Good Company That Keeps Getting Better - Online Tutor 9ichat Employee Review

5.0
Feb 24, 2016
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Pros

I have been with 9iChat for 18 months now. It is a young company that has definitely had its fair share of growing pains, but I've seen the company and management adapt, grow, and mature. I appreciate this as a tutor because I know that they are striving to not only serve their customers well, but also to serve their tutors well. -$15 per 50 minute class, which is really good pay. I'm a full-time student, and you cannot find any wages that high on campus -overall, really great students who love to learn -little preparation time, as once you learn the format, you will know how to teach a quality lesson using the materials 9iChat provides -freedom to set your own hours, and if you are good and receive wonderful reviews, your hours will fill up quickly -work from home, which makes the pay even better (no commute)

Cons

Management has hinted at updating the website in the past, and I hope they do it soon. The website and the entire process for tutoring, recording, sending the recordings, and tracking your hours works fine for now, but it would be great if it all became a seamless experience. I imagine that as the company grows more, this will be their primary concern.

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3.0
Feb 4, 2016
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Pros

Loved getting to talk to young professionals and students in China. They're a little shy at first, but really do want to practice their English. And once they start talking, the time flies by and the "tutoring" session is more just like helping someone practice English while getting to know them. Hours are flexible for the most part. You get to choose however much you want to work and as long as you give advance notice, you can take a week off for some other events in your life. Got paid $15 an hour.

Cons

Sometimes management would give me lessons outside the times that I said was available to tutor. While not terribly inconvenient, this job wasn't as flexible as it was promoted as. Also, there are certain weird transparency rules, such as not being allowed to exchange contact information with students, say what your occupation outside of tutoring is, and getting the occasional odd email from management telling us to comply quickly with a new policy. For example, the Chinese government doesn't allow anti-government rhetoric, so you have to be careful about what you say in recorded video lessons. And if a student asks you what your job outside of tutoring is, it's hard to navigate that field because 9ichat explicitly tells you to say that you are only a part-time tutor. They don't want their clients knowing that they employ college students even though we are well-qualified to teach English.

4.0
Sep 13, 2021
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Pros

Flexible schedule and lesson plans

Cons

There are not many hours offered

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