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Travel perks to hide the other stuff - Sales EF (Education First) Employee Review

3.0
Jul 18, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Travel, great colleagues, affinity groups

Cons

Pay is extremely low. Some people don’t hit goal and keep their job and some people are goal hitters that lose their job. Metrics are not evenly applied, and management ultimately makes major decisions on a whim.

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EF (Education First) Response
12mo
Thank you for taking the time to write a review. We’re glad to hear you valued the travel opportunities, your colleagues, and our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) resource groups here at EF! We review our compensation packages regularly to ensure they are benchmarked with industry standards, and feedback like yours is helpful as we continue those evaluations. Regarding your comments about metrics and leadership, we encourage you to reach out to your manager, your Recruitment and Employee Development (RED) team, or hr@ef.com to discuss further. Thank you again.

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5.0
Apr 22, 2026
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Pros

Good training, good communication especially for a remote position, flexible, great management

Cons

Scheduling and staffing effectively could be challenging due to unpredictable nature of emergency response, which caused both understaffed shifts and overstaffed shifts. In addition, phone-based customer service can be emotionally challenging - customers in stressful situations can often be difficult to deal with.

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EF (Education First) Response
2mo
Hearing that the training, communication, and management stood out, especially in a remote setting, is really meaningful. Thank you for sharing! As you mentioned, the nature of emergency response is inherently unpredictable. Our phone-based support in high stress situations can be central to defining the experience for travelers, and the people who handle it are a big part of that. We’re proud of the team you were part of and hope the skills you built here continue to serve you well.
1.0
Jul 7, 2026
Recommend
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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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