Product Gym

Rich never gave up on me even when I wanted to give up on myself. I am a foreign national from China and desperately needed a company to provide me with work sponsorship. I am also in banking, so it was doubly hard. Most of my interviews lasted 30 seconds. You know the ones where they ask, ‘what’s your current work authorization status’ Oh H1B? No thank you.’

This was so depressing! It took me a few tries but I finally landed 5 offers. It was crazy. When it rains it pours. I think what I like most about Product Gym is Rich’s approach to life. He views it as a number’s game and he is right. There is a lot that is outside your control; so stop trying to force yourself to please everyone. Its not going to work out.

It took 7 months and it happened for me. If I was to do this on my ...

Can’t believe I am actually giving a review right now to this company, because it seemed not too long ago being a PM was just a dream. I made it now.

The journey was short and gruesome. This is bonkers painful, but we made it. My biggest challenge is that I am a control freak that analyzes every meticulous detail. That didn’t work for me because of my timeline. This was a struggle, but with some kind hearted support from the best COACHING STAFF IN THE WORLD we made it through. Much love fam!

Until the next.

Rich is a magician! OMG, this bad@$$ made it happen for me and I will forever be in his debt. His team put together a plan for me (coming from a finance background) to land 3 offers in 2 months. Quite possibly, the best experience I never EVER want to have again.

Play the numbers game folks! Stop analyzing everything and wonderful results will pour in.

I really want to thank PG for supporting me throughout my journey. I just became a father and balancing my job hunt, along with a full-time job, and a new born is NOT EASY. These staff at PG were phenomenal. I was about to attend as many sessions as I needed and the coaches here are very accessible. I couldn’t imagine being able to land the job I had now without them.

They made it happen for me. I am very happy with how things turned out for me and I would recommend this program to anyone that is serious about making a transition.

There were definitely times when I was frustrated, but the is to be expected. Keep your head down and do the work. The rest will work itself out.

When you enroll with Product Gym; the feeling is that you are a professional athlete and they are going to take your game to the next level. The sure as heck did!

When I took a class at Product School there was only one instructor per class; and it was difficult for me to develop my technical skills from a PM that was not technical herself. This is a classic case of blind leading the blinder.

With Product Gym you get 6 subject matter experts that just know their stuff. I had a data scientist for the data questions, a UX designer for all the design questions, a Google engineer for the engineering questions, and just about every subject matter expert you can think.

They are solely focused on keeping your job hunt simple; more phone screens, more onsites, more offers. It’s just...

Yup, its doable! I averaged 15 interviews a week and I did a GA class before them, so let me save you some money. Richard is right! Without interviews you will never land this job, no matter how much experience you have or don’t have.

With Product Product Gym, my resume was revamped before the next class officially started, I was able to sit in on the current class that week, and started applying in 4 days. I was very nervous about interviewing at first, but Richard and his coaching staff are right about one thing; this is a numbers game. You have no control when these companies will contact you, so you might as well start generating activity into the funnel ASAP rocky! Treat yourself like a product that needs to be shipped and go for it.

I was able to score 15 interviews per we...

I recently enrolled in Product Gym’s 6-week training course in New York and have been really happy with both the quality of the content and the quantity (number of times they let me attend the course) of the program. Richard and Cody are committed to helping you succeed. They go out of their way to create a unique experience for you. I took the class at Product School before and found that I was completely left to fend for myself after my class was over. Nobody landed any jobs and the worst part was they just told me to stay positive. With Product Gym you see people landing offers every month, because they really created a Product Management Career Training Gym. I confess I am not technical and there are portions of the class I have to hear a few times more. This is not my background; s...

Boy when it rains it pours. If you really want a PM job, contact these fellas. They know what they are doing and I love, love, love the fact that they only focus on the interviews. I kept on focusing on the skills portion and it got me nowhere. I was constantly stuck all the time.

These boys provide you with the feedback you wish those people that interviewed you did.

This was very hard. There were many times that I wanted to quit, but thankfully Cody and Richard never allowed that to happen.

I want to preface this review by first saying that this was the hardest thing I had ever had to do. Some of you reading right now may be struggling in the process; but I implore to come and sign up with these guys. They know what they are doing. Within 22 days after signing up with them I had more phone screens than I could handle. There were a lot of ups and downs, but the support is phenomenal here.

I heard about this program in January through a friend that got a PM job after taking their course. I was really skeptical. They only had one or two reviews. Now, half a year later and more money (they raised their prices since). I wish I had just bit the bullet then because I had more time to go through Product Gym’s process.

Disclaimer: I was asked by this company to post my review. They have no knowledge of whether or not I was going to write something positive or negative.

Review…? Largely Positive. Everything here and on their website is true. They know what they are doing with the interviews, applications, resumes, the whole nine yards. When I went to the open house for other PM courses, they had nowhere near the information these guys had. The instructors, the course – all relevant.

What I didn’t see people write about is the energy of the class. EVERYONE and I mean it -EVERYONE in the class is there for one goal: get a PM job. That is the underlying focus of the class. That is why people sign up. If you are not thinking about putting 100% effort to get this job, don’t waste your time. Go to anot...

