Too many scorers and not enough shifts - Scoring Leader ETS Employee Review

3.0
Jul 31, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Decent pay for what it is ($15/hr for SAT Scorers and $17.25/hour for SAT Shift Leaders) - Friendly Colleagues and Leaders - Simple platform to score on (easy to learn it) - Large, well known company

Cons

- Mismanagement of hiring. I was told from internal staff they hired on 10,000 additionally raters in 2017!! Major overkill and left seasoned employees like myself with ONE 4-hour shift every month or none at all. Absolutely killed morale. - Secretive internal employees that reply like robots and have zero personality (I've never had a "problem" with any of them but it gives ETS that frigid, corporate feel. - Scheduling system is a joke. They don't approve shifts until literally right before that month starts which I eventually got used to but if they added you to a shift at the last minute, there was no phone call or email advising you that you're on that day. So unorganized and as a leader I can't tell you how many times raters showed up late or I had to chase them down via multiple phone/ email contacts because they simply didn't know they were working. Ridiculous. - No health coverage, retirement, PTO, etc if you're looking for that (I wasn't as I hold a full time job outside of this but if it matters...) But it's to be expected when staff are only working 4 hours a month or less.

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Pros

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Cons

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