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British Council reviews

3.7

64% would recommend to a friend

(2,312 total reviews)
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Ciarán Devane

61% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

British Council has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 2,312 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The British Council employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the ONG y Organizaciones sin fines de lucro industry (3.7 stars).

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2K reviews
5.0
Sep 17, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Lots of training opportunities and career progression. It can be a job for life which is very unusual in this field. The office culture obviously varies between countries but the organisation is so huge that there are plenty of opportunities all over the place.

Cons

There is a definite glass ceiling where you need to know the right people to get on. This permeates across different offices and countries too as the managers have very often mixed a lot in past roles. This creates a 'boys club' atmosphere in the senior management, making it very hard to bring about organisational change and very challenging to even be recruited if your face is either unknown or if you have crossed someone in the past.

5.0
Sep 2, 2014

Great organization

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great culture and good working athmosphere Some travel

Cons

Salaries are below the market Variance in leadership quality

5.0
Sep 1, 2014

Amazing

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Ethical fun sociable travel interesting

Cons

Low salaries nothing else nada notch

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