Tutor.com reviews

3.2

46% would recommend to a friend

(596 total reviews)

Hyoung Jun (Joshua) Park

36% approve of CEO

33% positive business outlook

Tutor.com has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 596 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Tutor.com 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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596 reviews
2.0
Apr 7, 2024

Undervalues employees

Recommend
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Pros

WFH, flexibility, proprietary software streamlining process

Cons

Incredibly harsh demands for very little pay. There is a time limit on all sessions, for some it is as low as 20 minutes, which makes it nigh impossible to get any teaching done. Breaking the limit too much will result in a probationary period. Hours are limited to 28/wk, and the pay is so low you have to have another gig because this will not sustain you regardless of where you live. Moreover, it is actually incredibly difficult to rack up 28. You definitely can't schedule that much, because the scheduling is organized in such a way that you can count yourself lucky if you squeeze in 7 hours. Why does it matter? You get paid a portion of your waiting rate on-shift; otherwise you can come in and hang out in the queue to get a random stray student, but you only get paid for time spent in session. So with little to no shift availability, you have very few opportunities to learn. It's worth to keep in mind that we keep getting told that we are low on tutors for a particular subject, but there's barely any shifts available as-is with the current number of teachers. Quality specialists are just sort of... there. They make or break your promotion from newbie to intermediate, and so on, but their reviews don't always match up client satisfaction. The protocol is all over the place and you need to check upwards of 3 different, sometimes self-contradicting sources to figure out your course of action in weird situations. Also, since you are a part-time employee as a tutor, you don't get any benefits.

3.0
Apr 3, 2024

Decent side job

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

This job allows flexibility for busy people.

Cons

This job never guarantees hours and does not value long-term employees.

2.0
Mar 31, 2024

Brain dead policies

Recommend
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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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