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EF (Education First)

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EF (Education First) reviews

3.4

61% would recommend to a friend

(4,611 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 4,611 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
5.0
Sep 9, 2025

Great place to work!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

Salary, Flexy timings, Learn new things on own

Cons

nothing as such to see

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EF (Education First) Response
9mo
We're so glad to hear you're enjoying your work here, thanks for sharing!
2.0
Sep 5, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Was a good training company at the beginning and good student base- good bonuses on the kids teaching platform, had a good mentor early on when worked for the company, a good place to learn initially.

Cons

Became much more corporate, not enough classes or availability , management didn't really care about welfare and well being of staff mental health etc, A complex and unfair process about resolving technical difficulties with the classes, looking to keep money and not pay out to staff who had technical difficulties or reprimand students who had technical difficulties or not shown up to a class.

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EF (Education First) Response
9mo
Hi, thanks for taking the time to write about your previous experience working with EF Teach Online. If there are technical issues with the platform, we are able to support teachers and students promptly. Teachers have a dedicated team managing a customer-service ticketing system to ensure all queries are responded to as soon as possible, and students have a similar system available with their own dedicated multi-lingual team. It’s case by case, but if an issue arises on the teacher’s side, teachers may not be compensated if the class could not be taught. However, if the problem is clearly on our side—for example, if the site goes down—we proactively update class statuses and ensure teachers are compensated, even if no report is submitted. Our goal is always to resolve issues quickly and fairly. But if this was not the experience you had, we encourage you to reach out to hr@ef.com so we can properly address your specific case (especially your comments around lack of respect or regard for welfare, as that is highly concerning). Thanks again.
2.0
Sep 4, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

If fun to work here- they have a really big budget for parties, internal celebrations, bar in the office- fun colleagues/etc. Beautiful office to enjoy- you'll meet good people and enjoy going into the office

Cons

You'll be paid under market. Always. If you are well-liked, you'll have a lot of opportunity to try different things within the company and get to do a lot of travel/etc. They internally call moving around a "spiral staircase"- aka you just keep doing different roles without moving up and this is a way for them to 'reward" you without paying you more. You would not believe the number of conversations I have been in where there were discussions about how to retain employees and motivate them without paying more.If you are not well liked, you will have no opportunities no matter how hard you work or how good you are. Recognize if this is you and leave- it won't change and it feels horrible and is mentally very unhealthy. Also- if you stay too long, you will not be able to get hired anywhere else- the experience you gain here can be very silo-ed and niche and no one anywhere else will care that you led an internal team to spearhead a conference of some kind- i have seen this happen to multiple people who stayed too long and had a fancy Director title then couldn't get a job elsewhere. In my opinion, the most ideal person to work at this company is someone who comes from wealth and needs a fun job but doesn't need to make a lot of money or have career growth. They have excellent health benefits and other perks. but if you need money and growth- not the best place

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