never allow or condone the behavior you mention, and want to assure you that we have never received a complaint or allegation and not dealt with it thoroughly and professionally. It is essential that we investigate and appropriately deal with any allegations or complaints. Sadly situations can be discussed amongst colleagues (who may not have access to all of the facts) but for us to commence an investigation they also need to be formally raised to the Company, when this occurs, we always carry out a full and complete investigation. As a proactive measure, and to underline our determination and commitment towards a diverse and meritocratic work environment, every employee has been provided with external training on an updated Anti-Harassment and Bullying Policy I was also really disappointed to see that you did not feel developed by our organisation. Nurturing talent is something we pride ourselves in as an organisation and we have a strong track record of doing this. Most organisations would make such stock responses as well, but we genuinely can back this up with fact. Over 70% of our managers have been through our Annual Management Development Programme and this year we’ve also redesigned our Performance Management Programme to focus on future goal achievement, supported by transparent and structured career paths for all core functions. Feedback on training in our employee survey continues to be positive, but we continue to increase investments in training and coaching year-on-year Like all organisations we know we still have work to do but we remain committed to creating a fun, transparent and collaborative environment, where all our employees feel valued and supported and we believe these efforts are increasingly visible in our retention and staff tenure rates which beat industry benchmarks. Furthermore, we would invite anyone reading this who is considering a role at IQPC to contact us and arrange to come in and meet our management team and any of our staff to gain an accurate first hand perspective on what life is like at IQPC.
1.0
Jan 31, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Baptism of fire into the sales world, if you can get by here you’ll be in good stead for most sales roles.

Cons

Almost every thing, culture, pay, unrealistic targets, bad management, you’re treated with no respect. The events are poor and provide little to no benefit to the end user, selling this is a difficult task! Do your self a favour and don’t work here.

1.0
Sep 5, 2016

Sales

Recommend
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Pros

If you have been here a few years you have decent companies who account for most of the commission. Power hour is fun, just make sure you have been to the toilet beforehand, the wait for the toilets after can take fifteen or twenty min and it's not a great look going during power hours

Cons

Training is awkward at best and hardly relevant. Leads in most areas have already been spoken to a thousand times. Your job is mainly to source leads and a team leader will do the closing and it's rare they keep to the time arranged with client that the conversation will take place, also it can feel a bit cringe watching them use exactly the same pitches on every single call.

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