He spends classes doing problems, but he's working through them for the first time himself and gets confused. When someone asks him a question, he spends 10 minutes going on a tangent while not answering the question, usually opening some Wikipedia articles on the way. He also sends several emails a day, half of which are about BUEC instead of 336.

Your grade is made up mainly of your two midterms and the final. Teaching is mediocre at best as he does not have a lesson plan. Tries going over questions from textbook that will have loads of mistakes. Enthusiastic about what he does but teaching ability is not there, with many assignments being delayed since some people in class didn't get them.

Routinely starts lectures 30 mins late. Assignments are weekly, but often delayed. Midterms constitute a significant chunk of the grade. Tends to go off on tangents while answering questions. Refers to Wikipedia as a reliable source, check it for a refresher or supplementary information. Unclear walkthroughs on assignment questions.

Reliance on Wikipedia in most lectures is questionable. Postpones assignments and midterms regularly. Office hour availability is random and inconsistent. Does a lot of work showing how to use Excel, even though only tested on interpretation of data. Delays lectures half an hour on average. Knowledgeable, has extensive industry experience.

He goes way too fast in lectures. I see many students recording the lecture. In his office hours, there's a long line because nobody understands what to do in his assignments. The TA's aren't helpful. The midterm is on paper, but in more than 80% of his lectures he uses Excel. Then he gives us Wikipedia screenshots to study for the midterm.

Gave us 2 days to study for the midterm. Frequently delays assignment release dates, to the point where he had to scrap an assignments and push the grade value per assignment up. Delays releasing the review forms until after an easy second midterm to boost opinion in the class. Attend office hours for more clarification on class content

Went into the course with a very optimistic attitude, but was disappointed to find the course to be exactly the opposite. Grades too easy, class average on midterm was 91, the curve is way too high. Has sporadic office hours, most of the time hes late for. Caring, and has excellent industry experience, but just not yet ready for academics

Despite being very dedicated to the study of Statistics, the ease of the exams makes the curve extremely high. The average for our final was over 90%, and with the course average being so high, some in the class got a C despite getting an 80% overall. Nate neglects to check emails, will often use Wikipedia in lectures, and always starts 30 min late

This is my third time as a TA and I was rather disappointed by the disorganization between Nate and his students. The work he goes over in class generally differs from whats typically taught normally, so students will often have a difficult time if theyre not used to it. Nate delays his lectures half an hour so him and students can sleep in.

Boring class Boring exam Unfair at all

Nate's lectures are disorganized and confusing. He speaks way too fast and frequently jumps from topic to topic during class. Simple concepts are lost in his long rants about data and technology. There are no slides or textbook in this class and his notes are useless as they are just random and vague concepts scribbled on the board.

extremely disorganized. Assignments are not done properly and changes everything last minute. He makes you think he's a good prof but is terrible at giving feedback. I would not recommend.

Worst prof Ive ever had in the history of my undergrad. Makes false promises to be available for questions, but does not follow through. He was not available during normal class times for the last 3 weeks during quarantine. Too busy sending us pictures of his ski trips throughout the term to actually care about teaching his classes.

He is the worst professor I have ever had, I can't even believe him. He has not done lectures for a month at this point and does not help students answer any questions. We are expected to self learn and completed 3/4 of the term assignments. We didn't even learn stuff on the midterm. He doesn't even reply back to emails asking for clarification.

We haven't had lectures for a long time. We're asked to do 5 regression/classification models he's never taught. Basically, students are browsing Wikipedia for a list of random models to meet the required '5 models'. Kaggle is more organized than this. Code Academy is better than this. What the heck is this? This is a self-taught class.

Lectures were extremely disorganized, felt like he was making the syllabus as he taught. constantly moved from topic to topic. Assignments were vague and so were his answers to any questions I asked.

A complete waste of my time. Nate googles all lecture content as he teaches during class. That is, IF he decides to teach. Google search was the real prof of BUS462. Pushes back all 5 assignments till end of the term. Blames COVID-19 for not being available for questions, but what about the weeks before school was cancelled? HM. Not convinced.

His class is very disorganized as he keeps delaying assignments until the end of the semester. His lecture is never clear and he usually just scribble stuff on the whiteboard. We havent even had any lecture for a month so we have to google all the code by ourselves for assignments.

