Vantaggi
Joined post uni and learnt a huge amount about business, myself, and sales during my 4 years. The culture is usually good - fun parties, and typically good people across the board at IQPC. Running global events, travel, banter, commission - all positives.
Svantaggi
Very slow at change - horrifically so... You will get bored here after a few years if you are the kind of person who wants to have an impact on a business. Middle-manage politics is also a bore, training ramps up around the times when management are being pressured and then dies a quick death the moment nobody's looking. Micro-management 100% Business seems to be run on 'how it looks/feels' rather than any data analysis or view of market size etc. Roll of the dice as to whether you earn or not - the event landscape is huge - many different sectors all going through their own economic cycles and issues - targets are the same irrelevant.