Prompt Reviews

3.9

75% would recommend to a friend

(38 total reviews)
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Brad Schiller

75% approve of CEO

75% positive business outlook

Prompt has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 38 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Prompt employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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38 reviews
5.0
11 Jul 2022

Really great place to work at

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

1. Friendly team and general atmosphere 2. Good learning experiences

Cons

The nature of the business is seasonal Small team

1.0
25 Jun 2022

Developer

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Not good, not so bad

Cons

You can join the company

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Prompt Response
3y
Hi. Brad here, Founder/CEO of Prompt. I'm sorry you had a bad experience working with us. We pride ourselves on providing growth opportunities for each employee to achieve their goals. We work in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment. And we work together to set expectations and goals with each employee.
1.0
30 Jun 2021
Recommend
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Pros

-Decent pay per essay -Lots of work available June-January -Some flexibility

Cons

Working at prompt is not what it used to be. Management wants highly skilled and trained employees but doesn't provide the assurances and compensation to match. Used to be flexible, but now they don't want you to take more than two days off at a time (aka no more than a standard weekend!). They expect you to be *available* to work during these times, but no compensation if, for instance, there's no work to do. Time reading emails, responding to messages, updating your schedule, and paperwork are UNPAID, which is usually done during working hours at any other job Work expectations keep changing without proper communication. Coaches cannot keep up with all the changes. Online platforms and products are also constantly changing without much explanation. Prompt is growing rapidly, but it is clear they cannot keep up with the demand. It has the potential to be a great part-time job with happy employees, but there seem to be organization issues at the top. They might have many clients coming in, but I don't think this company will last long given the disorganization, constant technical issues, and questionable payment practices. Management used to be supportive when answering questions. Recently, they're rude and exasperated. Definitely signs of disorganization or other problems higher up.

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Prompt Response
4y
Hi. Thanks for your response. I'm writing to clear up a few things. I'll start by saying – we're growing very quickly, as you've astutely pointed out. We're working hard to improve in many areas – from technology to communications to more support for our writing coaches. But, not everything can happen overnight. The rest of the team and I are here for you. We're dedicating all of our time to making everything run smoothly. You can reach out to us at any time – brad@prompt.com. Flexibility. We've never been a traditional 9 to 5 job. We're here to serve our student customers. They're doing the work on nights and weekends. And so are we. We promise to provide essay feedback within 48 hours (2 days). So, our coach policy doesn't allow for scheduling two or more days off in a row without requesting time off. You can request time off two or more weeks in advance. This allows us to set customer expectations and schedule students. Since we strive for a one-to-one relationship (each student works with one coach), we need to know our coach's schedules. Income guarantee. When we provided the option to transition to part-time W2 from 1099, we included an income guarantee ($18k or $9k – your choice based on the amount of work you desired). We did this to provide you with the confidence work will be available. If work isn't available, we'll make up the difference. But, we also know this is a variable job, but with working hour flexibility within the day and week. Most of our work requires assigning specific students to each coach. We expect our coaches to complete the assigned essays. We don't control when students submit essays as much as we'd like. So, sometimes many essays that are exclusive to you can come in one day with relatively few another day. Our systems work to level the demand some for you. But, we know it can never be perfect. Our goal is to work how students work. Compensation. We know there are some tasks coaches are increasingly doing (e.g., responding to student questions) that are not compensated directly by the current structure. We have been working out a plan to improve this part. Our goal is to always compensate our coaches for the time spent. If you had reached out, we would have let you know we've been thinking about this and requested your input. You can expect we'll announce something soon.
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