Tutor.com reviews

The job has a few downsides - the pay for concurrent sessions is less than it should be, hours can be difficult to find sometimes (your personal availability schedule does not always match peak student schedule), and connecting with students long-term to give them the real, individualized help they need is all but impossible because of the anonymous, randomly-assigned nature of the sessions.

Scheduling is an absolute pain. If the tutors treated the students like the mentors treated the tutors, there would be no more students. The mentors love to talk about being positive with the students. But, they are always negative with the tutors. Out of 100 sessions, with 99 positive sessions, if you have one session marked poor, the mentors and supervisors will brand you a poor tutor. I even had a supervisor tell me that with a statement I made in a session, a student "could take" it as being negative. What? We are suppose to be careful even if a student "could" take a comment as being negative now? Please! A student could take it negative that they simply didn't get a correct answer, period. How is that a reflection on the job the tutor does?