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EF (Education First)

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EF (Education First) reviews

3.4

61% would recommend to a friend

(4,609 total reviews)
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Edward Hult, Ph.D

61% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

EF (Education First) has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 4,609 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 Educación industry (3.7 stars).

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5K reviews
1.0
Nov 27, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Relatively flexible working hours and the opportunity to work in an exotic country.

Cons

1. Dreadful management. 2. Very poor pay. 3. Unfair pay scale - students score the teachers after each lesson. Students will often give low scores due to a bad internet connection and this will lower the amount you are paid. 4. Very poor lesson material. 5. No chance to progress within the company.

1.0
Sep 14, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

nothing i have seen good about this company.

Cons

1. They hire for some task and they fire once there work is done. 2. They trap the candidate giving more hike ....better dont join company else after some time they will throw you out. 3. Do not have good future in indian market. 4. Recommendation as is well wisher dont join them ever 5. even i have seen candidate has stopped joining this company for lil hike.

1.0
Apr 30, 2024

Possible worst office of the company

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

At EF Budapest the coworkers are AWESOME which makes the situation even more bitter. The company loses plenty of talented people because of the leadership style. As you are in the same boat with the coworkers, you can build good relationships. But it would be great if not the fact brings you together that you all hate where you work at. The company provides a great salary, high above market average. If you want to save a lot of money in a short time, EF Budapest might be a solution for you. The company is providing visa support, so if you are an international, it would be easy for you to get here.

Cons

Working at EF is a challenging experience, by the end you will know how to filter out possible red flags in a next possible employer and what to pay attention to. But overall EF sets the bar so high that any next opportunity will be less worse then EF, Budapest (!) office. Below my experience and my views how it is like being an employee of EF: 1. Micromanagement Either you get no attention at all and you work as a ghost at the company, or you are micromanaged in all aspects of your work. If you cannot stay longer outside working hours (which does not considered outside working hours as local manager makes you feel that work should mean the life to you), you are questioned what else are you doing but not working for the company. Pushing tasks aggressively, asking for updates all the time, making everything urgent, during winter holiday, over the weekend etc. 2. No HR at the company This is quite a global issue at EF, but there is no HR at the company who is dealing with Employee Relations stuff. This is surprising and sad also for those coming to an HR position which at the end is not HR, but payroll. If you have a specific problem, you are directed to your manager, but if you have problem with your manager then it is a checkmate situation. Only solution is for you to resign, because no one will help you. It feels like 'HR' is also not supported in case they raise concerns. 3. Stifling atmosphere and stress At the beginning they are trying to show you how dynamic and fast paced and cool the company is, but over time (or right away you step in) you will realize that only the management can see it that way. Management puts a lot of pressure on you and does not respect you if you try to keep yourself to the working hours set in contract. Of course all for these overwork, you do not recieve any compensation back. Upper management creates an atmospehere that you can be valued only if you work all the time, and does not respect you or take you into account if you are setting boundaries. High salary cannot compensate the health issues what stress causes on a daily basis. 4. Lack of documentation, processes The company represents a learn on the job mindset which is fine until you are trying to follow a process (which was spread by word of mouth), and next day your supervisor tells you to do the other way because some upper management folk asks them to do something which makes you break the process. There is no documentation, no processes on paper, which makes your daily work very difficult. In case there is, management shows no consistency on that. 5. Company does not respect individual Overall the company uses you as a resource and try to maximize your capability and workload to be able to get the most of the work out of yourself in a short time, and shows no care about if you leave after. This is especially true in case of Hungarian (mostly younger adult) coworkers who are seen (again, by management) as complaining all the time, not being grateful, being dissatisfied all the time, however they are the ones who can see what terrible offer EF has, not the ones here working with visa. Hungarian colleagues are in the shadow. Apart from that, your voice is not heard at the company, your opinion does not matter, your concerns are not taken into consideration, you only get the minimum information needed to be able to get your job done. They are extremely egoist with a high-hat, but I do not know for what. Aggressive leadership methodology and superiority what you receive.

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