A once promising company heading to the wrong direction - Sales GlobalEnglish Employee Review

1.0
Aug 25, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible working condition. If you work in sales/customer facing role, you can literally work anywhere you want as long as you're connected at your schedule as long as you get the job done. Each year there's a Sales kick off meeting, where virtually everybody working in client facing role is invited to attend this week long event.

Cons

Where should I start? With the recent completion of the Pearson acquisition, the original GlobalEnglish leadership team is pretty much all gone. The new leadership team still doesn't seem to fully understand the market and the business and come up with the right strategies, and they have been doing a very poor job of communicating with all levels of the company about their vision and plan. Product line up & Go-to-Marketing strategy are weak. Pricing strategy is unrealistic to the market and competitions. Employee morale is low, and pretty much every month you hear a long time employee leaving the company.

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5.0
Mar 14, 2022
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Pros

Wonderful people along with beautiful offices.

Cons

None!! Wonderful company overall and great location.

4.0
Sep 30, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Very flexible schedule. I'm in the eastern U.S. and heir high demand hours are 5am to 11 am... if you work during this time, you'll get a nice full schedule. But since they have students from all around the world, you can get hours all throughout the day into the evening with no problem. It's very flexible, you don't have to stick to a rigid lesson plan. You "coach" the student along in their activities, encouraging them and helping them with difficulties along the way. You address their English needs such as an English presentation they are working on or an email they need help with. Or, if they want, you practice business small talk. I really like the flexibility. They have recently merged with Learnship so we'll see what changes come along.... but so far, so good!

Cons

I have gaps in my schedule, which I'm not paid for and I'm not crazy about the fact that if students cancel more than 6 hrs before their class, I don't get paid. I'd prefer for it to be 12 hours. But, that unpredictability is to be expected in this line of work. Oh, and this isn't a problem for me, but it should be noted that they don't offer health insurance that I'm aware of.

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