cambly.com

2.6
2.6 Based on 176 reviews

Cambly gives you instant access to native English speakers over video chat, so you can learn and gain confidence!...

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Rhett
Cambly are a dreadful company to work…

Cambly are a dreadful company to work for. No pay increase since the company started and for most people the pay is way below minimum wage. They promise many things to students that don’t match the tutors they employ, many of whom have zero teaching qualifications or experience. They make unnecessary changes constantly which confuse and annoy tutors and students alike and are rapidly developing a blame culture where everything is the tutor’s fault. Unless you’re truly desperate avoid this company like the plague.

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Date of experience: Sep 03, 2024
Gage Cook
Poor company

Poor company. Reasonable resources, but it must do better to look after its teachers. I have been increasingly concerned by the general morale of its hard working teachers. I’d highly recommended using other platforms. Avoid Cambly!

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Date of experience: Sep 01, 2024
Milou250490
Cambly is on its way out

Cambly is on its way out. About to be swallowed up by actual serious ESL companies.

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Date of experience: Aug 29, 2024
Duane Barnes
I have worked for Cambly for 10 months

I have worked for Cambly for 10 months. Accumulated over 1000 students and averaged 10-12 classes a day 7 days a week. Priority hours were good at the start and I got a lot of reservations but the last month or so they have dwindled to almost zero. Today I was paid my salary and it was followed up with an email that they were deactivating my account. No reason given.

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Date of experience: Aug 21, 2024
Domenic Baker
No respect for tutors who are treated…

No respect for tutors who are treated as disposable. They have not increased pay in over ten years. Their advertising to students is basically false.

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Date of experience: Aug 18, 2024
Gabe Taylor
Horrible company

This absolutely terrible company pays well below most countries' minimum wage and hasn't made a single increase in years. It also makes a mockery of English teaching and to prospective students, I would say why sign up to learn English from people who are not qualified to do so? This company needs to be investigated.

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Date of experience: Aug 17, 2024
Lester Kelly
This moneyhungry company doesn’t care…

This moneyhungry company doesn’t care about their users. They underpay their employees and meanwhile they keep making the lessons more expensive for the students. The students pay quite a bit of money to do the lessons but the teachers only get a unacceptably small percentage of this money. This selfish company is NOT part of the people who want to make this world a better place.

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Date of experience: Aug 14, 2024
Don
This platform constantly increases…

This platform constantly increases their subscription fees but never increases the pay of their teachers!

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Date of experience: Aug 13, 2024
AB63
Despicable company

SLAVE WAGEAs many other tutors have already mentioned, the pay is absolutely abysmal. Cambly advertises that tutors can earn UP TO $10.20 USD per hour, but that is only if they are speaking with a student for the entire hour. Due to a decrease in student subscriptions, this is very unlikely, and most tutors are only earning around $5-$6 USD an hour. Even as a part-time job, this type of income is not sustainable or worth the effort.EXPENSIVE SUBSCRIPTIONDespite the low wage tutors recieve, and overall poor quality of the platform of which Cambly invests no time or money, the cost of subscription continues to increase, making it an unaffordable and undesirable service for many students. Cambly pockets most of the money of its students, including a ridiculous "cancellation fee" which many students have complained about.FALSE ADVERTISINGCambly advertises itself to tutors as a casual conversation platform for native speakers, who just have to chat with students to improve their speaking skills. Cambly advertises itself to students as a platform full of extremely qualified, well-educated professionals with an array of experiences to help them achieve their personaized English goals.The expectations tutors and students have of using Cambly are grossly misaligned.NO PROTECTION FOR TUTORSMany tutors on Cambly, especially women, are subjected to inappropriate students who use the platform as a way to expose themselves on camera. Despite many complaints, Cambly does nothing besides advising us to block these type of students, although they can easily create a new account and do the same thing all over again. UNETHICALThe new Terms and Agreement that is mandatory for tutors is unethical at best and absolutely criminal at worst. They are using our classes for the development of AI which will inevitably leave many tutors without a job and income, which many rely on to provide for themselves and families. Overall, Cambly is a despicable company that disregards its students and barely recognizes its tutors as people. For English teaching and learning, there are much better options for both tutors and students. Don't waste your time applying or subscribing.

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Date of experience: Aug 10, 2024
Terry Adams
Not a good place to work long-term

They really need to increase the pay after all these years. Also the ratings are confusing and seem to be a bit unfair.

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Date of experience: Aug 10, 2024

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  • Cambly gives you instant access to native English speakers over video chat, so you can learn and gain confidence!

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