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Horrendous place to work - Anonymous employee EF (Education First) Employee Review

1.0
23 Dec 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Colleagues below management level were great fun to work with

Cons

Expected to work lots of extra hours (including weekends) over what your contract states for absolutely no reward or pay what so ever and with little warning. Other than a very poor salary there are no other staff benefits at all. Career prospects aren't great. Teachers were very unhappy and unmotivated at the school I was working at. Little understanding for work/life balance - I was once told by the school director that EF is my life and that my family should come second. I was told that the sales teams around the world lie to the students about what they can expect from studying with EF. For such a wealthy organisation school budgets are extremely tight. Everything is driven by profit rather than the service being provided to the students

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5.0
20 May 2026
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Pros

Fun place to work at. Lots of opportunities especially early on in a career.

Cons

Sometimes salary is not as competitive as other places in Boston area.

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EF (Education First) Response
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Well this is what it's all about! Early career opportunities while having fun along the way is a big part of what we hope people experience working at EF, and we are happy to hear this in your reflection. Thank you for sharing your note on compensation as well. We review our compensation packages regularly to make sure they align with our industry standards, and we appreciate your perspective on that.
1.0
7 July 2026
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Pros

Well structured, comprehensive formal training. Perks and benefits

Cons

Once training is done, you’re pretty much on your own to figure things out. The weekly meetings with your manager end. You spend all day on the phones and there’s not a whole lot of interaction or collaboration going on in the office or across your team. At the end of the day it is a job and the perks and benefits are nice (travel). It just seemed social interaction of any kind, even to ask questions, was discouraged and in fact was viewed as distracting. The cold calling just gets to be tiring after a while, making it hard to stay at the job for longer than 1-2 years. Good entry level sales job, though.

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