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Amazing for an Eikaiwa - Instructor One UP English School Employee Review

4.0
22 Aug 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Very caring and supportive staff, despite how busy they can get. Had health issues and they were very accommodating. When quitting, they got a letter offering to return to the company as health improved. - Decent pay per lesson. Can still make pay on empty lessons by making materials. - Medium company with personal atmosphere -Travel paid up to 20,000 yen per month, bonuses offered for good attendance. -All lessons are one on one, mostly adults. Had a 6 year old student but very serious student. -Better conversational teaching methods than larger eikaiwas.

Cons

-confirming next day schedule in a 1 hour window the night before. A simple booked/not booked viewable schedule should be online for instructors to view instead of making a phone call. -required to work at all 5 Tokyo branches (yokohama is too far to be required for all instructors). Living east of Tokyo, sometimes going to Ebisu, Shinagawa, or Shinjuku was an exhausting commute.

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4.0
18 Jan 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The Japanese staff was kind. Environment was friendly and laid-back while being professional at the same time.

Cons

If you speak up about management issues, you get fewer lessons. You cannot be friends with the Japanese staff. They make you change your name if it's "too difficult to say."

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1.0
16 Sept 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Offices spread around Tokyo in cool locations, coworkers are kind and fun, expectations are clear and workload is fair. They sponsored a work visa for part time work which is very rare

Cons

The foreigners managing the teachers are abusive. Many are old western men who have been in Japan for a long time and seem to be very unhappy with their lives, and choose to take that out on others. It is not a happy place to work as a result of this. Scheduling is difficult to organize your life around because of timing confirmation. You will need therapy after working here.

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