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ALTA Language Services Reviews

4.0

89% would recommend to a friend

(26 total reviews)

Robert Jones

90% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

ALTA Language Services has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 26 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The ALTA Language Services employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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26 reviews
1.0
15 Oct 2018

Their tests are low quality

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Flexibility, easy on-boarding, and a timely paycheck.

Cons

Some of their tests are created by sub-par language instructors. Even after multiple attempts to fix mistakes, management never took it up seriously. Their Uzbek reading test is utter nonsense. Even after multiple native speaking test-takers have complained, management never reviewed nor tried to fix the existing gaps. They have similar problems in other languages as well.

4.0
4 June 2016
Recommend
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Pros

The staff is great. The culture is awesome. And there is a lot of support from the staff along with flexibility. The best part about this company is that there is a lot of transparency between upper management and staff.

Cons

None that I can really think of. I mean, everyone has their own office and the location is great. You work right across the street from a MARTA station and then Lenox Mall. You are not micromanage by anyone and the company culture is relaxed.

2.0
10 July 2013

Inlingua is only good for very new teachers.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

FYI: all of the below is directed especially at prospective teachers. I studied education at university and worked professionally before deciding to travel and work in other countries; Inlingua is one of the schools I've worked for. If you really need money, you can get a job "teaching" your native language there. If you're new to the teaching game, you can get face-to-face with small groups or single students, gain some in-person experience, and try out strategies, activities, resources, etc. (but you can easily do this at any other franchise school too).

Cons

If you consider yourself anything close to a professional teacher, you will most definately be disappointed: this school does not offer or pay for quality education. For reasons that are never overtly stated, they pay little, and they pay (sometimes very) late - do NOT underistimate how much this will affect you. If you work for this school, then you're a freelancer, and if you're a freelancer, you need to be smart when scheduling courses - the nature of this school's customers means you will likely find yourself working very inconvenient hours, which in turn means you may have problems when better opportunities (read: course offers (from other schools)) come along. This last point probably depends on who's managing the school in your location, but based on my own experience, this school has literally no educational program other than handing a series of books to the teacher, and letting him/her teach classes for as long as the students don't complain.

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