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British Council reviews

3.7

64% would recommend to a friend

(2,306 total reviews)
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Ciarán Devane

63% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

British Council has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 2,306 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The British Council employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the ONG y Organizaciones sin fines de lucro industry (3.7 stars).

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2K reviews
2.0
Aug 5, 2019
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Pros

Some Creative employees, flexible work hours (unless you get a LM from hell), opportunity to crash test new skillsets

Cons

No support from management, management resistant to change, undertrained managers, lack of investment, senior managers waste money on vanity projects, top down management, complacent management, sense of entitlement from senior managers

4.0
Jun 6, 2017

A secure place to work

Recommend
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Pros

Flexibility, security of the job, nice environment. It depends from one department to another... there are more off days comparing to the local legal ones.

Cons

Senior manager are former teachers with no business strategy although there is a need of a strategic direction especially for the zero grant countries......and not only....

2.0
Sep 27, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Working with some amazing people - I truly mean this!

Cons

When UK managers make fun of your culture, and religion, it devalues your brand. I had one UK leader explain that they know more about my own religion than me. They proceeded to call my culture violent, and the people stupid.

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