This teacher will be polite in starting till your last exams came especially when you guys done his survey . Be aware for finals

Decided to delay all our assignments to the end of the semester, now swamped with work. When Covid-19 became an issue, he promised to be available and have increased accessibility. All lies, he completely abandoned us. He cancelled lectures before Covid even became an issue, we haven't been taught for ALMOST 6 WEEKS. Never take this man's classes

never reply emailnever give feedback to studentgroup assignment is so difficultthis course is easybut professor give only a few a levelnever take this professors courseso bad i never see beforeHis exam is not correlation with his teach in class

Several issues with this prof and I don't recommend his class. His marking is unfair and he provides no feedback on assignments, and no opportunity to improve. He stopped teaching after week 5, and my team and I had to Google everything. He moved all assignments to be due within the last few weeks of classes. Too busy with outside work, don't take

Took bus 232 online with him and he must be the least organized professor out there. No clear study guide, messy lectures that dont correspond to the book or slides. You basically have three different materials the slides, the book, and his lectures which are all unrelated. His exams are extremely unfair too with too many non of the above choices.

Dont take it with Nate

Nate is all over the place and "doesn't test theory" but then proceeds to make his exams all theory. Practice problems are a waste of time and do not prepare you for his exams.

Absolute joke of a prof. He ends a two hour class after 45 mins because "he has stuff to do". Yeah Nate, you do. It's called teaching us. The fact that we're paying our hard-earned money for this man is bizarre. He doesn't respond to WhatsApp near the due date of the project, vague guidelines, and don't get me started on his exams. Horrible.

We are meant to have two 2-hour lectures a week. Each one ends up being an hour long so why am I paying for 4 hours a week when he only teaches 2? He always reiterates "this is a practical class. As long as you are proficient with the practice problems youll do really well". Well thats a lie as doing practice problems prepared you for 5% of MT#2.

Nate has done a poor job. He said that practice problems are reflective of what the exams will be like but then on exam 2, 90% of the questions were "conceptual" questions. Nate also says he will post recordings/review/hw feedback but never does and when students ask about it, he will ignore it. He comes late to class and sometimes even skips class

Nate's academic credentials mean nothing when he is incapable of staying true to his words such as showing grades or his grading criteria. He gives out practice questions that are completely "practical" based and but then on the exams, he expects you to answer "conceptual-based" questions which are 90% of the exam. Any other prof is better than him

Nate is one of the worst profs Ive had. Whenever you ask him for something he defers it to a later date and never delivers on his promises. Class is scheduled for 4 hours but likes to wrap it up in 2. Doesnt hold office hours.. Weve had various project submissions due throughout the term and he hasnt marked anything. Exams are a joke.

Broke our group project into 3 sections, but has yet to mark the first one we submitted 2 months ago. Class ends early, his excuses are not valid. Provides practice problems without answers. Problems are not theory based, but then makes the midterm theory based. Absolute horrible class notes. Do not, I repeat, do not take this class with him.

Nate is a flat-out liar. We've been waiting two months to get one component of our project graded, and his excuse was "there were issues with academic dishonesty". Man you've had two months to figure it out. Exams are beyond unfair, he cuts class an hour early each time. His WhatsApp group is a joke, he always ignores people's questions.

The worst prof I've ever had at SFU. Made excuses all term about why we haven't received our marks back yet, even though the term is about to be over.

This guy is a joke. Gives you the impression that he cares but really doesn't. Lectures are a joke, all over the place and so disorganized. Gives out practice problems without solutions and exams are nothing like what the questions he assigns. Doesn't hold office hours and reply to email. This guy's gotta go. Worst prof i've had. AVOID

All the things I wanna say here are accurately mentioned in the below rates by everyone(since summer 2020) The worst prof ever Dont take his course, like seriously.

The professor uses WhatsApp as his only method of communication and will not answer questions or only gives very vague responses. The semester is almost over and we have not had any of our assignments graded. I encourage more students to escalate their complaints further with the Business Department.

I will never take another class with him. His exams are not similar to the practice questions (made by him) at all. We were forced to submit three parts of a project without even getting a feedback on the previous parts. He only communicates on WhatsApp, and most of the times he replies after several days.

During the first day he said the exams were all practical, calculation based, and such that he gives out a ton of questions on said calculations. That's fine, but when exam day came, it was packed with the theory which he never taught. He doesn't admit fault but doubles down as says "it's conceptual". On top a 3 part assignment with zero marks back

My opinion on Nate did a full 180. Seemed like a nice guy at first and was responsive in the Whatsapp group but, the midterms were more theory than calculations, the opposite of what he claimed. Additionally, the first part of 3 part project (which was submitted Jun23) is yet to be marked, we handed in the other parts without feedback.

