Pros
-Relaxed work environment -Friendly co-workers -Great opportunity to learn Chinese! -The students can be a lot of fun -Great opportunity to develop your teaching style in a relatively low stress environment -Management is flexible and open to changes, very cool! -Opportunities for promotion if you stick with the company -Occasional opportunities for extra work from within the company -Free online Chinese classes -Opportunities to do work in other parts of the company (voice acting for the online courses/class material)
Cons
-Low starting salary, and it goes up slowly -Teacher evaluations should be more frequent -Work on weekends and evenings -Managers at some centers act tyrannical, and there is not a good system in place to put checks on them. If you have a good manager, your life will be great, if you have a bad manager, your life will be horrible. -Management can be disorganized and has problems communicating throughout the organization, sometimes changes things too much or too often! (One communication issue: I was told that the work week is 40 hours, then I found out that our 1 hour lunch was not counted as one of those 40 hours, so you are actually required to work 45 hours a week, 9 hours a day, not 8 hours a day. It's a little thing, but it should have been spelled out more clearly, and I was a bit annoyed that I didn't find that out until after getting to China)