I was at EF Hohhot for one year. During that time I had 3 DOSes. The first stepped down after run ins with Lily then Grace our CM's over their stupid behavior -making teachers work the same day they flew in from the US after going home to get their visa, charging teachers for damages in their flats which was not their fault. Then Grace became our DOS! Yes a Chinese DOS with no idea how to deal with foreigners who thought we should all work 6 days 40 hours a week while she would turn up at 11 have a 3 hour lunch and go home by 6. She also went off during summer intensive for nearly a month to the UK on holiday but lied that she was caring for her sick dad whilst us teachers had to work 6 days a week even though there was hardly any classes and no need. We had to go in and sit in the office rather than have 2 days off! Also she had been replaced at Baotou for being a bad manager before coming to Hohhot. The Chinese Management are all spoiled little girls who have the right family connections so can't be sacked and who have no idea how to run a business and just use the teachers to get as much money from students as possible but it's the same in most schools here. By the time we got our third DOS the current DOS was on his mission to get the job which he felt he was more entitled to! Everything already posted here is true. He spat in a female teacher's ice-cream because she complained her hours were a bit high, he gave teachers he didn't like more hours whilst his friends were on low hours during intensive. He is not going to have your back unless you suck up his arse like his little groupies do! EF Hohhot will hire anybody (except if your black!) so despite some teachers there thinking "they are the best teachers ever" as quoted by one arrogant knob, it doesn't matter, they have hired alcoholics and perverts who date 18 year old students and not sacked them so anybody can apply and will be accepted. When I was hired I was under the impression I didn't require a degree which as I don't have one was my main reason for going to Hohhot but I discovered they do require one so will fake it and not tell you. You can get a job without a degree anywhere in China despite people telling you otherwise. Most teachers I know have no degrees. If you are set on going to Hohhot there are better schools such as New Oriental, Little London, Forwards etc. EF Hohhot has become like a school playground with bullies, cliques and bad management and I was glad to move on. I loved the kids I taught and I made Western and Chinese friends for life but I never considered re-signing for another year and I would never work for them again. The school needs to sack its management team both Chinese and Foreign and start afresh.