Tutor.com reviews

Here's my single biggest gripe about Tutor.com: every week, the different tutors have different scheduling times. Tutors level 2 and 3 schedule their hours at noon on Wednesday, tutors level 1 schedule at noon on Thursday, and probationary tutors schedule theirs last at noon on Friday. This means it's basically impossible for probationary tutors to find hours. For about 3 weeks, I've tried scheduling my hours exactly when it opens up to probationary tutors, only to find the schedule's completely full with no available hours. Tutor.com doesn't open up enough slots for all tutors, meaning many tutors have to try "floating", working unscheduled hours. In theory, this gives tutors a lot of flexibility. In practice, it doesn't work since student demand for tutors rarely exceeds what the scheduled tutors can handle. Therefore, very little "spills over" to floating tutors. The student user base is not exactly small, and given what Tutor.com charges the students (about $40 an hour) they are certainly more than capable of opening up more time slots to tutors, especially in high-demand hours.

Focus has shifted from helping students to recruiting non-English speaking students and students from for-profit colleges who are seeking answers rather than tutoring. Tech platform makes it impossible to stay online. Student ratings are the backbone of any type of promotion which will lead to a paltry increase in salary. Used to be a top-notch company when I started years ago; now, I barely recognize it. Better companies out there -- both in quality of students and salary. Such a shame -- it was a great concept, at one time.