THIS GUY IS THE ABSOLUTE WORST PROF NO SLIDES AND NO THEORY OR "CONCEPTUAL LEARNING" IN LECTURE. HE SAID ALL EXAMS ARE BASED ON CALCULATIONS AT THE BEGINNING BUT AT THE END HE SAID NO CALCULATIONS. HE HASNT GIVEN BACK OUR ASSIGNMENTS THAT WERE HANDED IN JUNE 23 ( TWO MONTHS AGO)!!!!!!! WORST PROF 10/10 WILL NOT recommend

Lectures are honestly useless, I completely learned from the textbook (which he never references). There were questions on one of the midterms with wrong answers that we asked to be fixed, he will not tell us which questions are incorrect before the final because he "had a multi-hour lecture session going over it", yet there were no recordings.

If you want to actually learn and have a shot at getting a decent grade, take it with a different prof. Nate is very unorganized and his lectures do not reflect what is going to be on the exams. The term has gone by and we still don't know how we did on our projects. Super unprofessional.

Advice for all future students: GOOGLE THE QUESTIONS DURING THE EXAM. All the questions and answers were straight from Google so you better take advantage of that ;)

Nathaniel Payne was by far the worst professor that I've had at SFU. His inability to get marking done on time, as well as the fact that his exam formats enabled cheaters to get higher marks on both midterm and final exams, is inexcusable. Steer clear of this professor.

His exams are not similar to the lectures and the given practice questions. His teaching is unclear and it's hard to understand what he said. He hasn't marked the assignments that we gave at least 2 months ago and he didn't give any feedback for us to improve. Not recommend if you want to study properly.

Disorganized prof. Makes his midterm and finals the night before! Also, his questions are from a test bank you can easily find online... Also the questions he made himself have incorrect answers because he makes the exams the night before. DO NOT TAKE HIM!

Didn't answer my questions during the lecture. Marked assignments months after they were handed in. Lecture material doesn't match assessments. It was a very frustrating semester. Overall good guy, but I don't feel prepared for BUS 336 and I don't feel like I got the most out of that course (BUS 232) I could have with a different prof

This professor is by far the most inefficient one I have ever met at SFU. It takes him three months to mark the projects. He always has excuses like he said he needed to check academic honesty. But he can let TA help him mark together. He is just unable to mark them on time. His lectures are also VERY VERY disorganized. It is very terrible.

Most questions on the final exam can be easily found on google. That is very unfair for students who did final themselves. He said he was upholding academic integrity which is why it took so long for him to mark the projects. But he did not do the same thing on examination or that was just an excuse? SFU canceled contract with him, he deserved it.

He is a nice guy, but his lectures are very terrible and disorganized. He emphasized concept testing and understanding but this is a statistical course. He should focus more on calculations and logical deductions, these practical things. I think he went the wrong way to test students. Also, the practice questions he gave us are pretty useless.

I just want to know is it fine for Nate home's wireless network??????? Three months to mark the project, one week to answer my question on Whatsapp

This guy took 2 months to return project grades which were worth 25% of the grade. The exam that questions were taken from online testbanks and nothing like the practice. Doesn't hold office hours, exams are unfair, and straight-up ignore people when they confront him. Luckily others wont have to suffer as he wont be teaching at SFU

Nate spent more effort trying to lower the curve than actually teach this semester. No rubric or anything given for term project and he took forever to mark. Asked for feedback and he had nothing to say.

I'm glad SFU cancelled his contract. Doesn't deserve to be a prof. Pretty immature for a prof. A bit too disorganised. Don't get swayed by his cool character.

SFU finally changed my grade after 1 month. Nate's grade had a problem and about 75% students got affected. His grading wasn't fair at all.

Worst professor ever!!!!!!

This guy is just a joke! What he did was also ridiculous, no specific rubric for the group assignments. The exam is pretty unfair, final can be done by searching the questions via Google. Glad he was fired!

Really have no idea why a person like him can be a professor. Make a Whatsapp group, pretending to be caring. Wrote an exam just before the test date. Took his whole life to mark the team projects. Put useless practice questions to mislead the students.

SFU should raise the standards when hiring the professor!

This professor's teaching method is full of flaws. The practice questions he gave to us were useless and wasted our time working on them. Cut half of the lecture time and make the exam way harder. No rely on emails. No rubric for projects. Everyone can cheat on Final, just typing the questions on Google.