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• I see many bad comments here for NativeCamp, but I need some experience teaching online and am ready to get some experience. I have a degree, I have been a classroom teacher, have homeschooled both of our children, took a 168 hour TEFL class. I'm ready to do something new. I understand that this NativeCamp does not pay much, but life is about learning new things, and learning new things takes a good attitude and patience. So, I'll get a few dollars for experience teaching English and using the internet to do it. Yep, there's gonna be mix-ups, and bad people and confusion, but you have to get through all that to learn. And, there will also be good days, with kind, interesting people, good experiences.

• I was on standby almost everyday for a few hours and not once got a recruiter to do the demo video with me. When I logged on a few days ago , it suggested that I retake the demo video which I once again still what I have been trying to do but still nothing.

• I passed my first time demo lesson and the recruiter told me they would endorse me and immediately i was scored passed by the system,then the following day they system says i failed i need to retake my demo.I retook the demo lesson and passed and was told i would be endorsed by recruiters only to find out later in the day the system saying i failed.I just gave up on it.

• Finished my first week on NC. Earned 32 dollars. Pay is awful, you can't earn good money here. I was legit on my computer 8 hours a day on standby when it was "rush hour(a lot of students looking for classes", but it didn't matter, u can get 1 class in 2 hours max. Pay is 1.5 per sudden class and 1.67 for booked class that the students keep on canceling all the time just because they can. On top of that i was super polite with every student, tried my best and my rating is 4.31 because some kid who refused to do exercises and was playing games on his phone gave me 1 star. NOT WORTH THE MONEY OR THE TIME. Maybe some other platforms pay better, but to go through all this just to earn 100-200dollar a month MAX is just complete waste of time.

  • I can't believe you've made only 32usd in a week. I've been teaching with NC for 3 months and take 8-15 classes a day. I have it as a side job, just to fill in the time between my other lessons, but it still gives me 400-500usd every pay period. I'm sorry to hear you ear so little.

• Hi. NC is a company that I would definitely not recommend. Firstly, they are extremely quick to confront you if something is mildly wrong but they make bleeps all the time ie not getting salaries correct, being cut off in the middle of a class, sudden deactivation....not good. The worst is the pay. I cannot believe that in today's world a company can be happy to pay their tutors almost nothing. They are constantly employing new tutors do they are now saturated with very few lessons for anyone. No!

• Good day. I am a new instructor with NC however I haven't started teaching. I would like to ask a question about the schedule in the app.
  Is the schedule in the teacher's timezone or in NC's default timezone?

  • the schedule is in your time. but there havent been students online for weeks. honestly you going to be wasting your time here. plus many teacher have now been complaining abot the fact that money hasnt been paid after a booked lesson. or that the total amount hasnt been paid. better to find another comapny than waste your time here

• I applied and passed the English proficiency test. I went through a technical check and I was directed to account information completely. Is this a glitch?

• I have applied and passed the so-called demo lesson (They checked my camera, background, headset etc, and asked to read a self-introductory bio). Thanks to their arrogant notes I bought a better laptop and headset.
  Well, it was not so hard to be admitted. The poor thing is the salary. 1,5$ is not worth trying. Even if I am currently working for the Russian company Skyeng, they pay miserable money now, when rubles have cheapened a lot, I won't work for such a company with penalties like; if the student doesn't show up 0-24 hours prior to the lesson you are charged the full price for a 25-minute lesson. I spent a lot of time doing their tests and questionnaires. I'd been confused about the salary before applying. If you see my data there, I am not there. They seem not to delete the personal data of resigned teachers.

• I am still teaching in this company and I got issues now. My account has been deactivated twice now . First apparently students do not think i am native enough. So I had to send in my documents such as passport, TESOL certificate and high school diploma for the company to insure that I studied in an English speaking country. Second issue is now my nationality with native speakers in the company again thinks I am not a native speaker. So like what now? My nationality is Canadian. Yes I am Filipino because I was born in the Philippines but I am a Canadian citizen now.
  I have been living in Canada for 21 years now and I have been working for this company for 5-6 months now and they are addressing this issues now? Such a weird company.

  • Hello Jina. I'm sorry to hear about your experience with NC. You should be paid as a native, 4,16usd for sudden class, 8,98usd for a booked class. How come you are paid so little? I was also born in another country, but grew up in Australia. They've never asked for my passport nor any other proof and classified me as a native speaker straight away. Try sorting this out, as you are missing out on a better rate.

• I did all sort of jobs in the past. Some were nice, some were less nice, and then I heard about Native camp. You work from your home, teach English, work as much as you want, meet some nice people. It sounds like a perfect job, right? Wrong!!!! They have many rules at Native camp, like you can’t ask students personal questions, however they can ask you personal questions. They can also choose not to show their face and you are not allowed to tell them to show themselves. They pay very little. 1,5 $ per class or if it is a booked class then it is 2,5 $. They like to punish teachers because teachers are those who are being payed so they have to take the fall. Unlike students who are paying and therefore no matter what they do, nothing will happened. Another bad thing is that students are giving grades to teachers, and if they are not happy, don’t like how you look or for any reason, they give you bad grade and your rating goes down. Students are from Japan. I had some nice students, but I also had some real jerks. Some older woman told me that there will be some students that will not be that nice. Preety quickly her words came true. There was a student that really sucked and they are all proud and don’t like when you correct them. During the class student started talking in Japanese. I don’t speek Japanese language but I do know how to read people’s faces and that student made a face like: this teacher is stupid and I will show that nobody messes with me. After that class my ratings went down. There was a student that didn’t want to show his face because he wanted to talk bad things about Chinese people and he wanted me to do the same. I know that Chinese and Japanese don’t like each other because they have bad history, but that doesn’t mean I should talk bad stuff about anyone. There was a student that asked me all sort of stuff and in the end of a class he called me a liar and gave me a bad grade. That was a dick move from him. Most of the students don’t really care about teaching English. Japanese are lonely people and they need to talk to someone. One student sounded like he wants to kill himself. I am not a psychiatrist, I don’t know how to deal with people that are in a desperate mood. No matter what I asked him all I got from him was: Yes, No, Don’t know, Kind of. And he was speaking really quiet. When I asked him to speak a little louder because I can’t hear what he says, he stopped talking. I look at the time and there is more then 16 minutes left. Oh boy this class will sure take time to end. I couldn’t leave the class because if class is ended sooner the teacher is the one who is guilty. That happened with another student. We had a nice chat , everything seemed nice and 3 minutes before time runs out he said I have to go and hanged up. My ratings went down because of that. There is a rule 1 student per class. When class started I saw small kids, and I mean really small kids. I didn’t know who is my student and they didn’t even use headphones so I could hear my voice in the echo. I could see a woman behind them and my guess is that she needed a babysitter so told them to call Native camp. I am not a babysitter. Entire class kids were running around and doing everything but talking English. When the class was over my ratings went down again. The worst of all was when they have sent me an email telling me they have deactivated my account because i am the worst teacher. Strange thing is that every single time i was able to see 2 teachers bellow me with worse ratings then mine. So i asked them about that if they could explain how am i the worst when there were teachers with rating 3.87 and my rating never went bellow 4.17. Their answer was what am i going to do about my behaving. Stay away from Native camp. Don't say i didn't try to worn you.

  • Worst experience, did my demo twice, the woman, kept sneezing, saying she can't hear me, where I could hear her very well, most rude person I have ever come across, with my luck she did both my demos, a real demon, I must say, sneaky innocent voice, can't even say teacher properly, kept saying teacher, they should check their own accents, I must say.overall pathetic, her name is Cristy, that's even her name.