Product School Pros and Cons

Product School provides comprehensive offerings for product professionals to advance their careers. Beyond the high-quality instructor-led courses, students are empowered to make the experience their own and maximize value. What excited me most was joining an active global community of product managers and leaders. There are also mentorship, career coaching, and networking opportunities. I also appreciated having access to concrete tools and templates that can be leveraged on the job.

I took the Product Leadership Course with Lenworth G. The learning modules included real-world content. The slides were insightful and Lenworth's voiceover gave helpful context, drawing from his extensive experience in the field. The cohort was encouraged to engage in group discussions—an important piece for me, hearing about other people's experiences in different industries working on different products, what challenges they face, and how they approach them. Lenworth made himself available for additional coaching outside of class time, which I greatly appreciated. I expect to stay in touch with Lenworth for years to come. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would have liked more guidance to optimize my time BETWEEN course sessions. For example, where to find take-home activities in the LMS and how to prepare for the next session.

That being said, I encourage future students to self-structure. Carve out a few hours between sessions to re-read the last module's slides and preview the next module's slides. Lenworth frequently shared articles/materials from around the web related to ongoing course content. These were solid reads outside of class time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I enjoyed the online course even though I was in an unfortunate situation of being in a class taught in Pacific Time, but living in the East Coast. The course is laid out in 2 parts:

First, is where we have to go through the self-study sessions. These sessions include a lot of theory and typically take about an hour or so to get enough information to be able to collaborate fully in the class, but are also filled with other resources including articles, blogs, videos, and an intro to multiple PM tools.

Second, is a review of the self-study lead by Ivan and then an interactive session working on a project to help internalize the material. These sessions would include breaking up into random breakout rooms and matching with different individuals in the class to work on a different part of the product lifecycle. Ivan did a wonderful job in creating a truly interactive and safe space where people were excited to collaborate and truly pick eachothers brains. At the end of each interactive session there would be a review of the project we had done by having teams share theire project and then Ivan would provide feedback. I really benefited from this portion of the course as we are given an opportunity to pick eachothers minds and this is also how I like to learn things.

My instructor, Ivan Iannaccone, brought vast industry knowledge and experience to the table. He was very approachable, sincere and supportive throughout the course. It was his first time teaching the course and we did struggle with technical difficulties to start, but he was quick to familiarize himself with the resources and tools and quickly created a space where we can learn seamlessly. I think the majority of the class benefited the most when he was fielding questions at the end of each lesson because he is able to dive into his own experience to provide unique insights on how to approach certain situations. However, I benefited the most since he did a wonderful job in providing energy for the course by instilling confidence in me as it was clear he truly believed that everyone in the class was more than capable of a successful career in Product and wants nothing but success for everyone in the course. It was truly a pleasure to learn from him. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For the price of the course there were quite a bit of technical difficulties and things were not very seamless. There were also some inconsistency with the material that could have been captured earlier vs later during class. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

After contemplating & waiting for the last two years whether to join in person or an online product management course at Product School, I decided to join Online product classes after a quick chat with the onboarding team. Online courses and experiences have been unique and seamless with great fellow peers and excellent product management instructor – Shreekanth Bhattiprolu. Class experience included product management specifics, brainstorming sessions, case studies, building your network, social interactions, learning how to apply the product management skills on your job or simply enhancing your skills. The class format is well structured to address all student personas interested in product management with different experiences. Shreekanth has been a great instructor, super helpful and supportive, approachable & an excellent mentor. His insights into the product manager role, expectations and what it takes to be a good product manager were truly remarkable!

Looking forward to joining advanced product management courses as well. I am now a Product School brand and course advocate! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Gerald (our instructor) was excellent - very knowledgeable, has vast industry experience, is very approachable, and is a great instructor for the course.

The study material/course content is excellent.

Preparing for class ahead of time and working on team projects during the course were very effective for me.

The course is perfect for having strong Product management fundamentals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing specific. I am yet to take test and go over resume review / interviews. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I enjoyed the online course. It was well planned and laid out, easy for me to follow.

The course is laid out in 2 parts essentially:

First, is where we had to go through the self-study sessions (usually 2 hrs - just enough, so I could finish everything with enough time, learn about the topics and not feel overloaded and rushed) These sessions include theory(from Ideation to launch and retrospective) and learning tools that the PMs use currently like Mural, Figma, Gainsight, Sprig, etc,.

