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
2.0
Nov 14, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

- Direct colleagues are fantastic. - A fair amount of opportunities to progress as staff turnover is so high. -Good experience to be had if you're fresh out of college, but don't work there more than a year. - Nandos is close by.

Cons

-Shocking lack of transparency between management and staff. - Audacious promises made that are seldom honored, - Awfully low pay. - Ostrich syndrome amongst majority of management - consistently ignore the fact that 70% of workforce is perpetually unhappy, even though they're well aware of it -Absolutely no sense of employee retention/ loyalty. Only the absolute best performers are rewarded for their hard work. Expect nothing if you're working in a support function, or a middle of the road performer. - Poor management decisions that cost time, money and people. - Sales office staff are treated like children/dogs. You sell something, you get a bag of Haribo, or if you're lucky, a beer, doggy treat, toy ball. - You're told when to take breaks. You stand up when you're told to, and if you argue, you get a disciplinary - Don't make coffee during 'power hours' or management will belittle you. This is where the ambition bereft come to die.

1.0
Nov 10, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

1. Making (although very little) money 2. Extremely close to Grand Central 3. Easy hours - 8:45-5pm.

Cons

Everyones salary for the same position is different. I worked in SPEX aka Sponsorship & Exhibits Sales Executive role. They will make sure to low ball as much as possible. At the time I had 4+ years sales experience and the jerk manager I worked with, hired me for a astonishing $37,500 base salary with different things in my contract where if I sell a certain amount of sponsorship, it will go from $42,500 to $45k to $50k. If you arent entry level, I heard a colleague of mine had to show him a past paystub in order to get a higher base salary. I didn't do that, I would up getting fired (thankfully) after 2 months there for not producing. Con number 1....The extremely low salary didn't motivate me to want to advance the company, I felt like I was getting taken advantage of so I just let them subsidize me while I found a better job (which I did in the event services industry). They make you sign a non-compete form to not work in the industry for a year, but I didn't listen to that, and wound up getting a job in the industry with a $50k base to start. Shows you how much they value their employees. Con number 2...The manager I worked for who no longer is with them. I remember during freakin' training this guy treating me like a POS. He was arrogant, and just a bad human being. Worst training I ever experienced. Between the manager being straight up mean and the low base, the bathrooms where one of the stalls you can look right into, and there never being cups for the water dispenser that's in the office room as their is no break room, there is nothing good about this dumpy looking office or job.

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IQPC Response
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Thank you for your feedback. At any company, salary is commensurate with experience and other factors, and in a sales role, incentive compensation in the forms of bonuses and commission is intended to be just that - incentive. Glad to hear the manager you had such a bad experience with is no longer employed by us, so that's one issue we can cross off the list! Hope your new position gives you what you're looking for, and we wish you the best of luck in the future.
1.0
Nov 9, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

IQPC do have some really nice people working for the company and their management is quite good. They also offer really good training for people that have just got out of Uni and want to develop a career in sales or event sales, but I wouldn't recommend it for experienced sales professionals or people that have their own place as the salary is quite low and the bonuses are a bit poor. In general the culture is not bad and lots of people seemed happy there.

Cons

The main downside was that I lived in South London. They offered me a job in Victoria but told me a location lie and sent me to Berkshire instead which took 2 hours travel daily and cost me £18 a day. Not good when you are poor. I was getting up at 5.30AM every day to get there for 8AM and not getting home until after 8PM. The hours were too long. How can they expect people to be committed from 8-6 and only earn 18k a year? I was forced to leave in the end due to them deciding to keep me in Berkshire for another month and I simply couldn't afford it and wasn't willing to sell my soul to them. I wouldn't have accepted the job if I'd have known.

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