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      EF (Education First)

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      3.4

      61% would recommend to a friend

      (4,616 total reviews)
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      Edward Hult, Ph.D

      62% approve of CEO

      48% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.8

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.7

      Culture & values

      3.2

      Work/Life balance

      3.2

      Career opportunities

      3.1

      Senior management

      2.9

      Compensation and benefits

      EF (Education First) has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 4,616 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The EF (Education First) employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.8 stars).

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      5K reviews
      4.0
      Sep 25, 2012

      During hot season you're going to get crazy, but team spirit and lot of interesting work helps to stay tuned

      Regional sales manager
      Recommend
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      Pros

      It's good to work in a company where every employee loves his work. It is a realy huge international company - my trips to offices located in different parts of the world confirmed this. It doesn't matter in what country are you working, you always find help from colleagues around the world. The company is really strong team spirit. Sometimes you have to work for wear - it concernes summer monthes. You should be ready that you will not have vacation during this periond and sometimes you will have to stay longer in the office.

      Cons

      There is no social package for employees.

      3.0
      Sep 21, 2012

      Great colleagues with poor management

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      The best part of working at EF language schools are definitely the people I worked with. Technically, teachers are competing with each other for classes, but there was never a shortage of colleagues helping each other in lesson planning, classroom management, and giving support in one way or another. The students also made for a great experience as well.

      Cons

      Management of classes. Staff at our school routinely ranked high in reviews from students and we had a high rate of recommendation. However, management always nit-picked about the 1% of complaints and too often micro-managed staff. Managerial reviews are nothing more than mere formalities. Additionally, classes would all too often be arbitrarily given and taken away without good reason. If you enjoy uncertainty of work and lack of transparency, this is the place for you.

      1.0
      Sep 17, 2012

      Highest turn over rate in Denver with lowest pay.

      Tour consultant
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Young environment, you get to travel once a year on a tour (if they dont think you will be fired in the next 4 months) and well thats about it.

      Cons

      They expect you to work 10+ hours a day with no over time, take no lunch breaks and come in on weekends for $27,000 a year. People get fired like crazy here. If you miss one goal you are done. This company has been around for 47 years and they are JUST now trying to reconstruct their company environment. EF screws customers over and lies to people about how the tours really are. It's hard working for a place where you know your product is NOT the best out of all the other travel companies, in fact it is probably the worst. The management is awful here. You can never move up in this company and the 5 out of 120 people who have been here more than 2 years would NEVER want to be a manager or director. No room to grow, awful pay and awful management. Save your energy for an interview with a real company.

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