This thread is a couple of months old, but just in case anyone is still following it...

I've been working at EF in Shenyang for the last year and a half. As far as I'm concerned, it's a good school and doesn't deserve a lot of the bad press that some of the schools around here get. At the moment we don't actually have a DOS, but we'll be opening up a new center in the north of the city in the next month or two and have a DOS lined up for each of the centers (the teacher who will be in charge of the center here is training in the US at the moment). The leadership is mostly Chinese, I've found them to be very supportive both in school work and with any problems teachers have with their apartments, health etc. Quite a few of the teachers stay for longer than their initial year contract, it seems that if you can get past initial problems with the cold winters, pollution and cultural differences it's not a bad place to live and work.

To be honest, this is my first proper teaching job, so I can't really compare my experience here with other schools. I'd say the facilities are fairly basic but improving (we should be getting new computers and video projectors in the classrooms starting in a couple of months); the salary is probably slightly above average for a school of its kind (although I've never heard of any problems regarding payment on time) and the staff are supportive. I have heard of some issues with EF in general, but I'd say you shouldn't be too worried about signing up here in Shenyang.