Worst job I've ever had - Sales Consultant Varsity Tutors Employee Review

1.0
28 Jul 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You work from home, the interview process is short, willing to hire people with little to no sales experience

Cons

Where to start... Everyone has to work one day during the weekend, and there are 6 possible schedules all of which suck to varying degrees and are oriented to Central Time, despite the fact that the company serves clients across the country and it's a remote position. Be prepared to work until 10pm some nights or starting at 6am depending on your time zone. You're working from home but it's basically the equivalent of working in a call center. Every second of your shift is monitored like an Amazon warehouse employee, you are basically told in so many words that you aren't allowed to go to the bathroom unless it's during one of your breaks (which, no, you don't get to choose when those are). They will schedule meetings or trainings during the middle of the day, which may or may not interfere with your scheduled breaks, so the onus is on you to move them, but you have to request every single change to your schedule and have it approved by someone who appears to get off on denying requests. Even when they ask you to schedule things on your own, such as self-guided training modules, they will tell you what times during your shift you are and are not allowed to schedule these. They do not seem to trust their employees at all, but also do not trust their customers to know what they want (e.g., when they say, I'm not interested in your services, VT does not believe them and insists that they really DO want our services). Pay sucks. Maybe like 5 sales people are making a decent living but there's no way it's more than that. Also, they'll tell you that you won't be making cold calls, but you definitely will; not only because a lot of the leads you're calling are no longer interested but VT refuses to take them off their call list, but then they will literally make you cold call past clients, including those who have left bad reviews. Also there is zero effort to accommodate for Spanish-speaking customers. There is no Spanish-speaking team, zero attempt to utilize AI (which they are obsessed with) to assist non-Spanish speakers with helping these customers. Feels like they are not taken as seriously as English speaking customers.

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5.0
6 Apr 2026
Recommend
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Pros

You choose your schedule and are able to preselect topics you are able to tutor.

Cons

You must advertise yourself in order to start receiving tutoring opportunities.

4.0
9 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Create your own work plan and schedule

Cons

The pay is low and finding tutoring opportunities at the beginning is a bit difficult.

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