Base Pay Just Dropped, Sessions Feel Impossible to Coordinate - Online Tutor Cosmo Employee Review

3.0
16 Mar 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

* Decent pay rate considering its independent contract tutoring * Platform is pretty clean and easy to navigate. Plus, they recently updated it so all operations are done on the platform now * The people who run the company are really nice * The company tries to keep tutors in the loop at all times * Lots of supplementary materials for tutors to utlilize

Cons

* Base pay just dropped by $3 in favor of a bonus program * New bonus program is dependent entirely on the students and is out of the tutor's hands * Getting sessions scheduled has been a massive pain * The people who run the company are nice, BUT there is very little training on how to get sessions scheduled, how to find more students, or what help is available for tutors with fewer sessions * You're required to block off availability, but if you don't get any sessions in that time then you've just wasted precious workable hours on nothing

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5.0
10 Nov 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Provided with lessons that are easy to prep and live classroom app

Cons

Must have classes on the same time each week with the student; no benefit for contractor role

2.0
15 Sept 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Bank of lessons and questions allow you to meet the needs of 80% of students without additional preparation.

Cons

Lessons are not long enough to cover a 50 minute session, yet some students will not be ready to move to the next lesson. So an elementary school lesson of 7 slides will need to be heavily supplemented. Students who require more visuals or who have special needs take additional preparation. No prep time is paid. No training time, even in the required onboarding phase, is paid. The unpaid onboarding, in particular, is illegal.

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