AJ Tutoring reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(240 total reviews)

Aaron Andrikopoulos and Joe Niederman

89% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

AJ Tutoring has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 240 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The AJ Tutoring employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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240 reviews
3.0
Mar 30, 2018

Not what you really sign up for

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Offices are nice to tutor in, and the snacks and free coffee provided are reminiscent of a start-up or more established corporate company Good effort to train tutors on various subjects/tests There is a chain of mentors and team leaders that provide support weekly Competitive pay, but only when the hours measure up.

Cons

Hours are flexible, but sometimes too much so. One week you can be getting 25 hours of tutoring, and the other week you'll end up with 10 or less. This can be frustrating when you intended for it to be your full-time job. This will NOT be full-time work unless you get in your 25 hours of tutoring, and that will definitely be difficult up until you finish your first year at the company. It seems as though this is falsely advertised in hiring boards and websites...administrative work is discouraged, and so if you don't have the students, you're not really left with anything. Training is abundant, but not really much on teaching methods, just the materials that AJ has on that particular subject. This becomes difficult when you have students where the explanation that's fed to you just doesn't make sense, or when you get that exceptionally inquisitive student that asks about anything and everything. With admin time discouraged, you don't find yourself with the adequate resources to be fully equipped to teach at a high level. You have to really have the passion for the subject and to teach the student. No room for professional or career growth. If you want to move up from here, don't choose to work here unless it's in education. And even then, 1-2 years at most.

1.0
Nov 3, 2021

Beware admin

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Some tutors, company parties, social gatherings

Cons

Company morale, treatment of the admin, pay, under appreciated all afound

2.0
Oct 11, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Interacting with the students was a huge draw and made the day much more bearable. In time, you will create strong bonds with many of your co-workers.

Cons

There is little to no room for growth or pay increases (tutors are except from this aspect). They under pay, under appreciate and outright mistreat many of their "support" staff. Tutors walk on water, but anyone else is held to an unachievable high standard. If you ever go above and beyond, work extremely hard to meet a specific deadline, or work yourself into a frenzy to get something done, it will be your new standard base line performance and anything else is subpar. Management does not take the time to think through what they say or what they do it. In once instance, management ordered all offices to take down an LGBTQ+ rainbow AJ logo from each and every office. They did not take the time to think through how this would effect no only their employees, but also students, parents and community members who may have seen this as a sign that they were accepted in this space. After an uproar, they offered a lackluster apology about how they had not through it through enough (this was after many employees told them that they no longer felt safe at their place of employment). In the wake of COVID, numerous "support" staff were furloughed and eventually laid off. However, no one in the company was officially notified of this change. To this day, they have not told the Office Directors that their own Office Managers and an HR employee were let go. For your own mental health, avoid this place.

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AJ Tutoring Response
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Thank you for taking the time to leave your feedback. I’m sorry that you didn’t feel like your experience with us was a good one. We want all of our employees, regardless of title, to feel valued and appreciated. We will take your feedback to heart in how we interact with and manage our support staff. To respond to your other points - we support and welcome all of our employees and students, without reservation. Based on employee feedback and with their collaboration, we created a new AJ Tutoring-specific LGBTQIA+ flag design that can be displayed in our offices longer-term, and has been for almost a year now. Unfortunately, like many businesses this year, we’ve experienced a downturn from Covid-19. When we had to close all of our offices in March, we furloughed some of our administrative team. Seven months later, we still have not been able to reopen our physical office locations. The majority of our office managers’ job description involves managing day-to-day operations for our offices, and so we made the difficult decision to lay off some of the members of our admin team, a decision we had hoped to be able to avoid until recently. We did not make this decision lightly, and we’re sorry for the impact it had on everyone affected. We’re looking forward to the time when we’ll be able to reopen offices and return to full capacity. Thank you again for your thoughts, and best of luck to you in your future endeavors.
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