Pros
1) Helpful Supervisors. 2) Good lessons 3) Own teaching platform, which is very good 4) Little preparation required 5) Good hourly rate of pay 6) Company pays for bank charges 7) The students are a pleasure to teach
Cons
1) Some teachers have a lot of long term classes but most do not. 2) You can only take three days holiday a month. Take any more and you have to pay a penalty (future classes may also be reduced as a result of taking "unathorised leave".) 3) Only two hours a day available for teaching (although I hear this may increase in the future) 3) Recent changes in the way the KPI score is calculated means that it is now extremely difficult to get the monthly bonus. The KPI score is mostly based on how many classes you have taken during the month (but many teachers have low bookings, despite high availability). 4) Many supervisors have left the company recently. I'm on my forth supervisor since October which is similar to many other teachers. 5) Too many teachers were hired in recent months. Many teachers were recently told that they were suspended or no longer have a job. (However Panda still seems to be hiring). The company says that they expect many new students to join soon, but not much evidence of this so far. 6) Company seems a little unstable, let's hope things improve soon!
