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Terrible Place to work - Activities Assistant EF (Education First) Employee Review

1.0
Apr 10, 2023
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Pros

You do meet some great people here.

Cons

The pay was absolutely horrible. I was overworked and had a terrible unqualified boss who harassed me every day. I wish I had reported her to HR. I had to do my job and my bosses job and get screamed at daily for no reason. EF NY School principal was a terrible manager who had no clue what was going on in the company and had completely checked out. If you become a manager, the pay is great, you get to travel, and you have a great career but the lower people are abused, harassed, and treated like crap. They take advantage of recent college graduate who do not know better. They should unionize. They only care about money and the students are too excited to be near NYC to care about the bad dorms and lack of recourses. In an office of 20-25 people I saw in less than a year over 70% of the employees leave. The hire turn over did not worry the corporate company because they only cared about profit.

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5.0
May 20, 2026
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Pros

Fun place to work at. Lots of opportunities especially early on in a career.

Cons

Sometimes salary is not as competitive as other places in Boston area.

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EF (Education First) Response
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Well this is what it's all about! Early career opportunities while having fun along the way is a big part of what we hope people experience working at EF, and we are happy to hear this in your reflection. Thank you for sharing your note on compensation as well. We review our compensation packages regularly to make sure they align with our industry standards, and we appreciate your perspective on that.
1.0
Jul 7, 2026
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Pros

Well structured, comprehensive formal training. Perks and benefits

Cons

Once training is done, you’re pretty much on your own to figure things out. The weekly meetings with your manager end. You spend all day on the phones and there’s not a whole lot of interaction or collaboration going on in the office or across your team. At the end of the day it is a job and the perks and benefits are nice (travel). It just seemed social interaction of any kind, even to ask questions, was discouraged and in fact was viewed as distracting. The cold calling just gets to be tiring after a while, making it hard to stay at the job for longer than 1-2 years. Good entry level sales job, though.

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