Throttling students, teacher scams (yes really), no livable income
Pros
24/7 availability, easy to login and navigate.
Cons
Been on Native Camp (NC) for several years now; company has not grown, gotten better for teachers/tutors, or improved the compensation for native speakers. Native Camp is a misnomer: doesn't mean availability of native speakers but rather a "student" has an opportunity to become fluent LIKE a natural English speaker. However, ridiculous since many of the non-native speakers have poor pronunciation, sentence structure skills, or take helping "students" seriously. The per class compensation has not improved over the years even though inflation/cost of living has increased. Making a livable income doesn't exist on NC. The ownership has been emailed directly but isn't listening. Dedication, loyalty, covering many slots is a colossal, COLOSSAL, waste of time, energy, effort, etc. Core teachers at the locations in Cebu, Philippines, and Bulgaria are directed the "lion's share" of students by the IT teams. Additionally, the IT operatives will cancel a student entering an outside the core teacher/tutor "classroom". This was proven by some computer experts who saw the telemetry broken at the source. Occasionally a "student", who has a favorite teacher, will favor the favorite by going into the "room" of a teacher with a fairly good rating, stay for a few minutes, mumble or rudely manipulate the process, and then tank the rating of the instructor. This pushes the coach further back on the available guide pages making it harder to attract learners. NC DOES NOT heed teacher/tutor complaints regarding student behavior: money hungry owners reflect that teachers are considered dogs and cannon fodder. NC's reputation has always been subject to derision, doubt, and denigration: Trustpilot, Facebook, and Glassdoor have many reports of NC's manifest abuse for many, many, years. And again, nothing ever changes. Recently, NCs push for non-native "discount tutors" has cost them a blow to their reputation: A tutor from the "prince continent" scammed an actual student out of several thousand dollars. Thus the result and reward of pursuing cheaper faces. A word to the wise should be sufficient.