Great idea, but not a great place to work - Anonymous employee Hoot Reading Employee Review

2.0
15 Mar 2022
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The product/app is actually a good idea.

Cons

- Terrible communication between different levels of management - Too many big egos at play pretending to know things without actually knowing them - Manual and outdated tech stack - Blind points among the founding team causes them to get defensive about their actions even when asked simple questions by employees - Little to no training provided followed by unrealistic expectations with the resources employees are armed with - Low pay within the ed-tech industry

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5.0
19 May 2025
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Pros

Great hours, pay, very supportive team.

Cons

More hours through the summer and more opportunities for advancement.

4.0
4 Feb 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Support is great. They improve systems based on feedback from employees. You are one to one with students, unlike some of the other companies. This makes the program so much more successful for the students. Very easy to pick up extra opportunities subbing etc..

Cons

We all have teaching degrees, so 20.00 an hour is pretty low. I don't mind so much because I have a pension but it would be hard to live on. Other companies that are doing roughly the same sort of thing pay up to 4 an hour more.

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