Cambly reviews

3.2

63% would recommend to a friend

(1,013 total reviews)
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Sameer Shariff

50% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

Cambly has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 1,013 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Cambly employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Educación industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Aug 7, 2018

It gets old very quickly

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Pros

Flexible scheduling of classes and ability to work from home. About the only thing positive I can say about the company is it does have a very flexible system but you have to get priority hours to make money on the system and the company is somewhat unreliable with how often they release priority hours. You can work from home so it does offer much flexibility.

Cons

Unprofessional staff So many trial students who are not serious about lessons Super slow and buggy system The staff is incredibly sensitive and unprofessional. Don't complain or question the system or they will immediately get very sensitive and difficult to deal with. The company's proprietary system is very slow and has many glitches but the staff will blame everything on you no matter what. Staff tried to tell me it was my internet connection when I could show speed tests showing I had an excellent connection. Be careful dealing with staff because they will deactivate you if you are too strong in your questioning. I believe the company constantly over staffs and then tries to find any reason to get rid of tutors who question the company. Also the company constantly gives out free trials out and many of these students are not serious at all about learning English. Prepared to have some derogatory insults hurled at you. I got called darkie and negro several times but towards the end the company provided a method to ban those types of students.

4.0
Aug 2, 2018

flexible

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Pros

you can pick your own schedule

Cons

the pay isn't great but there is no lesson planning required and no assessment, most students just want conversation

5.0
Aug 1, 2018

A moving experience

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Pros

Cambly is one of the best online teaching programs I have worked with. Their reach in terms of education is unprecedented and I have met a range of students from all parts of the world. Their lack of constraints in terms of obligatory teaching periods means that the power of earning is placed in your own hands. This makes being a part of this community very convenient. I have genuinely enjoyed this experience and have had my own paradigms vastly expanded through working for the company. My final comment is that the Cambly team is very responsive and supportive which has contributed hugely to my positive experience in working for them.

Cons

The cons of working for Cambly are few but still there are a few inconveniences. Firstly having to set up a paypal account which you can actually access your money from in South East Asia is incredibly difficult. Secondly there is no incentive system to improve your level of teaching besides the promise of bussier teaching slots. These priority slots on average pay what you expect- over a long period of time. There are many instances though when 5 hours of teaching will only yeild about 60% of what you were expecting to make. in this case expecting to make 50$ and only making 33$. This has been rather frustrating. If there were a pay rise incentive I feel that the minor inconveninces of working for the company would be laregely negated. The company is still in my opinion one of the best.

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