VIPKid reviews

Loss of Appreciation - I felt valued when I was first hired and felt like more than just a number. Now I'm lost in a sea of over 100,000 teachers, with no stop of hiring in sight! My bookings have been affected, and morale is suffering. Terrible Hours - The long-term physical, mental, and emotional tolls are real. Pay Cuts - VIPKid has just announced there will be NO future base pay raises (after previously implementing a flawed criteria-based system AFTER hiring people who were promised raises, then told they had to earn them by teaching more classes, and now they’ve been taken away completely. Loss of Incentives - VIPKid has replaced their monetary incentives with a cheap token-based system that isn't beneficial. They are now retracting the $2 per class incentives given for being on time and completing 45+ classes per month. Overall, I will be taking nearly an $4 PER HOUR pay cut after dedicating 2.5 years of my life to this company. I’m going to be losing over $50 every month - if my open slots even book, since now bookings are dropping across the board. Poor Communication - As the company grows and expands, its communication does not. New updates in the classroom and out of the classroom are often discovered by surprise or from word of mouth from other teachers. Information, when given, is typically too late. Teachers' concerns are no longer heard or responded to. Increased Pricing for Parents - VIPKid continues to raise its pricing for the families who have been loyal customers for years. Long-time students have had to leave the company to seek more affordable English lesson elsewhere, stifling the growth created by new incoming students. VIPKid is working backward, not forward, in terms of teacher respect, appreciation, and compensation. They don’t care about their teachers, we are “easily replaced,” and this feels like they absolutely want us to know that. Message heard loud and clear.

Interview takes a few weeks; I did not understand that the peak hours of teaching (6-10 pm) meant in Bejing time, so you're teaching extrememly early/late (depending on when you normally sleep). I thought I was going to be reimbursed $50 for class supplies (like a whiteboard and puppets and other props I bought) but this did not happen; I got extremely sick and had to cancel classes for 2 days, and because of their bizarre attendance policy (2 classes counts as one cancellation, so if you've got 6 classes in one day and have to cancel them all, I think that counts as 3 cancellations, and you're allowed 6 total per 6 month contract period) I got money taken away from classes I'd already taught. Bonuses are also advertised in a misleading way. You have to work like 30 slots to earn a bonus that seems like you'll get as long as you show up and teach the class, no matter how many you have. In the first month I've taught maybe 6 classes. I haven't had a class booked since I got sick two weeks ago. Trial classes, which made up like 5/6 of the classes I had, pay you $4 for 25 minutes. If you never have an emergency or get sick, I guess you'd probably do ok, but for me, I thought I'd be working pretty steadily but I have no work at all after getting sick. I am an asset for this company, yet they absolutely took advantage of me for getting sick.