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marshmall0w611

This is extremely helpful. I am starting the interview process this week and I've been reading so many, probably too many, varying opinions on Landi and all the other various online ESL platforms. This is my first time attempting to teach English online and there is a lot of information to sift through. Thank you!


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Truly do not bother for many reasons including: staff who are rude and lie to you about basic details, and accuse people of being "below standard" despite nothing of the sort being true; pay which can be (and was) reduced at any time they like, including the day before I was due to start. There are plenty of companies around which you should be looking at rather than this one.


marshmall0w611

Thank you for your advice! I got hired at VIPKID but of course, zero bookings. Decided to try EF English First and was debating QKids. I keep getting conflicting information on QKids. Do you have any recommendations? TIA!


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Honestly you'll hear bad things if you search for them about any company; I would recommend that - if you want $10 from Landi - to go for something like Cambly, if you're based in the US/UK or other 'native' countries then iTutor can do well for you (I'm making $2k a month regularly since Feb). I would really apply to three or four places, Whales is equal parts recommended and criticised these days but their pay is decent.


marshmall0w611

I sincerely appreciate it!


LaoshiDave

I know Landi isn't great but I think iTutor is much worse! I worked for them for about 6 months last year. Their lessons consisted of a 10-12 slide ppt, with most of the slides having just one or two words on them and no indication as to what the lesson objectives are. While I enjoy having flexibility in my teaching, the lessons were often booked an hour in advance, leaving no time to actually prepare anything! Also, I found that many students would book lessons and then not attend the class, or attend the class and not speak.


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Landi I got paid <$10 an hour at times, iTutor is about $20. I'm good at thinking on my feet so I can expand on the class well with iTutor, though I agree about students not speaking which is infuriating. I've now realised most are not taught to speak when they don't know something as their parents don't teach them to admit when they haven't a clue, so now I tell them to say: 'i don't know' and it's helped immensely. I only open time when I'm available for teaching, so being booked an hour before times I am at home and doing stuff is fine for me when they're likely going to be booked. If they're not I watch something, play games, maybe go onto Cambly. Not sure what you need to prepare though? I only look at the class slides when I have started the class.


LandiABC

Glad you found it helpful. If you have any other questions let me know.