Lime English
Lime English Review
Lime English is a new company based in China. They are looking for English teachers and are focused on improving students reading and writing skills in particular. The students are mostly children from 5-12 years old. Peak teaching times are from 7pm – 9:30pm Beijing time. They offer flexible scheduling and pay $16 – $25 USD per hour with bonuses. They want native speakers with a BA degree and K – 12 teaching experience (a TESL certificate is preferred but not necessary).
I do not know much else about this company so if you have any info or if you work for them please leave us a review.
9 Comments
David Culling
I’ve worked for them for two years. I’ve never had any issues with them. They pay me on time and every month. They use the ClassIn platform and materials are ready and waiting for use. Students are great. Communication between myself and the coordinator (Sharon) is excellent. Everything is fair and professional and the pay is as good as I’ve seen from such Chinese company. Looking at other reviews, perhaps other teachers without issues just don’t post a review.
David
It is a dishonest company run by dishonest people
They will ignore you once they have been dishonest with you
RW
I’ve worked for them before.
So the reason I believe they tell you that you’re hired in the interview and then reject you is that they don’t want to pay recruiting boards a fee. That is a red flag right there, but it is what it is. They don’t tell you this of course. They will say that they will ‘cancel’ your interview on TeacherRecord and then interview you. You then get a message from TeacherRecord saying you have been rejected. In fact they reject you there then hire you on the side. I’d assume calling them monkeys would get your offer recinded.
It is brutally disorganized. The materials are all over the place and there are no lesson plans or instructions, so if you don’t know how to make your own lessons you’ll be in trouble. You need to remind them to pay you every month. They also cause stress by doing stuff like messaging you and telling you you ended class early. You didn’t, the class started at 1050, not 11. They don’t know when their own classes started.
You also have to be forceful with them. Normally I want to be diplomatic and polite, but that doesn’t seem to help. You have to write or respond forcefully. Not “I was wondering when I was getting paid” but “My pay is three days late, I cannot continue to work until I get it.” You’ll always get it, but it is unpleasant to have to be unpleasant to people just to get things done. But they don’t respond otherwise.
That said, they seem to have survived the Beijing purge when all the other big companies didn’t. They don’t require TPR and songs and all that other nonsense. They actually want you to teach. You can do a variety of subjects. The pay will always come and it isn’t bad. Certainly you’ll do better on Lime than in Cambly or some other $10 an hour site.
If you have a job elsewhere and just want to make a couple hundred extra dollars it’s a good setup. I wouldn’t want to rely on them as my main (or even major) source of income.
William
Yup, same deal as David. Sleazy little moron named Daniel with a very poor grasp on English told me to expect a contract the next day. So, the next day-via Teacherrecord-I find out I had been rejected. Attempting tp contact them was useless (typical cowardly Chinese) and Teacherrecord (also Chinese) wouldn’t look into it, natch. Scum through and through.
david
Hey gang, ABSOLUTELY unprofessional and idiot school (if they are). the same thing happened with me, had some monkey interviewer with poor connection acting like I had the job and then they decline. BTW, don’t waste your time on teacherrecord job board …. another waste of time. REPORT TO THE FTC……how hard is that?
Emma Salem
I had an interview with the recruiter. The interview only lasted for 5-7 minutes, despite him saying it would be a 15 minute interview. The interview itself was extremely unprofessional. He did not ask questions, and he stopped me abruptly during the demo class / interview. I did not receive an email (even thought he reassured me I would hear back after 2-3 days for my result). I am very disappointed and shocked at the unprofessional interview. Do not bother applying.
SN
“Worked” for them for 2 months. Interview process was very disorganized. Had to reschedule more than once. Had to resend resume. Had one trial class. Asked for more classes. No reply. Obviously not a place I would recommend.
Wendy
I had an interview scheduled with them yesterday. The guy turned up to conduct the interview outside where connectivity was poor. The connection dropped out after about 2 mins. Then received a text that he was on the way to the train and would rearrange my interview as he had an emergency. I’ll let you know if they get back to me or not.
Ethel
Hi Wendy, did they get back to you ?