Posts about EF Corporate are getting a bit old now and some seem uninformed.
I am going to break EF corporate down into a pros and cons list. I worked for EF Guangzhou corporate for a year from Spring 2011-Spring 2012

PROS:
In terms of school resources, they have online materials and books that are readily available. It is all EF’s curriculum, but I found it quite easy to make activities from the materials using grammar points, or vocabulary from the unit. It takes some more time in terms of lesson planning, but former teachers have left loads of materials on the computers and most of them are quite good. You could just teach from the EF book, as parents are paying for the EF curriculum if you want to take the easy route. I just needed to make things a bit more fun.

You have a foreign boss. The DOS is your go to when it comes to problems. Some are better than others and will take up the issues with the center manager. I worked for a crazy woman for a year in Seoul and had to put up with her craziness since she was the owner/manager.

Once you get comfortable with the courses teaching becomes easy. You can recycle so much material so lesson planning is cut in half.

Time off – especially if you have Monday and Tuesday off. Saturdays and Sundays are long days, but you get big gaps between classes (usually). I had Mon/Tues off and then did not have to be at school on Wednesday until 3 or 4pm, which gives you time to get away for the weekend.

I made a large group of friends, who were all in the same boat. Yes we bitched about work but who doesn’t? I met some great friends out there and during time off we took some fun trips.

Travel! After my contract I spent a month traveling through western China. All the hassle was worth it.

CONS
Summer course and winter course are a bit daunting. You do get the afternoon or evening off a few days a week, but your workload goes through the roof. They do have materials and you just “follow the given lesson plan” which is what I did. If that’s what EF wants you to do, then just do it as it saves you time and energy and they look stupid if the lesson plans are horrible (which they usually are for winter and summer course).

The Chinese CR’s (customer relations) are annoying and clueless. They will do all they can to keep kids in class and parents paying. If a child is too low for a class, they don’t care. They will do all they can so the student won’t have to move down and be shamed or they leave and EF loses money. They will also ask you to focus all your time on a struggling child, while completely ignoring other students. Just ignore them, and smile and say you’ll do your best but then totally disregard what they say, they are not the teacher, you are.

Staff training sessions are horrible. When I was there from 2011-2012 they were making major testing changes and book changes and no one in management seemed to know how to implement the change correctly.

International schools pay more and have better hours, but you need higher qualifications. Everyone has to start somewhere.