EF (Education First) reviews

After a few months working at EF, things went wrong and you get to really see how things work. The Chinese managers (Centre manager and Regional manager) only care about money. They sell old courses when we should be selling the new existing course just because they need to get rid of books. We are promised National holidays, however we are forced to work on those days. Once you complain about anything, the Chinese managers like to be spiteful and try and get you to work on your days off. Out of spite, we worked on a 6 day schedule for an extra month when we should have been working 5 days a week. Pay was late, and bonus was paid two weeks late after several reminders, even though they had the money in the safe which is in the office. They find any excuse to take money from your salary. If you are friends with the right staff then you are protected at work, otherwise they will screw you over. I know Chinese staff who have been fired as other Chinese staff have created lies to work their way up to manager positions. Foreign and local staff are overworked and under-paid. The air conditioners are turned off and after several complaints that the office is too hot to work in at 37 degrees tehy have allowed us to switch on the air conditioners. However, it is now set on warm temperature and we are expected to work in an office that is above 35 degrees Celsius. The Course consultant staff tend to be malicious, back-stabbing, gossiping and money-minded who do anything to get a sell and even if its at the expense of others jobs. So if you wish to work at EF and have a year of hell, where you are exploited, used, under-paid EF is the best place for you. All they care about is money, not education!

Almost everything: the sales team lies to customers, classrooms are overfilled, the schools are poorly maintained, hard-work is rarely recognized or rewarded, managers are bad at their jobs and don't communicate with their staff... it's a terrible organization.