EF (Education First) reviews

1. Boring curriculum with lack of build and there’s a mess with putting students in the right level. 2. Attendance policies end up encouraging sick students to come to class and discouraging traveling. 3. A lot of the students become dissatisfied with time because they are not receiving their money’s worth which makes it harder to teach. 4. The company doesn’t care about employees or students/customers. It’s bewildering to what extent EF will push profit. Sometimes it’s counterintuitive. For example, the teacher turnover rate is incredibly high, you would think that the company would have realized by this time that paying teachers a bit more will actually bring more profit and better quality, but no. 5. You know the low pay you are going to get when you sign up for the job. Everyone knows that they are going to spend more than the paid 15 minutes to prepare for class. What you don’t know when you are signing the contract, is the amount of mandatory, mundane, and pointless work that you will have to do beyond lesson prep. And this mundane work will take you more time than your allotted 15 minutes.

You'll be expected to give more and more of your time to the company, including long weekend events where it was expected you'd dance with colleagues (awkward), with little to show for it. If often felt that you were isolated from your loved ones, like during the holiday party where no significant partners are allowed, just to rely more and more on the company. Unless you are one of the Ivy League recruits that come in from the 360 program or from a famed business school across the river, you will be treated as an insignificant resource whose energy will be taken advantage of, and will soon burn out. Growth can happen - but it's unfortunately mainly lateral. Pay is abysmal, and pay equity among colleagues doing the same work and having the same experience is non-existent. Despite living modestly, my colleagues and I had several side jobs to be able to stay afloat financially. We all had a mix of sad health issues resulting from long hours, the unrealistic expectations thrust upon us, and negative work environment.