unprofessional and disrespectful - Anonymous employee Native Camp Employee Review

1.0
27 Nov 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Well, no pros, I tried to join them as an online English teacher, but failed the demo lesson. I could not see the examiner, during the lesson the unprofessionalism of the examiner reflected through her chit-chat and laughing with inmates (I have no idea if she is at the office or at home), from time to time she muted herself and I must observe that she is lacking knowledge, because word 'vegetables' can be pronounced in two ways. Furthermore, she did not let me to finish the demo lesson according to prior instructions and advised me that I should be more personal with students, that is how I understood it, while on the other hand, in the written instructions that should be read before the demo lesson, it says that we should avoid asking students too many questions and chit-chat, unless he/she initiates it and shows interest in it. I don't feel bad about failing at all, but I think that the examiners should be more competent and businesslike. At the end of the demo lesson, a person who was in the room with the examiner exclaimed the name of my country in a very ambiguous intonation.

Cons

They do not seem professional at all.

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The platform is easy to use, and lesson types are diverse. They follow common themes that even a novice teacher could learn quite quickly. If you are a good teacher, within 60 days you can easily have many regular students. I enjoy teaching on this platform more than any other I have used.

Cons

Being out of Japan, the Yen is doing very poorly, so you will not make much money here. $4.00 for a 25-minute lesson that requires a follow-up message and review for the student. Add in the normal wait times of 5 to 15 minutes between lessons and you are making around $5.00 per hour. If you work diligently and receive few bookings you can make around $500 a week, but it is a grind. The one glaring negative about the platform is that is not designed to allow you to promote upward. If you don't have 50 bookings in 2 weeks, you will not be promoted. This resets every 2 weeks. There are 100s and 100s of teachers unable to be promoted because of this ridiculous threshold. You can have 1000 lessons all 4 and 5-star reviews, with students sending more than 500 messages of appreciation and you will not improve in rank. Just so you know, level 2 gives you $0.25 more per lesson. what?????

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