Princeton Review Reviews

Pros

Very flexible work hours, pick the jobs you want to take and don't take the ones you don't want. Reasonable- great pay, I would recommend this company even if you want to work as just a proctor.

Cons

There is a lot of prepping involved if you want to to teach a class, which could take longer than you are compensated. Management and clear instructions are sometimes lacking.

Pros

Flexibility of hours is good.

Cons

Complete lack of support from office
Right hand doesn't know what left is doing
No technical training

Pros

They are very flexible, the pay is alright, the freedom they provide teachers is generous.

Cons

The material is only so so, the pay isn't as good as comparable places and is downright bad when compared to others.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay teachers more so they care more.

Pros

Smart people and good business decisions

Cons

Sometimes short staffed due to cost savings

Advice to Senior Management

Continue hiring the best and managing effectively

Pros

The biggest pro is the flexibility to work only when you want to. Also, there is very little supervusio on your teaching which is very liberating if you know what you're doing.

Cons

The company does not protect or reward it's teachers. They will look for ways to weasel out of giving you raises. Also, student complaints are overly weighted and not thoroughly investigated, basically if a student complains you're screwed, valid or invalid

Advice to Senior Management

Make working at the company fun. If you want to recruit and keep good teachers, you have to take care of them.

Pros

Fun work environment, everyone is cheerful and whiling to help. You are able to communicate with upper level management. It was a good experience for a college student like me

Cons

Pay is not very high. you have to suck up a lot and some the work could get boring sometimes.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay your employees more. and improve training and development programs. A lot of underused and unappreciated talent. Management needs to develop more.

Pros

Flexible
Can decline work if needed

Cons

Not enough training
Sell false hopes to people

Advice to Senior Management

Had 'manadatory' meetings a lot. I taught one course and did some other random assignments. I am not coming out for 'mandatory' meetings.

Pros

There are quite a few intelligent people throughout the company, and working with students is often very gratifying.

Cons

The pay is extremely low in general, but definitely so when considering the workload and expectations put upon the employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat those with experience and success as if you would like to keep them around, instead of tiptoeing around people who have little to no tenure with the company.

Pros

Great first job, I was given plenty of responsibility and learned a lot about managing people. There are also many opportunities for advancement within the company.

Cons

Things were very disorganized sometimes. The server for all the students and courses is on a very outdated system and there were lots of problems with it.

Advice to Senior Management

The software that stores the database of students and teachers needs a major overhaul, it is very outdated and inefficient.

Pros

Flexible work schedule
Great opportunities other than core teaching work to make money through essay grading, etc.
Fun training
Managers do great job of making a community around teachers through parties, etc.
Overall great opportunity to make decent wages for college or graduate students

Cons

Somewhat misleading pay because the amount of time it takes to prepare to teach courses is uncompensated

Advice to Senior Management

Keep doing what you're doing and adapt to the times