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3.2

46% would recommend to a friend

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Hyoung Jun (Joshua) Park

36% approve of CEO

33% positive business outlook

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2.0
Mar 31, 2024

Brain dead policies

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Pros

They have increased pay recently. As a college student it's convenient to be able to tutor and make money when I have the time. They have a decent support structure for tutors with relevant feedback about how to actually be a better tutor. They are very flexible with scheduling. So far they've also been very responsive when I have questions and they keep an open line of communication.

Cons

A lot of their policies are completely brain dead and are inconsistently enforced. They want you to keep session lengths to less than an hour for "contractual" reasons and because they've found that the students productivity falls off after the first hour. This is complete BS because they allow the students to immediately rejoin a new tutoring session after their previous one ends, and I've ran into situations where I've immediately gotten rematched with the same student after ending a session with them. They throw you in the deep end without much in the way of training. Policies are not clearly communicated. They want you to be completing 5 hours of tutoring a week minimum starting out, which I was achieving, but I was then later told that I need to be completing 30 sessions in the first month of employment as well. This wasnt communicated to me until day 21 of the first 30 orientation days when I had less than half of the required number of sessions. Most of my sessions are an hour or longer, meaning they really expect you to be putting in 7.5 hours a week instead of 5, effectively moving the goalpost. The software is also really outdated and poorly designed. The tutor portal on their website is horribly organized.

2.0
Feb 26, 2024
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Pros

Work from home. You can make money in that time you would normally spend watching pointless TikToks.

Cons

They keep adding responsibilities without increasing compensation. Recently, they announced pay increases for about 60 subjects. However, rather than just increase pay, they have to "take" from somewhere else; they made it more difficult to achieve the monthly bonuses, increasing the number of hours needed to get the bonus by 7 and tacking on a provision that requires tutors be available to accept concurrent sessions (tutoring 2 people on different sessions at once) for an increasing percentage on each bonus level. In addition, if the subject you were tutoring (and the level you were tutoring at) is already at $15.00/hr or more, you didn't get a pay increase. Therefore, for many employees, pay has actually decreased. In a time where rampant inflation caused companies to need to increase wages to help employees earn a living wage, these imbeciles are the only ones who are decreasing pay. In fact, if you move to a state where minimum wage is lower, they will reduce your hourly pay for your "waiting rate" (the rate of pay you receive when you are scheduled and available, but no students have shown up yet to be tutored) to that minimum wage. Many companies do "salary studies" to ensure their salaries are competitive based on job title and employee location. This company's equivalent of a salary study is, "what's the lowest we can pay these maggots based on where they live?" They continue to enact tutor-unfriendly policies, and when they get rid of policies, they don't announce it; they just drop them from the manual and hope you don't notice so that you continue to comply. Finally, this company's management is atrocious. I'm speaking specifically about "Learning Services." Quality Specialist Managers are either completely ineffectual or they micromanage their quality specialists. If you're a tutor, your experience will be governed solely by how reasonable your quality specialist is. Some quality specialists (and senior quality specialists) seem to spend their time finding reasons for you not to get promoted to higher tutor and quality specialist levels. They will pick apart the most miniscule things and expect perfection as an excuse to keep holding you back while the Senior Quality Specialists and Quality Specialist managers will enable that behavior. On the other hand, the requirements to become a tutor now are so laughably easy that they probably felt the need to "tighten up" on the newest tutors while letting experienced tutors go for practically a year without a review. And no sooner did they introduce new requirements for quality specialists, including a revamp of the entire QS process, now they're changing the quality specialist roles entirely to have personnel dedicated to one (and only one) of five roles. I'm convinced that the head of learning services throws a dart at a board and wherever it lands she decides that's going to be the management strategy for the quarter.

4.0
Feb 21, 2024
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Pros

Hours are highly flexible. The work is meaningful and has an impact. New hires get excellent support.

Cons

Poor pay Restrictive company policies Annoying required software.

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