Changing rapidly, and not for the better - Online Tutor PAPER Employee Review

3.0
Sep 20, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Flexibility of schedule, work from home, and relatively decent pay.

Cons

As the company has grown, it has increasingly shown signs of creaking under its own weight. For example, firings of upper management roles have been happening without warning on a regular basis for some time now. It doesn't matter how wonderful your performance is or how much time you've been with the company - at this point many are going to work with no idea whether their job is in peril on any given day. This creates a lot of infrastructure instability for both the platform managers, and the tutors. I have been assigned 4 different Tutor Managers in my two years working there. It won't matter when I got to get a referral from this company for my performance for future jobs - there will likely be no one close enough to my (might I add: excellent) performance reviews left to know who I am. My main concerns center around its lack of respect for the front-line workers: the tutors themselves. Tutors are routinely paired with 3-5 students at a time (unbeknownst to the students, who are marketed to as getting personalize, one-on-one tutoring), and sometimes upwards of 8-11. As you can imagine, it's impossible to tutor realistically at this speed and pace, shuffling back and forth between windows of students while trying to rapid-fire field their questions in a dizzying array of subjects and homework assignments. I used to love this job when I started - feeling such enthusiasm for my students' and great joy after a successful session where real connection and learning was made. This is just not possible now. As a result, there have been several cases of mass exodus resignations by some of the best tutors we have lately. Paper's modus operandi is truly hard to understand at the moment, when they are gaining huge contracts with districts all over the United States and growing rapidly, but failing to hire and provide coverage to achieve the student-to-tutor ratio that would actually uphold their personalized tutoring marketing.

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5.0
Nov 8, 2025
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Pros

Great Work and felt very rewarding.

Cons

Few Hours and not a lot of support.

4.0
Jul 17, 2026
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Pros

Real remote flexibility here. They are embracing the technology we have to ensure our work life balance remains a high priority. You're trusted to manage your own time and get the job done without constant oversight. The bigger story though is the turnaround over the last year and a half. The new leadership has turned the ship around... before it fell off the map. The mission is clear now, and there's real room to help shape how we get there rather than crossing our fingers, closing our eyes, and hoping for the least worst.

Cons

Leadership communication is where things fall a bit short. We get the monthly all-hands and then... radio silence. I get it, priorities compete and there's a lot on their plate. But when the crew is the one actually rowing the boat, it helps to hear from the captain more than once a month. The occasional engagement via Slack, a little more visibility in between the big meetings would go a long way toward keeping everyone rowing in the same direction. We're all in this together - it's helpful to be reminded why a bit more often.

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