Lacking in benefits for staff - high turnover of staff - Anonymous employee Tutorful Employee Review

1.0
15 Mar 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Honestly, the only nice thing about Tutorful is the team, though the turnover of staff is so high and the atmosphere in the office so stale it's hard to forge good relationships with your colleagues.

Cons

The company lures employees in with the promise of a 'cool' start up and promises a positive, forward thinking ethos. Unfortunately this is so forced by the management that it grinds employees down. The managers also do not practice what they preach as they are often arguing in the open for everyone to see, only adding to the negative mood. It is also never clear what is expected of you as the goalposts keep moving; you can be told you're doing great one day and walk in the next day to a disciplinary hearing. That being said, the company has no real sense of a disciplinary procedure and I would argue that their methods are not in line with statutory guidelines. People doing the same job are also on differing salaries and the managers offer no logical reason for this. There are also very few paths to progression unless you are one of the favourites of the CEO - and even these are getting fewer and further between. Above all, the management expect you to give 110% every single day while offering little in return. The benefits are some of the worst I've seen at a start up - let's be realistic, a bottle of beer on a Thursday afternoon doesn't make up for the lack of secure benefits like a good pension and sick pay.

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1.0
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Pros

The site allows a broadband geographic reach for online tutors.

Cons

I have worked via this site for 5 years and over that time the overheads have increased from 20% of fees to over 50%. This has been done unilaterally without discussion. The site allows students to book lessons without consultation whereas many tutors like myself want control of the booking process to allow proper time management and to ensure only students you think are appropriate to your skill set take up time slots.. If you cancel a student booked lesson the site now blocks your profile for 10 days. The site no longer notifies you of contacts from new students and penalises you if you are slow to respond. The overall impression is of an organisation obsessed with revenue and its own interests rather than acting as a support to its tutors despite the increasingly high overhead burden they impose.

2.0
30 Mar 2026
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Pros

Tutoring platform that lets you set schedule

Cons

Didn't contact me for weeks after my application, until I contacted them first where they decided to tell me what changes to make.

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