Pros
Great materials pay on time good kids
Cons
Lack of professionalism. This company is very far behind in developing their teachers to become better both personally on a mature level and professionally as the behavior shows up in management. Getting wasted, petty-minded issues, and gossip are the priority. Personalities are often secretly silenced out of fear and insecurity among Management and bad character, negative behavior, and poor judgement runs amok and flourishes in the company among Management as they impose double standards. If you don't silence your personality and don't get acquainted with the judgment and narrative of what they want you to be to satisfy their ego and comfort zones, then Management will start harassing and annoying you in childlike ways and will cause numerous intentional conflicts in your work environment simply because you did not fall in line with the personality that they wanted you to be as if you are supposed to be hired to serve a different purpose outside of teaching and outside of your contract. Lack of taking full responsibility and accountability for their own reckless negligence, actions, positions, and behavior among management is normal. Definitely a high school and popularity contest feeling in this company instead of getting the job done and doing it well. Unfortunately, it seems like Management is incompetent and don't really know how to properly manage and lead people as everything is focused and centered around trivial and childish issues. Your students in all of your classes put together may only cause 10% of all of your behavioral issues and problems while Management will cause 90% as you wouldn't expect fully grown adults who are supposed to be role models to lose their personal bearings and act worse than the combination of all of your kids that are put into all of your classes. When you come here, professionalism and ethical behavior gets thrown out the window. Just because the company is growing and pays on time does not mean that it is going to help you grow and develop you and your skills on a professional level. When you finish the company, don’t ask yourself, how have you grown as a teacher. You can learn anything from anybody. And you certainly don’t need a manager or academic coordinator to teach you how to get drunk. Ask yourself, how have you grown as a professional. They use certain hidden tactics that is not easy to spot, but the end results always causes harm to the company further down the road like pitting people against each other, illegal and unlawful practices due to immaturity and ignorance, and dog whistling tactics to cover up, distract, and divert the attention of what some of those in Management are hiding and doing as a way to distract the teachers that are constantly complaining about their pay or teachers complaining about management and looking down on them. And some of that behavior among management is due to a multitude of things to include personal insecurities, pure boredom, wanting an increase in status growth, poor character judgement, and attention seeking from peers as some of them don't have enough work to do or don't feel like they have enough entertainment in their life. It seems like management tries to do everything they can to hire people and teachers overseas that are new. Management will plan to have a high turnover rate at the end of the year so that they don't have to make pay increases to 2-3 year teachers as staying past 2 years for a teacher is very rare in this company. Recruitment may show you a pay chart for teachers staying 3 to 5 years, but the number of teachers trying to reach that goal and being able to stay is less than 10% because the company does not want to make pay increases. However, the recruiters telling you how much you will make per an hour after taxes is another elusive question that they try to avoid. Visa Flight run to another country will be fully taken care of as they say, but it will be taxed and not fully reimbursed. And for heaven sakes, this is all for a $20 an hour teaching job after tax and after travel bonuses working mostly between 1-3 hours a day, 3 to 5 days a week in which you may have to travel past 7-20 kilometers in dangerous traffic just to get to your school to teach as there have been numerous traffic accidents on the job. In traffic, it will take atleast 1 to 1.5 hours to get there and 1 to 2 hours just to go home. Yet, they do all this unnecessary and avoidable stuff for $20 an hour teaching. Is it worth it? You do the math and see for yourself. To simplify it, by the time you plan the lesson, teach, and travel, you will be getting paid between $2 to $5 per an hour. And don't forget to double-check the errors that will be in your salary each and every month.