Palfish Reviews

3.0

43% would recommend to a friend

(336 total reviews)

26% positive business outlook

Palfish has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 336 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Palfish 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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336 reviews
3.0
7 July 2019

Good

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Flexible, good working hours, accept teachers from many countries.

Cons

Too many teachers, hard to get consistent bookings, app glitches, lots of fines for teachers if late/absent (even when due to glitches out of your control).

2.0
5 June 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Hourly rate increase based on the amount of classes you teach per month. A few teachers have become very successful here.

Cons

This is not a normal teaching job where you just focus on your students, the lesson, and teaching your classes effectively. Especially starting out, plan on spending hours weekly promoting yourself: reading books, creating content for lives, moments and videos. This is not paid, but if you do not do it, you will not get many bookings. It should be noted that this is a company that is very much about sales. I have seen teachers with terrible accents, who have minimal qualifications and little to no experience teaching get booked overnight because they were able to “sell” many packages after a trial. On the other hand, you’ll see qualified and experienced teachers with degrees struggling to get any bookings, because they haven’t sold a package. This doesn’t make any sense, but it’s the name of the game here.

1.0
7 Dec 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Easy to join little or no qualifications and teaching experience required (can also be a con). Many people have an opportunity to teach. Provides all teaching materials.

Cons

Very poor and confused communication. Responds to only a fraction of messages from teachers asking help to teach better. Answers are often short with little useful information. Very high penalties upon teachers and takes a very high cut from teachings earnings. Took more than half of mine.\ Seems to be quickly becoming greedy for the sake of increasing profits and treating loyal teachers very badly and unfairly to achieve this. Often incompetent and disorganised. Portrays an image of being untrustworthy. Shows signs of racism, ageism and other forms of discrimination towards teachers. Uses a lot of misleading propaganda on Facebook and YouTube. Ignores complaints for teachers with problems.

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