Good experience overall; if you're living somewhere with average cost of living- don't make it your primary income
Pros
Gain TEFL teaching experience, talk to people all over the world, help others learn English, supplement your income or fund your travels to countries with low cost of living. Overall, Cambly has been a good experience for me. I've talked to many people with incredible backgrounds. I think a lot of what you get out of the experience is what you put in. It's unstructured English tutoring, but I always make an effort to ask students about their English goals and challenges, and I cater the conversation to what they want to talk about. More times than not, people just want to practice casual conversation or read news articles with me. It's very easy work, and it's provided me with some tutoring background that I can apply toward my TEFL certification and future English-teaching opportunities.
Cons
Low pay, technical/connection difficulties. It took 3 months for my application to be approved, and after I was approved, there was a technical problem that prevented me from tutoring for 2 additional months after my approval. To resolve the problem, it took 2 months of ongoing attempts to contact support- through email and social media- to get someone to fix it. Sometimes, the camera cuts out or disconnects (this is sometimes due to Cambly, but it's sometimes due to students' connections and/or equipment). Pay is low. If you talk the whole time, it's $10 an hour, but in actuality, it averages out to about $7.50-$8 an hour when you're just using PH time and don't have reservations.
