I attended the second stage of an AEON interview process a little while ago, which is a group interview with other candidates, and the experience was alright. They went more in depth about how the schedule looks and how much you would be working, which kind of turned me off a bit, but I was thinking I would still go through with it.
The uncomfortable part of the story starts in the second part of this interview, when you are put in a private zoom room with the same recruiter, and you teach them a demo lesson. You are given a work sheet that you must work out with them for as you roleplay as a teacher and they role play as the student. I began teaching the demo lesson and I noticed her accent shift. She started talking in a "Japanese accent", which caught me completely off guard. As a Japanese person myself, I was trying my hardest not to laugh as this non-Japanese person was trying to speak English in a Japanese accent. It honestly sounded way too extreme. I was definitely smiling much more in my demo lesson because of this experience.
This experience left a bad taste in my mouth about the company (along with the pay and schedule), and I am not sure if I will fully go through with teaching there with AEON. I am not sure if I am overreacting or not, but this experience turned me off quite a lot.
by NKE17