Brain dead policies - Tutor Tutor.com Employee Review

2.0
Mar 31, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

They have increased pay recently. As a college student it's convenient to be able to tutor and make money when I have the time. They have a decent support structure for tutors with relevant feedback about how to actually be a better tutor. They are very flexible with scheduling. So far they've also been very responsive when I have questions and they keep an open line of communication.

Cons

A lot of their policies are completely brain dead and are inconsistently enforced. They want you to keep session lengths to less than an hour for "contractual" reasons and because they've found that the students productivity falls off after the first hour. This is complete BS because they allow the students to immediately rejoin a new tutoring session after their previous one ends, and I've ran into situations where I've immediately gotten rematched with the same student after ending a session with them. They throw you in the deep end without much in the way of training. Policies are not clearly communicated. They want you to be completing 5 hours of tutoring a week minimum starting out, which I was achieving, but I was then later told that I need to be completing 30 sessions in the first month of employment as well. This wasnt communicated to me until day 21 of the first 30 orientation days when I had less than half of the required number of sessions. Most of my sessions are an hour or longer, meaning they really expect you to be putting in 7.5 hours a week instead of 5, effectively moving the goalpost. The software is also really outdated and poorly designed. The tutor portal on their website is horribly organized.

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5.0
Nov 3, 2025
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Pros

Reliable tutoring job that's available online. Easy to use system for the tutor.

Cons

They have a long onboarding process and a lot of links to keep in mind.

1.0
Jan 13, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The students are usually nice. Work from home.

Cons

There is no appreciation of employees. They give badges instead of raises. Don't be fooled by the $22 per hour posts. They do not pay that much for most tutoring. Most work is under $20/hr. The job that pays $22/hr is horrible according to most tutors. There is twice as much unpaid work involved compared with regular tutoring. This is not a job that pays a living wage. If you think you can stick out a low wage for a few years and then get a better wage from them, think again. They never give raises. The piddly 50 cents in January is not a raise. It is simply based on the minimum wage going up. It's an insult. If you think you can gain experience and then move on to another job think again. They don't give recommendations either. I hate working for this company. They have repeatedly tried (unsuccessfully) to get me to work without pay for things like training and meetings when they only pay min. wage even when they do pay. If they had their way, they would send all jobs to India, but their contract with the DOD is holding them back. This company is owned by the Chinese. Don't expect fair wages. I have to work more than 40 hours a week to get paid for 25 of them. Work-from-home jobs do not pay well, so keep that in mind when you are thinking about the benefits of working at home.

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