EF (Education First) reviews

ESL teacher pay is pretty rock-bottom. You do TONS more work outside of your "work hours" that are not compensated. You may teach for 6 hours a day, but likely you're spending an extra 6 hours at home planning lessons, grading, doing paperwork. This amount of effort is required from you but is not acknowledged. Also, probably due to the low pay, turnover is quite high.

*Very little pay (compared to other companies that do the same thing and considering that a lot of the EF branches insist employees have a degree) *Policies change with little warning (which may include employees doing more work but for the same pay) *Salary incentives depend on grading done by students (often influenced by technical problems or poor lesson material provided by EF) *Lesson material is not updated (students get annoyed doing the same topics repeatedly) *Employees are not paid for extra work (if a student requests a custom topic teachers have to make a lesson plan in their own time with no extra compensation). *EF technical problems (at times the EF servers go down which means classes can not be taught) *Insufficient training (training focuses more of EF policies than useful teaching tips or classroom management)