I’m posting this review because I think its very unfair that Product Gym only has 8 reviews while their competitors have so many more reviews – but I know for a fact that those companies really force reviews down their student's throat. And most of those students haven’t even landed so much as one interview. With PG, I have a PM job.

The reviews here are all real. They are not fake. I was highly skeptical but PG had nothing to hide. They said, sit in on our class, we are the real deal. WOW. I was blown by how much detailed information they had about the recruiting cycle and process for PMs. It helped me prepare- down to the exact words, to get past the interviews and to pitch myself like a PM.

I hate being lied to so I wanted to post this no-nonsense review. If you sign up and fo...

I was such a pain in the a$$ to Richard…I can’t believe he put up with me and his team got me my dream job. I asked him every single question you can possibly imagine about the class because I did NOT want to spend another $4k on a course that would not get me the job. (yes, I took another PM course elsewhere and it didn’t do it for me)
This course got me the job – I’m a PM at a healthcare startup right now – it was a PERFECT FIT for my background in pharma advertising.

Pros of the class: EVERYTHING the other reviews said. They focus on the job and the interview. They teach you the PM fundamentals with subject matter experts. Surprisingly (?) some of their alumni come back to the classes and tell you exactly their experience – wow, this proves that these guys have a track record.
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These people mean business, so be sure that you are ready to do the work when you come in here. I landed my first Product Manager job with Product Gym after taking a class with Product School earlier in the year. This was an extra $3,500 investment, but it was damn worth it. I don't want to throw Product School under the bus, but although I enjoyed my team with them; they did nothing for me in terms of transitioning. My resume was never revamped, nor was my linkedin reconfigured, they were absolutely clueless in my transition.

In less than 3 weeks after I enrolled in Product Gym, I was going on more interviews than I could handle. Its an awesome problem to have. I ended up landing 4 offers with Product Gym and I am very happy with my choice.

I want to give a big thanks to all the instructors and coaches at Product Gym that made this transition possible. Thank you for never giving up on me.

With Product Gym you can take their classes for up to 12 months and as a person that needs to understand everything, it really benefited me because I did not come from a technical background. The courses are split into 6 sections

Hard
Technical Engineering
Product Design
Data Analytics

Soft
Product Marketing
Product Strategy
Cultural and Behavioral Fit

I needed to take the Hard Skills portion about 3 times. I didn’t need to, but I wanted to because they go out of their way to make sure you learn the fundamentals and the application portion of the business. The journey with Product Gym lasted 4 grueling months, ...

I will really want to take the time to thank Product Gym for everything they did for me. Transitioning to Product Management has been my dream for the past year and during this time I tried everything. Product Gym provided with the support I needed to land this job.

I want to thank Anthony Rudeen personally!!! He was a very big help in the process.

Product Gym takes all the anxiety associated with getting this job away, so I was able to focus my time on the right activities that matter. As some of you guys can relate, job hunting is a full time job on top of your full time job. Things can get stressful very quickly when you are running into setbacks and there is not clear strategy on how to move forward.

Product Gym helped me realized what activities were worth my time and t...

Product Gym is fantastic! I took the Product School class prior to this course and can tell you with absolute confidence; this course is far superior in the follow ways: 

First, Product Gym is a career focus rather than skills focus. I am glad that I was able to learn how to generate more interviews side by side with experienced Product Managers who also have a difficult time landing the PM job of their dreams. 

Second, the coaching and mentor staff here is comprised of former recruiters 

Product Gym stuck with me for 8 months before I ultimately landed a job through them. Their coaching is awesome. The coaching team here surgically breaks down the entire interview processes so you are not surprised what happens during the interview. My greatest challenge was recognizing that interviewing for a product manager role is a numbers game. They constantly tell us that you cannot save or hold yourself out for any one company. You may not like to hear what they say, but they sincerely care about all the students that come through this program. 

I really want to take the time to thank Product Gym for everything they have done for me. I took the PM course at Product School and I truly feel this course is far superior for the following reason; I landed a job. The entire coaching staff is extremely helpful towards guiding all incoming students from inception to job placement. The criteria to enter into this program is very high, if you do not meet their requirements; they cannot and will not guarantee you a job. 

For me I came a hedge fund and started my career off in banking before landing a product manager role at a finch company here. My biggest challenge was that I did not have a clear path to securing a position. Unlike Product School, Product Gym revamps your resume, linkedin, and cover letter as soon as you enroll. They ...

These guys know exactly what it takes to get you a Product Manager Job. Resume, First Round, Second Round, Onsite, Negotiation – the guys that run this are recruiters and PMs. They know what you need to put on the resume, what you need to say on the calls, how to prepare for the calls.

I didn’t sign up for this course to get general product management knowledge. You can get that for free online and for much cheaper. Some of these reviews talk about other bootcamps, but I didn’t even both asking them because when I scheduled the call on product gym – they systematically broke down why the things I was doing didn’t work, what I needed to do, and a clear path to the next steps. This was a no brainer.

Only piece of feedback is to send the slides the instructors use to teach sooner. Y...