Tutor.com Probationary Tutor reviews

1.3

6% would recommend to a friend

(3 total reviews)

Hyoung Jun (Joshua) Park

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3 reviews
1.0
May 6, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

I have yet to encounter a good reason.

Cons

They are saturated with tutors. I signed up with Tutor.com in December of last year. Every Friday for 3 months I signed in religiously to schedule hours. There were no hours available, ever. Occasionally, they allowed new probationary tutors to schedule hours on Wednesdays, which is the day that higher level tutors can schedule hours. Even then, there were no hours available except for one instance when there were two or so hours available at like 3:00 AM on a Sunday morning. I had school that morning, so I couldn't take those hours. In short, I was "active" with Tutor.com for three months and was not able to get a single hour scheduled. Not one. What really discouraged me, is that I wasn't even able to get hours when they allowed me to "go to the front of the pack" by giving me the scheduling privileges of a high level tutor. That showed me that I wouldn't be able to get hours even if I had been there for years. This is all very frustrating for me, because I spent a lot of time preparing for and then taking the two required subject tests (yes, you have to test into two subjects, not one like they pretend), taking the proctored session, and then logging in repeatedly to try and get hours.

2.0
Jul 29, 2014

Not worth your time

Recommend
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Pros

I wanted to find another part-time job that would allow me to stay at home and make a couple of extra bucks during the week. This job was just that. On top of that, I got some experience tutoring Spanish, which is a must with what I intend to do in the future. Some students are very gracious and thankful for your time.

Cons

While some students were really great, others were terrible and despite attempting to help, they just give me bad reviews. Unfortunately with Tutor.com, reviews matter a lot and even when trying to talk with my mentor about what happened, all I received was indifference. My mentor was really no help at all throughout the entire time I was a tutor here, and if you have a tech problem or some conflict with scheduling, you're doomed! Attempting to talk to someone who knows what they are doing seems incredibly complicated with this company. In the end, I wasn't getting enough students to make the job worth my time. Depending on whether you could be at the computer at the right time on Friday afternoon, sometimes scheduling could be really easy or incredibly difficult. "Floating" didn't always help either since there were so few students who needed assistance in Spanish.

5.0
Jun 24, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

I love working at home whenever I feel up to it. I am disabled and setting my own schedule is very important to me and makes my life a lot better. 90-95% of my students have been pleasant and made my job easy, although you occasionally get stinkers. I have a fantastic mentor (who I suppose would be my supervisor) and she gives great feedback and is always available to me.

Cons

The system only works on Macs and sometimes won't connect if you're on a weak connection. The pay isn't great (but if you're like me and have only ever earned that much in your life, it's not annoying). The checks only come once a month and I wish it was twice.

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