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EF (Education First)

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Low pay, high stress - Sales EF (Education First) Employee Review

3.0
Sep 12, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Good people, travel perks, great benefits (insurance, pto, etc.)

Cons

Low pay for the amount of work you’re expected to do, poor alignment with sales and operations, company has all these big plans and can’t follow through with them which hurts employees at the bottom of the totem pole, and poor work life balance

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EF (Education First) Response
10mo
Thank you for taking the time to review your time at EF. We’re glad to hear you valued the people, benefits, and travel perks during your time here. We appreciate your feedback on compensation, workload, and alignment across teams. We review our compensation packages regularly to ensure they are benchmarked with industry standards, so input like yours is helpful. We also encourage any current employees to reach out to their manager or Recruitment and Employee Development (RED) Team with any concerns about workload or work-life balance so that it can be discussed further. Thank you again!

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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
1mo
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
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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