There aren't really any advantages.
They charge parents high tuition fees while employing teachers with ordinary academic qualifications.
For that amount, you could hire a better private tutor.
I don't understand why any parents would still want to send their students there.
New teachers who are going for an interview should also think it over carefully.
At the initial interview, they say that people without experience will receive training and so on, but it's all just talk.
They send you straight onto the battlefield. After all, all they care about is collecting money.
A very stable six-day workweek
One of the two weekend days is changed into four hours of overtime at the company through a flexible-hours arrangement
Employees are forced to exchange overtime for compensatory leave
Leaving work at 10 p.m. every Friday
Starting work at 8:30 a.m. every Saturday
The schedule is so stable that even your physical health becomes abnormal
No matter how long you work, you always earn the minimum wage
New hires come in earning the same as me
They call it performance-based salary adjustments
But in reality, they are avoiding adjustments required by the Labor Standards Act by restructuring salaries—an increase in name but a decrease in practice
In recent years, the boss has started promoting an educational system called “Sincerity”
They say it is to foster employee cohesion, but what they really want is to brainwash you
Employees are forced to attend so-called mindfulness and gratitude meetings and spiritual growth courses
The introductory course alone costs 23,000, and the company even says it can provide an interest-free loan?
If you do not attend, you are considered unmotivated and unwilling to change
But the courses are actually mass brainwashing sessions
Everyone who comes back after taking the course becomes increasingly strange and passive-aggressive; things only get worse
They also keep blaming others, saying that communication is difficult only because they did not attend the course
I have never seen such a terrible company in my life
I hope people with common sense can see this post before going to an interview
Colleagues are very willing to help one another.
If you are a complete beginner looking for training, you may consider it, but I strongly recommend leaving once you have gained some classroom experience, because the salary growth is extremely limited. If you are an experienced teacher, there is no need to consider it—look elsewhere. I have seen experienced teachers join and resign within just a few months; there must be a reason. Teachers who want training can give it a try, entirely because the other senior teachers will look after them and show them the ropes. It has nothing to do with the company.
The owner and supervisors make empty promises. After working there for several years, my base salary had increased by only 500. Buying shares in the company also requires a six-year commitment. The salary estimate posted on 104 is indeed accurate, but you need to pass many evaluations to receive it. Moreover, among the student headcounts used in the estimate above, only a very small number of senior teachers throughout the company could possibly reach those figures. There is also a retention-rate evaluation every quarter; if you fail it, you can only receive the base salary in the following quarter. The difference in pay is around 7,000–8,000, or even more.
The company seems to have a consulting firm advising it, so it absolutely will not violate the Labor Standards Act—but that also means it only meets the minimum standards. The salary is not very high, yet you still have to sign a two-year contract, and resigning before it ends requires you to pay a contractual penalty. Signing the contract comes with no additional bonus or raise. The company was clever enough to add a signing-bonus item to the salary structure, which means that excluding the signing-bonus item, the salary is roughly 23,000.
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A self-righteous piece-of-junk cram school
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Completing the interview does not mean you have been hired—even if you start work on your first day, they immediately begin asking you to submit documents!
On the first and second days, you have interviews with the top boss. The boss keeps asking questions as if they are very self-important, which makes people feel extremely uncomfortable!
They will directly criticize you for not being good enough, for being unqualified, and for lacking ability.
They think they are being very open-minded when talking with you (note that this means talking for two evenings, an enormous waste of time), but in reality, they simply question you until you are unable to respond, then conclude that you will accomplish nothing in the future.
The top boss wants teachers who are eloquent, not teachers with professional skills.
Even if you get through these two days, there is then three weeks of unpaid training. Is the Ministry of Labor allowed to let them do this?
After the unpaid training ends, there is a one-month probationary period during which NT$3,000 is deducted from the base salary, so you receive only NT$24,000 in the first month.
The advertised NT$27,000 is actually wages plus non-wage compensation, thereby lowering the insured salary amount!
If you receive an interview invitation, ignore it. Do not waste your time!!!!!!!!