EF (Education First) reviews

There is no employee retention at all. Middle/upper management is a total disaster. You are either 120% micro managed or your manager completely ignores you - there is no inbetween. There is no compensation besides your monthly salary and private healthcare. Management is afraid of home office, you have to be 5 days on site. The office is noisy, dirty, outdated. Chairs and tables are not really fit for a modern office environment. Laptops they give out should go the garbage directly. Calling yourself a "big startup" does not make up for the chaos and the lack of documentation. Coming to Hungary and being able to hire only from outside of the EU is joke, oh well, hungarians realise that what you offer is nothing. There is a recruitment and employee development team, but they should be renamed to "Visa team" as they cannot really hire talent from around here and there isn't any employee development programs in place at the BP office. Having pizza days, mexican days and this sort of thing is not going to make people like you, this is not the early 2000s anymore. Not even gonna mention the unpaid overtime...

Management has no clear direction or communication A few people in management/ senior management roles are VERY toxic, some put professional values aside for personal feelings, some are talking down to non-management level colleagues (high-horsing/ passive aggressive tone or sarcastic replies to serious matters) Seemingly no effort to keep employees around Office morale is always low, people burn out fast No home-office Strong push to do a lot more than required, often leading to unpaid overtime, no culture for work-life balance Office layout is terrible, very few meeting rooms (and no culture to book the room or care if someone books it), no air-flow Teams can be very siloed, leading to a culture that promotes keeping other teams out that makes communication borderline impossible in some cases where we have to fish for weeks for a single reply