Varsity Tutors reviews

3.2

46% would recommend to a friend

(1,901 total reviews)
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Chuck Cohn

42% approve of CEO

40% positive business outlook

Varsity Tutors has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 1,901 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Varsity Tutors employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Sep 3, 2020

Lies.....all lies

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Pros

- paid training trip - pay - bonuses - great job to ride out for the "training period" and make nice bank (after that the bonuses are less and not worth the stress or feeling like ick everyday after interacting with your "team") - Offer bribe to people exiting to not say anything negative about the company (which is why you'll see very few if any negative reviews)

Cons

- one of the most unethical companies I have ever worked for in my life - lots of fake reviews written by current staff on Glassdoor and other sites to encourage people to apply - This is a job mill with them constantly hiring and firing people without even giving them a real chance and lots of moving people around. - Little to no stability in your role. - They expect you to work even outside of your work hours...for free. One of the reasons people (who weren't me) do so: - If you set up a sale and someone else only takes the payment information while you are away, THEY get credit for the sale, not you - Sales employees do and are encouraged to outright lie to clients to convince them to get the services - cursing and other bad, obnoxious behavior during meetings sanctioned by supervisor - employees and supervisors work as a group to construct lies to tell clients during "team" meetings & laugh at all of the people who fell for the lies - Company changes rules and requirements from one day to the next with little to no warning - Claims clients can choose in-person or virtual services when in reality they will then (after payment) try to force the client who signed up for in-person services to do virtual services (because virtual tutors get paid less). They do this mainly by saying that: Sorry, we can't match up the good in person tutors with your schedule, however, we do show that "Jane" can match your schedule and is highly rated. Unfortunately, Jane can only do online. If they resist online, they will badger them. If this doesn't work, only THEN will they actually try to find them an in-person tutor....at the lowest rate possible (for Varsity Tutors), regardless of reviews. - Will hire many tutors (even knowing they don't have work loads for them) just to keep them from working for competitors (via the contract) - Will use lower paid, unqualified tutors (even those with many complaints) over higher paid, excellent tutors. I even looked into a tutor's file and saw a note not to give her work (though she was excellent) because of her pay rate. Yes, it literally said it was because of her pay rate! - Offer bribe to people exiting to not say anything negative about the company so people will never know the real truth about them

2.0
Aug 23, 2015

Director

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Pros

Working from home. Though I think the company's expectation of its employees working a minimum of 50 hours a week diminishes that perk.

Cons

$40k/yr to work the way company policy states is ridiculous! Upper management needs to put their money where there mouth is and actually show that they value their employees. Turnaround is insane

1.0
Nov 30, 2017
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Pros

They give you a lot of food and most co-workers are nice. The operations manager and trainers are very nice and helpful.

Cons

There are so many! To start, management is awful. If you’re doing well, they love you, but when you’re not, they’re not very nice. They play a huge amount of favoritism and you’re screwed if you’re not a favorite. The leads are awful, and it’s an overly glorified call center. You will rarely make the money they brag about and the information the recruiters and trainers give when you start, is nothing like the actual schedule and job. If you’re not working overtime, you’re not making money and management constantly changes their requirements and lead flow. When it comes down to it, management and corporate managers truly don’t care about the work/home-life balance for their employees. Their services are overly priced and they can’t keep quality tutors because they don’t pay well and there is a huge disconnect in the various departments, so the clients suffer and oftentimes don’t stay with the company. If the company doesn’t focus on the customers they have now, they are going to lose money and employees at a higher rate than they already are now. Management can blame the employees all they want, but they set up their employees horribly and then blame them when the company doesn’t perform, which has been consecutively dropping over the last few months. They like to say it’s because of quick growth, but really it’s because of a huge lack of organization from upper management all the way down to the lack of concern for the employees at the sales/client manager position. The sales/client managers are all different in their management style and it becomes confusing when the expectations constantly change.

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