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      C2 Education

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      3.0

      33% would recommend to a friend

      (1,055 total reviews)

      Peter Waller

      30% approve of CEO

      33% positive business outlook

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      C2 Education has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,055 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The C2 Education 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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      2.0
      Nov 6, 2015

      Great Pros and Awful Cons

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      Pros

      It all depends on the director. I have been very fortunate to work with reasonable and generous Center Directors, and that makes all the difference in the world. If you have a good director, s/he will work with you, do his/her best to make your hours regular and accommodate your scheduling requirements with a win-win mindset. So IF (HUGE IF) you have a good Center Director, this is a good place for an educated person to make some gas/meal money working two or three weeknights and perhaps a Saturday. The money is decent enough, the tutors are caring and very good people, and the directors take care of the politics with the parents and let you concentrate on teaching. You even get your fair share of students in whose lives you make the proverbial difference.

      Cons

      At the corporate level, this place is very sketchy. (I said there were some very bad cons and I meant it.) The CEO takes the inherent cynicism of for-profit education to a new nadir of obnoxiousness. Upper management views the futures of children, the livelihoods of teachers, and the entire practice of education as NOTHING EXCEPT a market to be tapped for maximum profit. What does this mean in practice? It means that Directors are pressured endlessly to con clients into taking tests and classes that they don't need, that they will radically overstate the importance of going from a 1800 to an 1850 on the SAT in order to sell hours, and that upper management keeps moving the goalposts in the incentive structure to coax directors into selling more hours, in the process exhausting and demoralizing the directors. It means that tutors are given next to no paid prep time and that as a result, 20% or more of one's hours can end up being unpaid labor. Management (make no mistake about it) KNOWS that they are doing this. It's part of their business model, and it's easy to read between the lines when they talk endlessly about going "above and beyond" the call of duty. It's also easy to figure when you realize that they are constantly getting into legal trouble with their penchant for playing fast and loose with labor laws. It means that maintaining consistency in students' tutoring takes a back of the backseat to meeting student ratios, resulting in endless quick-changes in scheduling and students being bounced around from tutor to tutor. It means that they rush high-cost, low-quality materials to market and encourage students to buy said low-quality in-house materials so that they can make more money off them, while expecting the tutors to cover for the myriad problems with the work. It also means that tutors get tired of this (and all that was aforementioned) so turnover is high. Management is rhetorically committed to lowering employee turnover, but is practically committed to maximizing short-term profit period, and so they are opening new centers like coffee chains (literally, their new management team was imported from Starbucks) while letting the lower management deal with the problems in existing centers mainly by threatening them.

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      Thank you for taking the time to share your opinion about C2. We are glad that you have a good relationship with your Center Director and that you share our mission to help C2 students and their families benefit from a better education, now and always. C2 is now the fastest-growing education enterprise in the country with over 170 centers nationwide and is opening, on average, more than two centers per month. We are fully aware of the challenges that our employees face when working to provide a variety of comprehensive enrichment services to over 10,000 students each week. In order for us to continue to help students realize their dreams, we must keep growth at the forefront of our business. However, we aim to grow without sacrificing the quality of our product and satisfaction of our employees. We are also committed to promoting and fostering equal opportunity in all operations of our company. C2 Education is fully committed to ensuring not only compliance with equal opportunity laws, but also a deeper commitment to the principle that diversity and inclusion will help us realize our greatest potential as a company and maximize the potential of all our employees. We value you as an employee and thank you for your dedication to our students and families.
      5.0
      Nov 4, 2015

      Solid tutoring job

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      Pros

      You get to help students on a personal level. You really get to know them over time. The pay is great as long as you are working with students directly. Getting hours varies by location, but your experience here will help you tutor privately or work for another company.

      Cons

      The pay for training or admin work was 9.50 or so, half of what I was paid for tutoring with students. I moved around from center to center as a sort of substitute tutor, so I never developed deep ties. I was also expected to teach an incredible range of subjects, or perhaps just encouraged to do so- ACT, SAT, science, writing, whatever.

      3.0
      Nov 2, 2015

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      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Nice people to work for if you want to work in a nice environment without a high salary.

      Cons

      Salary is low so you can not earn too much money if you need to earn much more money than they offer.

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