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Updated May 16, 2022
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Top Review Highlights by Sentiment
- "Flexibility; thorough training and support; people are personable and human even though you only deal with them through phone/email." (in 5 reviews)
- "The Smarthinking writer tutor position offers a flexible schedule, and it could serve as a way for new tutors or teachers to gain experience." (in 3 reviews)
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- Current Employee, more than 10 years★★★★★
Pros
Flexible schedule, excellent management, superior resources, great benefits
Cons
pay could be a tad higher
- Current Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
Working from home, flexible hours
Cons
Little room to advance, ridiculously low pay for desired credentials
Continue reading - Former Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
The schedule is flexible, so it works well as a 2nd job.
Cons
The amount of work they expected you to complete in the time they alloted you to complete it was next-to impossible. Coupled with the ridiculously low compensation rate for a job that requires an advanced degree, it's a pretty insulting job.
- Former Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Pros
Flexible hours, tutoring experience to get in the door
Cons
Few hours, arbitrary assessments, change in schedule and lead tutor every term, no communication
Continue reading - Current Employee, more than 8 years★★★★★
Pros
Flexible schedule with a nice team of supervisors
Cons
Lack of advancement once promoted to lead
- Former Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Pros
You can work from home.
Cons
I worked for Smarthinking for four years and it was awful. They don't give out raises unless you earn a graduate degree, and even then it's only a one-dollar raise. I should think a graduate degree, such as a PhD, is worth more than a dollar. The lead tutors are always nitpicking everything. I got in trouble once for not greeting a student in the right way. We're expected to provide very detailed feedback in just thirty minutes, but it's hard to do that if we're forced to read 10-15 page papers on topics we know nothing about. And they say that we supposedly only have to read ten pages, but that we should try to finish anyway. It's a crappy job and I'm willing to bet they make tons of money off the backs of the tutors they exploit. Regular tutors can make $20 an hour, so it's insane how they only pay us 10-12 an hour. The lead tutors always nitpicked every aspect of my markups, even though I consistently got good feedback from students on my markups. Also they often pressure us to drop our hours if there aren't enough essays, and if we won't do it, then they respond by forcing us to do it anyway or cutting our hours without our consent.
Continue reading - Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Remote work (can work at home); some paid sick leave, etc.
Cons
Low pay. Experienced tutors with master's and PhD degrees are paid 11 or 12 dollars in many instances, with zero raises given (not even a penny).
Continue reading - Current Employee, more than 5 years★★★★★
Pros
Work from home with complete flexibility with hours.
Cons
As with all work at home jobs, the lack of human interaction can be frustrating.
Continue reading - Former Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
As a part-time online writing tutor, I liked how this job had flexibility in terms of scheduling, the ability to complete each day's required hours whenever was convenient, and the ability to work from home.
Cons
First of all, the pay is very low considering you are required to have a M.A. or a Ph.D. to do online writing tutoring work that undergraduates do (for the same or even higher pay) at campuses all over the country. More upsetting to me, though, was the complete inflexibility of the tutoring process. With strict time limits and a rigid structure for how each paper review had to be conducted, I never felt like I was doing my best work. Some papers are short with minimal issues that can certainly be treated effectively in half an hour with 2-3 highlighted areas for improvement, but the same cannot be said of many other essays. This structure is not useful for the tutors or, more importantly, the writers who have submitted their work for feedback. I also did not appreciate that the contract for this part-time, low-paying position prohibits accepting other tutoring jobs, not only while actively employed, but for one year after employment ends.
Continue reading - Current Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
You work from home and get to use your advanced English degrees for something.
Cons
Smarthinking/Pearson is never happy with anything you do. All the advice is contradictory. They cannot keep up with the minimum wage laws in most areas.
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Smarthinking has an overall rating of 3.2 out of 5, based on over 94 reviews left anonymously by employees. 53% of employees would recommend working at Smarthinking to a friend and 50% have a positive outlook for the business. This rating has improved by 7% over the last 12 months.
53% of Smarthinking employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews. Employees also rated Smarthinking 3.9 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.1 for culture and values and 2.0 for career opportunities.
According to reviews on Glassdoor, employees commonly mention the pros of working at Smarthinking to be coworkers, work life balance and the cons to be benefits, management, career development.
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