Amslink Reviews

If something goes wrong, it's always the teachers' fault. TAs are frequently incompetent, and the teachers are punished for it. Base salary is lower than other centers in theory because they give you a bonus, but it's super arbitrary. Management introduces regulation after regulation for nonexistent problems just so they can punish you for it later through the bonus system. When problems arise and you've followed all of their arcane regulations, no one is willing to work with you or provide any help in spite of what they say. The introduction of student reports has been unbelievably shoddy and unfair, and it's obvious they do not care whatsoever about the quality of your teaching. Any input teachers provide is totally ignored. Teachers are dropping left and right, and it's a really unhappy place to be right now.

The company is going through a stage of expansion and it's become very apparent that their attitude to teaching is that of quantity over quality. When I first joined, all the teachers that I met were content with their positions and there was barely any critique to offer. However, now the mood has duly changed and it's now becoming the norm for teachers to leave their contracts and find better work elsewhere. Some specifics I don't like: - There can be mind-numbing bureaucracy in trying to find just simple information to help you. - The KPI monthly bonus is used as a punitive tool to deny you a full salary. They will always cherry pick and find something that wasn't quite perfect. - The have now fired all of their full-time TA's and instead hired an army of part-time (university students who they can pay less) to step in. Most of whom simply don't care for the progress of their students and rarely have everything prepared for the lesson.