Varsity Tutors reviews

3.2

46% would recommend to a friend

(1,901 total reviews)
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Chuck Cohn

42% approve of CEO

40% positive business outlook

Varsity Tutors has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 1,901 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Varsity Tutors employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Nov 18, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Work from home is plus

Cons

This company is super shady. At one point during my employment, the laws changed for contractors in California and the company decided to stop using tutors from California. They didn't tell the tutors that they were being "phased out". As technical support, we were not allowed to tell the tutors either. They would call and question why they were not getting clients anymore and we had to lie to them. They make you sign a likeness rights form that states that they own your image/voice/name indefinitely. During covid, the company was strategically poised to offer in-home tutoring as a service... yet panic fired about 20% of the company. My team saw a staff reduction of 50%. We had 8 people trying to run support for all sessions after that. It was hell. Sometime after that, and after my own emplyment, another former employee told me that they outsourced a lot of work to south America after another mass firing. This company has few ethical principles and I have seen them leverage their legal team to worm their way out of situations. Do not work here if you value stability or the moral compass of your workplace.

1.0
May 18, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

ONLY Pros were the promises (that were a scam) Seems like they go through tons and tons of city wide directors- you use your own resources- wifi, laptop etc with the promise of a laptop. Check out the career page....always new faces....people come and go pretty quickly. That says everything.

Cons

I wouldn't believe all the positive reviews on here. The model is to churn and burn through people because you are using your own resources. They want you to work 10 hours a day. They want you to say a rehearsed script. Make initial threats that you won't last so you work nonstop for the 30 day trial. Its a joke.Was promised a laptop in 30 days- what a joke. Bonus structure promised was a lie. The process providing tutors is a joke too. There are lots of other options. Look elsewhere.

2.0
Jul 16, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Remote work and flexible hours. I was encouraged to use up my paid time off which was a nice change from many work environments.

Cons

It pains me to say this, but working for VT has been a downhill slope for months now. By the end I was doing the work of three separate departments. In truth call volume was manageable, but the added responsibilities left us all very stretched thin. Finally, this last week they laid our entire team off, as well as many other teams. This was after we spent the previous 2 weeks training the "new hires" (unknown to us at the time, but suspected by some, our replacements) These new hires are international, and while we were getting paid around 19 an hour, these new hires would be doing the work of multiple teams for a whopping 8 dollars an hour. This is no longer the company I've grown to love over the years I put in, and can no longer recommend working here to anybody.

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