Pros
There are no pros to working for an illegitimate company.
Cons
I am sorry to report that I believe this company to be a scam. Jobs For Editors is actually a front for Uvocorp, a company that writes fake papers for paying students to pass off as their own coursework. Uvocorp is located somewhere abroad (they do not disclose their location, but it appears to be associated with Eastern Europe), and they recruit native English-speaking editors from the United States to provide professional editing services, without legitimate compensation, under the guise of remote freelance work. The fact that Uvocorp is located abroad allows them to take advantage of unsuspecting U.S. professionals by effectively dodging all employment and jurisdictional laws. In other words, the company is free to operate according to illegitimate and arbitrary practices. As such, I believe the positive reviews here are fake, and it is clear from the grammatical mistakes contained therein that these reviews are not written by native English speaking editors. Personally, I would not want my documents edited by the people who have written these reviews.
Here is how I came to understand the true practices of this company: I was "hired" by this company after completing a multiple choice test, providing a practice edit, and participating in a Skype interview. The recruiters are very friendly and quick to respond, which creates a positive first impression. They are supposedly based in London, yet all of their representatives are non-native English speakers. Eastern European text appeared in some of the emails I received from the so-called London-based staff.
Here's where things took a bad turn: I was told to complete a two-week training program, at the end of which I would be paid a set amount before beginning the real work. I spent many hours every day for two weeks studying the materials provided, and I completed all of the exams with scores of 100%, as requested by the supervisor. At the end of the two-week training period, I was asked to complete a "practice edit." I completed the edit ahead of schedule and exactly according to the specifications of the training. Here I will interject to state that I have professional experience working as an editor for a prominent academic journal in the U.S., and some of Uvocorp's editing practices contradict industry standards, but I completed the edit according to the company's rules nontheless. Shortly thereafter, I received a message stating that I had "failed" the practice edit and was being let go from the company. Because I hadn't technically completed the training (even though I did all the work), I was dismissed unpaid. In other words, the company received free work from me, a professional, by terminating our relationship on the final step of the training. As you can imagine, this was a very frustrating position to be in.
In summary, I have lost about three weeks of time to this unsavory company, with no income to show for it, and now I must search for another job.
