Great atmosphere, but hard to continue - English Teacher bei Atlantic Language: Mitarbeiterbewertung

My colleagues who I worked closely with were great to work with, lovely and very hardworking. Nice building, central location. Overall friendly atmosphere in the workplace. Flexitime option too which is great.

I think the company takes complete advantage of great employees (both admin staff and teachers), works them to the max, and offers a very limited salary in return. There is zero job stability in this company, I was a permanent staff member who had to interview to keep my job! When I refused to interview (as they were merging 2 roles for basically the same amount of money, meaning double the work for little pay) they made me redundant. I don’t think a permanent staff member who has successfully passed their probation should be let go so easily. It is completely unfair. Teachers also have little job stability and the turnover of teachers is very high. It is also very difficult to get a pay rise in the company, my colleague was trying for many months.

The students were mostly pleasant and wanted to learn. The other teachers were good coworkers.

This school is run fully for profit, it can barely be called a school. Teachers are moved between levels too quickly to get to know their student's strengths/weaknesses. If a student asks to be moved up to a higher level class, they are often allowed to, even if they're not actually that level of English, leading to a huge imbalance in class ability. Management will sign you on a temporary contract with only 15hrs of teaching guaranteed. Your hours may be cut without warning, which often happened, so you'd make very little money in the week. Managers promoted underqualified people who had very little experience/education to managerial roles. People were let go with absolutely no warning. The low pay wasn't worth having to make your own lessons from scratch. High staff turnover, Management don't seem to care about the teachers at all.