Tutor.com reviews

3.2

46% would recommend to a friend

(596 total reviews)

Hyoung Jun (Joshua) Park

36% approve of CEO

33% positive business outlook

Tutor.com has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 596 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Tutor.com 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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596 reviews
2.0
Feb 26, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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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.

1.0
Dec 22, 2023

Very terrible and unreliable

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

WFH is the only pro

Cons

You are hired to be placed over several undetermined months of probationary period. Be careful! They can terminate your employment without any reason just because your assigned quality specialist continuously wrote unfairly prejudiced reports regarding how they want you to tutor students. It's very ambiguous. Students rated tutors 5-star, but the quality specialist wrote 500+ words criticizing how badly you tutored the student, even though the student left comments saying that they finally understood the subject. It's ridiculous. They made the rules and you need to follow the rules to tutor. The worst thing is that there is no SOP and standards about how the rules should be obeyed. All comments are very subjective and biased.

2.0
Sep 15, 2022

Avoid At All Costs

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Flexible hours That's about it

Cons

Capped at 2 hours a day Isolated from all other tutors Underpaid Students are disrespectful - you're not paid enough to babysit the college students that demand you solve all their problems Unreasonable expectations from management - from the tutoring time limits to the invasions of privacy

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