horrific - Anonymous employee First Leap Employee Review

1.0
Dec 8, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

i cannot think of any

Cons

Mass American corporation that is a money making machine. There is no English teaching here. Foreigners are used as white entertainers, they have no real teacher training. The badly paid overworked Chinese staff to the actual teaching. Most Chinese staff rightly resent the foreigners. Most Chinese staff have an appalling level of English and are not good teachers. The Children's level of language compared to other schools is a joke. They have so many staff coming and going they do not care about individual teachers.They are racist in their hiring strategies. White British/American only. I'm embarrassed to say I worked there. I wish I'd read a review like this before. There are much better teaching opportunities out there.

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8y
Thank you for your review. I would like to clarify a couple of points you raised. First Leap is a Chinese corporation. Recently the company merged with a larger corporation, also Chinese, called TAL. TAL is floated on the American Stock Exchange but remains a Chinese company. While there is a difference in pay between international and Chinese staff (which is common across the board with English training schools), Chinese staff are paid the industry market rate in China. Lastly, we currently have a variety of nationalities. While most international employees are British, we also employee around 10 other nationalities, of different ethnicities. I do not know your working location, or whether you worked within the corporate or franchise structure but I feel your experience is an anomaly.

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