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Forbes · Joined: 06 Oct 2006 Posts: 8

Does anybody work for these guys and can provide some inside information?

tw · Joined: 04 Jun 2005 Posts: 3898

Have you tried the search button? There are quite a few threads on these companies.

Drizzt · Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 229 Location: Kyuushuu, Japan

Ok a quick breakdown for you.

Wall Street pays the most but you also work the most hours.

Web is middle ground in this respect.

Kai en pays the least of the three but from what I've heard they offer the most as far as professional development is concerned.

The only one I actually interviewed with was WEB (when I was in Shanghai), but ended up turning down the job. Although it pays well (like 9000 RMB plus 4K RMB for housing if I remember correctly), when you factor in all the hours you put in teaching per week it's not that great.

Just my two mao.

prof · Joined: 25 Jun 2004 Posts: 741 Location: Boston/China

Babala · Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 1303 Location: Henan

I've been teaching at Web for 3 years now. In a nutshell, here's the good and bad.

Good
-salary
-housing
-students
-environement

Bad
-vacation time
-hours

Forbes · Joined: 06 Oct 2006 Posts: 8

Babala · Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 1303 Location: Henan

Forbes,
If you read my post again, you will see that I have worked at Web for 3 years.

prof · Joined: 25 Jun 2004 Posts: 741 Location: Boston/China

Forbes · Joined: 06 Oct 2006 Posts: 8

Forbes · Joined: 06 Oct 2006 Posts: 8

Babala · Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 1303 Location: Henan

I always find it interesting when a poster assumes what you know and what you don't Shocked

prof · Joined: 25 Jun 2004 Posts: 741 Location: Boston/China

Tessio · Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 2:16 pm Post subject:

I second Babala.

I now work at Wall Street, in Shanghai, in their Jin Mao Tower center. I am enjoying this "job" immensely. Although the hours/days are long, the salary is more than adequate. But, more importantly, the classroom experience is more than satisfying.

I enjoy the small classes in particular. The students are there to learn, and have paid dearly for it, unlike the pricks I taught at a university in Nanjing.

As for the Professors claims concerning "hearsay". I know for a fact that 3 regular teachers in the Jin Mao center have been here for more than 3 years. Other centers have a few longtimers as well.

I think it is a great place to work, albeit the tie, and recommend that you look into it.

If the Professor can help you get set up on your own, most likely roaming around town from job to job, enjoy the 20K!

If you do go with the Professor, you will be able to hang out at Park 97 with him on a Saturday night. Unfortunately, I have to work at 9am tomorrow.

Good Luck.

Tessio · Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 2:56 pm Post subject:

The Professor typed: "They do internet hiring, have a revolving door of staff, terrible standards."

As far as I know, from first hand experience, Wall St. only hires people who are already in China. So, Forbes, you will probably not get a job. But, exceptions can be made.

It's true, people come and go. I may be one of those who are entering/exiting through the revolving door, but Wall Street has alot of teachers who have been with the "company" for more than 1 year.

I wonder why they stay?

PS - I contacted them, not only because I believe in our system, which WEB and EF copied, but because I refused to be a "monkey" at a university, which most of the self-proclaimed "real" teachers" out there are.

Universities are for the weak, in my opinion.

I think that the Professor is a hustler. Good for him. But, don't listen to his slanted, "hearsay", opinions Forbes.

I'ld rather be a monkey for someone who paid me well!!

We are all monkeys!! But, some of US have more free time. - Paul E. D.

Except for ....

Forbes · Joined: 06 Oct 2006 Posts: 8