LearningRx Reviews

Current Employee – been working at LearningRx part-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Always interesting and challenging work. Helps your own mental skills as well as that of the students. Get the satisfaction of seeing students improve over time, often dramatically. Bonuses and admin hours paid on top of the hours you are training. Open attitude to suggestions/changes.

Cons – Usually part time work, exact hours can't be guaranteed due to the nature of the work.

Current Employee – been working at LearningRx full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Interesting work, fun to sell. It's meaningful to know that you're changing people's lives through brain training. I think the majority of the change happens with kids pushing themselves through the exercises, rather than their brains drastically changing.

Cons – Not as sophisticated as it's made out to be. Corporate usually influences franchisees to hard-sell. It's frustrating to be a franchisee because you make such little money. If you are a franchisee you only make about 5-8% profit on a program. Sometimes less. Also, it can get really frustrating to look for a new client every time.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at LearningRx

Pros – Pay is great for a part-time job.

Cons – Wish it was full time.

Current Employee – been working at LearningRx part-time for more than 7 years

Pros – hourly wage for part time work is descent.
flexible hours

Cons – tough to work more than 15 hours a week.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at LearningRx full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Seeing kids lives change, good parents and clients

Cons – Low pay, outside work required with no compensation

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at LearningRx

Pros – Excellent feedback from management, with frequent, helpful performance reviews. Management is always available to discuss issues and give helpful hints. Regularly scheduled "file reviews", where management and trainers asses the progress of clients' programs, are especially helpful. Management is also helpful regarding life-work balance, and fostering high moral among employees. Management also makes monthly meetings fun, interesting and helpful.

Cons – Unfair payment system. Trainers are underpaid based on the work that they do and the amount that clients pay (which is up to $10,000 for a program. You only get $1,560 of that!). You get no time before or after to do any kind of paperwork, but are not allowed to do this during a students session either. This is unreasonable, and just plain cheap.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep up the good work with positive feedback and performance reviews.

Review the payment system--we are paid less than half of what tutors at learning centers elsewhere are paid. We also are not paid for any scheduling or reviewing the program with clients' parents--an ESSENTIAL part of keeping your paying clients happy and coming back. Give us even 15 minutes paid before and after our shifts to do paperwork and talk to parents. "I don't pay you to do paper work" is an insult! If not for this, I would dedicate myself to this learning center!

Former Employee – worked at LearningRx

Pros – Very rewarding and I learned some great brain games to share with my students and my children someday.

Cons – The compensation is not high enough for the work done. They required their employees to attend monthly staff meeting or else they were told they would not receive their bonus. The staff meetings were full of long inspirational videos, and lectures on how to better your own life, they were rarely about improving your job training a student. Changes were then made to how bonuses were conducted (9/2010), without informing the employees in writing, and the changes basically resulted in little to no bonus for all the work an employee put into training a child. The bonuses are calculated based on how well the child tests in comparison to a national average. Some of these children have severe learning disorders, autism, ADD, ADHD, and even if they did show improvement in school, yet they didn't test well, you wouldn't receive a bonus. You have to hope to be paired with a smart student that tests well, in order to receive a bonus. Customers/students get a great deal being trained by really patient and fun trainers, yet the trainers are mislead, underpaid, and will waste a lot of their time with this company.

Advice to Senior Management – Be more open and informative with changes made to salaries and bonuses. Ask your employees what they think of the new bonus system in place, see if they feel this is fair, and turn in their responses to your headquarters. Return emails and phone calls regarding your employees concerns, instead of making them call and email 3-4 times before responding to their concern.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at LearningRx

Pros – Fun work environment, positive and friendly.

Cons – Pay very poor, working more hours than can record. Only billable hours are paid. Too many variables to impede outcome, bonuses very rare.

Advice to Senior Management – I was uncomfortable with testing outcomes which were presented more favorable to the client than seemed truthful.

Former Employee – worked at LearningRx

Pros – Kids were motivated and hopeful. "Method" more interesting than most non-traditional tutoring techniques. Free t-shirt! Those really are the only positive comments I have.

Cons – Three full days of unpaid training. Assigned students with no prior notice, then chided for not updating availability on a daily basis. Intense time investment for little pay (learning the "method" is quite difficult and requires a lot of extra time that is not compensated). Complicated tutoring system.

Advice to Senior Management – For three eight hour days, compensation- even minimum wage- needs to be offered. Lunch is not compensation! Notify tutors before assigning new students.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at LearningRx

Pros – All the fellow employees at my franchise are friendly, helpful, fun, energetic, and great at what they do. The management is always willing to stop what they are doing when you need attention, and always listen to concerns.

Cons – The scheduling doesn't allow for full-time, and there are sometimes long breaks in between clients with no pay. There is also a fairly low ceiling as far as promotion.

Advice to Senior Management – I would offer work that can be done in between clients so that employees would be able to make a full day's pay when at the center all day. I would praise them for recent improvements which have made the job all the more enjoyable (such as healthy snack choices in the break room, and team building activities.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend