Magic Ears reviews

4.1

78% would recommend to a friend

(240 total reviews)

55% positive business outlook

Magic Ears has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 240 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Magic Ears 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
5.0
May 31, 2018

Great company

Anonymous employee
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Pros

I started to apply for Magic Ears back in December 2017 and was very apprehensive about doing so. I heard a lot of negative things about the company and it scared me so I didn't finish the application process. I finally decided to fully apply in April and have had an amazing experience so far! The supervisors have been nothing but wonderful to me during my trial period and helping me grow to achieve rank! They truly do care for each individual teacher and making sure they are the best teacher possible. The staff at Magic Ears has been responsive to all my emails and always answering my questions. I also LOVE LOVE LOVE the platform to teach on. You can teach up to 4 students at one time and I think it's great to have a group atmosphere. I'm glad I decided to join this wonderful company!

Cons

This is a start up company. For example, there have been several inconsistent policies from the company - sometimes it seems like their workers are not all on the same page leaving the teachers feeling confused.

1.0
May 30, 2018

A discriminatory company

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Pros

While many praise the company, there are many others that were rejected out of discrimination. Do not support countries that have discriminatory internal policies.

Cons

You will not have a chance to teach if you are a person of color, country, cowboy-ish or other ethnic looking people, or with "slight accent" that Management biased classified as a non native or neutral speaking. Do not support companies like this in our country. Stay away.

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Magic Ears Response
8y
We do our best to treat every candidate fairly and equally. Candidates are equally evaluated based on personalities and teaching skills they present during the application process. We are currently working on establishing a more inclusive working environment and we will achieve that for sure. Please have confidence in us. We greatly depend on your support.
1.0
May 15, 2018

Disorganized, Way too much drama

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Pros

Kids are fine, pay is decent compared to other similar companies but not enough to make the stress and hassle worth it.

Cons

Racist hiring practices, disorganized. The staff and other teachers are way too involved in social media drama. Head office people join all the Magic Ears and ESL groups, other teachers will “spy” and report back if you say anything on any Facebook group or page that could even remotely be viewed as negative. “Secondary Positions” are a joke and given out based on how much you parade yourself around social media and promote the company, people have positions training others after only working there a short time instead of being based on experience. The platform is awful, tech issues and a weird curriculum. They want you to basically have the kids parrot everything instead of actually learning English. They really don’t want actual teachers who can adapt to the students needs, just follow the script and have the kids repeat.

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Magic Ears Response
8y
Thank you for your comment. We treat every candidate equally and definitely not screen our darling candidates based on their color. In effect, we are glad to give people a second chance if they unfortunately fail, let's say, their 1v1 training and we see great potentials in them. Teaching performance is what we value the most at the stage of demo classes and trial classes, etc. We endeavor to have our official teachers and candidates engaged on social media like Facebook because we try to build a place where teachers feel at home. They are free to leave questions and post meaningful moments and milestones they reach, whether it be for career development or life events. Teachers at secondary positions are paid to answer questions and find out conundrums to report to to the support team so that we can figure out an ultimate answer. Social media allow staff and teachers, who work remotely, to close up physical distance and reach intimacy. People have positions are experienced teachers, most of whom already ranked up to Magic Masters. Children at the early stage of second language acquisition have low level of proficiency. Listening and repeating are a huge part of language learning process and it is effective but it is just one part of our teaching objectives. Our curriculum are craftily designed by linguistic experts for children aged 5-12 with various life situations, which are helpful for situations that students might encounter if they travel to North America.
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