Pros
- You believe you can set your own schedule, but if you want to get a chance at getting booked you have to adhere to their peak hours and minimum allowed open slots. - You can work from home, if you actually do work at all
Cons
- Most of your training and communication with anyone at OKPanda during your interview, onboarding, and training consists of just warnings about all the different ways you can get in trouble with their company. If you make one mistake you're basically in trouble and will probably lose your job or at the very least lose some of your hard earned pay. They also have this whole elaborate system of rules you have to walk around on eggshells not to make a mistake ever. - The pay is extremely insulting and low, for ANY kind of teaching job out there both online and in person. They don't respect the teachers at all. They must think teachers are expendable and not crucial to building a sustainable and successful company. The pay is $3.50 for every 25 minutes of teaching although they claim to pay up to $10. If you're worthy of getting paid the $10, you're likely way over qualified and wouldn't put up with this crap in the first place. - The company seems to only benefit the founders, and people that don't have to teach for a living for OKPanda. They all seem happy and fine with everything because they aren't living on minimum wage and not at the mercy of a bad employer. If you raise any questions about the way things are, they just want you to believe like there's something wrong with your views and not their business model and culture. - My interview was held by a headquarter employee online with, who was really arrogant and smug. He likes to think he's smarter than you and talk to you that way during the entire interview. Really set the tone for how the company looks at teachers. - During training they have hours of reading, videos, and quizzes. The quiz is extremely frustrating and I believe it's their intention to be frustrating on purpose so you have to memorize their insane policies and rules. Stop wasting our time. - You have to wait up to weeks/months until you can get enough work enough to make any kind of money if you stay that long. We work so we can pay our bills, we don't work so we can grow your company for you. Even teaching 40 hours a week (unlikely you will ever get that many booked students), you're still making minimum wage.