Second, is the fun part where you are in an interactive session led by an instructor and work on a real-life problem/case study. These sessions include working with the students(there were 15 people in my cohort) and learning about industry practices from the instructor who has been working in the industry as a Product Manager. Anjaly Joseph, PM at Google, led our cohort. Anjaly did an amazing job of communicating and making it a more intimate arrangement. A lot of online courses fail because of isolation. While guiding us with some industry insights, she had us work on the entire product life cycle and let us be creative with it! We worked in teams and came up with solutions and had a discussion where Anjaly would act as a stakeholder or engineer etc, to prepare us and to carry out skills in the real world. I was lucky to be in a cohort led by her - she’d also make us aware of PM tools and give us suggestions for books that are good for more in-depth knowledge. I think it’s a very solid course. I learned a lot.

One of the very refreshing things is the access to all the resources that come with this course - like templates that could be used in your company, slack channel for networking, career coaching, resume review and mock interviews on Product school channels. If you utilize as many resources as possible, the course is of great value - even for newbies like me who are a rookie in the field of Product!

TL;DR Informative course, Interactive, you get many resources, get to network, Instructor is a product manager from big tech, great value for the price. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Many students in my cohort didn’t have links to the Mural whiteboard and didn’t know about the self-study sessions. It could be very easily fixed if the Product School keeps a 30 mins session before the 1st instructor lead session, wherein we can make sure everybody is on the same page! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The content was designed well overall for beginners. Eva Feng who was our instructor did a great job delivering the content and also sharing snippets from her personal experiences as examples. I am not a PM yet but do work with them daily, so the course helped me understand their role much better and develop more empathy for them. I look forward to giving PM role a try in my current job.

Will recommend the course to anyone looking to learn or switch into PM role. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There were some instances where Mural links or content was different between what Coach was seeing vs what students saw. Mural product is good but generally not intuitive to work with, especially when you have limited time to complete in class activities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It was a great experience, our mentor not just only presented the class content but share her experience as a PM at Meta, her day-to-day difficulties and valuable tips that I will never forget.

I really recommend this course for every passionate product person, it doesn'tt matter your background, but if you want to do great products in your career this is the right place to start. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The learning platform could be better, at the bigining some of the students get lost. Also it would be nice to have easy access to download all the content of the course. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

To learn from the experiences of some of the best instructors in several industries. Also training beginner product managers on multiple tools like Mixpanel, Google Analytics etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Although there are multiple free resources available but if there are some content available on how to crack PM interviews then it will become much more beneficial for beginners Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Product Management Certificate (PMC) provided comprehensive context for someone to break into product management and understand the required skills to do the job well. Many individuals (including myself) worked in product adjacent roles and enjoyed thought-provoking discussions, content, and mentorship. As a current product manager, I would say that the PMC prepared me well. Furthermore, the PMC course and instructor helped prepare me to break into product management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Regarding the Product Leader Certificate (PLC), I felt like the class didn't provide any extra benefit, and the curriculum was outdated. There were times when the students (including the instructor) mentioned that the slide and content were not as applicable or helpful in the professional context. Some discussion prompts came from very left field, because they didn't have any relation to the content we were learning. I didn't get a feeling that the classes were well prepped if the slides were being questioned by the instructor and the instructor was reading the slides word for word without too much additional context/examples.

Moreover, we learned introduction to statistics, SQL, and python, which felt very unnecessary. For example, we spent a significant amount of time in class learning about how to take an average, mean, median, and mode, which felt very basic knowledge that most participants would already have. Also, we learned introduction to coding, which was always prefaced with "you will not need this for your day to day job, you don't need to remember all the exact coding language," which made some of us question why we were following a SQL/Python workbook to learn basic coding language. The instructor would place us in zoom breakout rooms to follow a script to learn coding, which felt like we were just reading a page out of a textbook and trying out test problems without fully understanding the purpose of the activity. As a product leader course, I was not expecting to spend hours of time learning how to write a script that I would not actually do in my day to day job. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I loved how the PMC course provided hands-on training with the learning modules taught in the course. It was very beneficial for people outside of the PM world to bring in and utilize their transferable skill set and get a real taste of what the day-to-day of a PM can potentially look like. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wish there was more training on using certain applications -- specifically for road mapping and A/B testing. I also wish there was more emphasis on making data-driven decisions. At the end of the day, you need to put in a lot of time and it can be tough while working full time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.