HeyTutor Reviews

3.4

71% would recommend to a friend

(307 total reviews)

Jennifer Sheffield

39% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

HeyTutor has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 307 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The HeyTutor 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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307 reviews
2.0
4 Mar 2019
Recommend
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Pros

This is a good short-term entry level position if you are looking for something to get your resume started. It is a home office rather than a traditional commercial office space.

Cons

Management hires in quantity and pays low to weed out employees within the first few weeks if you will be beneficial to them. There is not much training aside from a brief rundown of how the system works and management will make you feel poorly in front on entire working space if you do something incorrectly. Manager often times will guilt trip you into working overtime and coming in on the weekends, because the work is never ending and they are more focused on sales to be bringing in the money and having operations fulfill empty promises to clients who spend thousands of dollars. Much of the day is spent talking clients out of refunds with fake refund policies and just stringing them along hoping to buy enough time to find them a tutor. They claim to have a "chill" work environment, but employees are quiet and always on edge as they fear they will get fired at any time. Group gatherings feel awkwardly forced to appear that the team gets along, but no one actually sticks around other than management. I have also witnessed several unethical and illegal practices, which is in part due to ignorance and other part greed. The company is run by a bunch of 20-somethings who are more focused on satisfying their own egos than the success of creating a strong team of employees.

1.0
10 Oct 2020
Recommend
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Pros

The compensation structure was fair, and the flexibility of scheduling they permitted was good, especially for a full-time position.

Cons

For starters, they misrepresented the position from day one. They claimed to be hiring for customer service representatives, and then spent every day I worked there reminding us that our job was not to provide service, it was to make sales and ensure a profit for the company. We were not merely encouraged but flat-out instructed to lie to prospective leads and clients, informing them that we were a "local business" in their hometowns instead of working out of a call center in Los Angeles. Although this practice has since changed, we were also at first told to always say we had in-person tutors available and could provide them no problem (after processing the hefty fee charged, of course), with no knowledge of the actual number of available tutors in a lead's area or if there were any at all. Communication and feedback from management was aggressive and created a culture of fear among employees. "Team meetings" were little more than rants from the CEO. This became even worse with COVID, when schedules were cut to part-time back to full-time back to part-time again with little warning. Layoffs abounded, and management's expectations for those who remained doubled while the actual workforce was more than halved. Concerns about the business's future were not taken seriously and blamed on a lack of "hustle" on employees' parts.

1.0
9 Jan 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The work environment and staff.

Cons

Literally everything. Management is horrible. HR was nonexistent. They fire people at the drop of a hat. They do not pay people on time. Fired all remote staff and office got infected with COVID shortly after

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