A sad, steady decline for a once promising company - Recensione dipendente - Mentor presso Thinkful

1,0
6 ago 2020
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Flexible hours and some good coworkers.

Svantaggi

Gross incompetence at nearly every level. Subpar mentors are hired at an alarming rate due to below average pay and genuine talent seeing the writing on the walls. No benefits, no 401k, $25 an hour for a job where the median hourly rate is nearly double that. No real opportunity to progress career wise. Management is promoted at a Peter Principle level, and has only gotten worse since the Chegg buyout. People wildly unqualified are somehow moving up the ladder due to sheer favoritism. Which in turn creates more problems and disfunction. Student quality has severely dropped off. Thinkful changed their marketing to appeal to lower income students, and attempts to lure them in with predatory tactics. Students getting real jobs after completion is much lower than they lead you to believe. I love being a mentor, but far too many students are getting into coding for the wrong reasons, and Thinkful is allowing them to sign their future away.

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5,0
4 apr 2023
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Is a good place to have on your resume

Svantaggi

pay could be better all things considered

3,0
10 mar 2024
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Lots of "control" in mentorship, schedule flexibility, get paid to enhance your craft, and typical benefits of being an independent contractor

Svantaggi

Unsteady flow of work (would be wise to not rely on this for primary income), pay is sub par for industry, pay schedule is roughly a month after service(rediculous lead time on billing), the company clearly cuts corners every year to save money and this directly impacts the contractors, unclear communication / expectations of the junior engineers that you train (we get lots of questions that must be deffered to Thinkful and many rules are not clear. You will also find students who seek help beyond the mentorsession as a last resort and must decide to leave them hanging or go above and beyond without additional pay)

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