PRODUCT SCHOOL

The value chain proposition of the Product Manager (PM) School is unique. Why? It is the networking platform for your future job and at the same time the swift journey to the essence of the PM daily job responsibilities. They teach you how to use the same language as Google, Microsoft and other companies use. If you are clever enough you will be enrolled immediately after the course. 
The Product Managers who acts as a coach has a lot of experience that is shared through well designed content. The delivery of the course such as teamwork, profiling and assignments allocation could be improved but at the same time the course is already well equipped with the step-by-step manual to develop yourself as a PM or to learn how to develop your own product or service. 

I am a Technical Product Manager and I had the pleasure of learning and honing my skills in Product Management with help from Vivek at Product School in Silicon Valley. Vivek has in-depth knowledge of each and every aspect of Product Management. His ability to connect with students and his talent at teaching simple concepts, as well as more advanced topics, are both truly superior. He is willing to share real world scenarios and actual stories from his experience as PM at companies like Google, Instagram, Linkedin etc. I have seen a marked improvement in myself over the 3 months under Vivek's guidance with a general improvement in my current work, job search, and interviews. I have no doubt that Vivek is one of the most outstanding Product trainers around, and it's a pleasure to learn f...

I completed the Software Product Management Course with Product School and I would recommend it to anyone that is looking to transition to a PM role. Coming from a customer service background with little to no technical experience, Product School was the perfect place to learn the foundations of product management. I chose this school over others such as GA because of the focus and the amount of support that you receive such as the Slack channel and the weekly talks that they organize where you can network with existing PMs. The 8 weeks course had a small class size that included a lot of interactive group work. The instructors are PMs that have worked in the industry and provides as much theory and practical knowledge.
My instructor was Nima Shafiee and he was the perfect instructor ...

I had a great experience at Product School, it was definitely worth the money. Our instructor Jeremy was very knowledgable, accessible (open to questions in and outside of class), and set up hands-on activities that you can't find in a book. Thanks again, guys!

Product School was an amazing place to start my career as a PM. The PM course has fantastic reading materials with important product management principles. Each chapter has plenty of applicable real-world examples. The lectures and in-class exercises were very helpful.

My instructor Shendi Wang did a terrific job delivering course concepts and referencing her experiences from the workplace; she is the Director of Product Management at Mastercard. I highly recommend enrolling in a cohort taught by Shendi. Not only does she know what she's talking about, she goes above and beyond by being a professional mentor for her students.

I definitely recommend Product School if you're looking for a place to start your career in product management. I've worked a lot with product managers in my previous experiences and I felt like I had a grasp of what they do, which is why I was very interested in taking this course. Even though I have an idea of what they do, I still felt like I wanted something formal to prepare me for a career in product management.

I completed the course in the first week of August. There were definitely concepts in the curriculum that felt like review, which is mostly because I have worked closely with product managers in the past. But I was also introduced to a lot of new tools and concepts. The reading assignments I did for homework were excellent in terms of preparing me for the upcoming lect...

I highly recommend the Software Product Management course as an excellent baseline introduction for a Product Manager role.

Our instructor, Rich Headley, Lead Product Manager at Cornerstone, ensured the class was engaging for the students; he varied the pace of the course at times and shared great examples from his professional experience and sample work product.

Each class includes small group exercises and presentations, which facilitate collaboration and feedback. We built a strong camaraderie in our class; in fact, a few students offered to continue meeting (after the course ended) to explore enhancements for a consumer-facing product.

I gained insight into key success factors for product management and practice analyzing a company's vision, customers / persona, aligning...

Attending the Product School has been one of the best decisions I've ever made!
I've always wanted to transition into tech and the PS helped me understand that I would be a great fit in Product - not only that but it helped me develop a technical skillset for the PM role as well.

My experience has definitely been amplified and enhanced thanks to my instructor - Joel Palathinkal. Joel's an amazing teacher and an all-round great person to learn from and he's a fantastic mentor to have from the PM world.

For anyone who are unsure of what to transition to or want to develop a fundamental understanding of Product Management whilst learning core skills and tools for the role - Product School is A MUST!

Looking to hone my unofficial product management skills, I enrolled in the Product Manager course at Product School. The course was well structured and delivered a concise plan to get students to the next step in becoming a PM. Through a combination of lectures and class exercises we learned and actually used techniques applicable to a job in product.

Shendi Wang was a great instructor. She was knowledgeable and passionate about product management and delivered the material in an easily digestible manner. Shendi leveraged her vast experience as a PM to give the class examples of what we can expect to encounter and how to approach challenges. Her classroom environment was encouraging and made you feel ok to venture out of your comfort zone.

I’m excited to now have the tools t...

My path to Product School was inadvertent. Initially I was looking at product management as a transitional role to bring me closer to a dev role, since I believed a good PM would need to be technical to work with engineers. As I learned more about product management though I realized that this multifaceted role was actually exactly what I was looking for. I decided to enroll in Product School, and after some research and finding rave reviews I decided on Dr. Joel Palathinkal as my instructor (and I was not disappointed). Dr Joel brings his professional experience from a broad product background and this was most valuable for me in class. Anyone can learn product management from a book or online materials, but realistic case studies and insight into what a head of product looks for in a ...

Product school has been an excellent learning to me.
The class was very collaborative sharing experiences with the instructor and students from different backgrounds was a great experience.

Going to the 8 week course at Product School in NYC was one of the best decisions I could've made. I've worked with the product team for two years at my current job, but needed experience with the product development process. While I've worked on many releases, I didn't know all the in's-and-out's of how to build and launch a product. This course will help lay a great foundation for you to cover what you need to know to make the jump into product. It has a well thought out curriculum. The optional homework assignments give you a chance to apply what you are learning and provide a good challenge. You also get to bring the work to life through team exercises. They help you use your new skills quickly on-the-spot, while collaborating with others. By the end of the course, you'll know how t...

Product School was an amazing experience, especially since I had little to no product management experience when I enrolled in the course. The course itself truly takes you through every step of the product life cycle from ideation to iteration and everything in between. The lectures were informative, the notes provided excellent context, and the readings offered a fantastic in-depth foundation for everything learned in person. My instructor, Chris Maliwat, is a true product management veteran, having worked as a PM at some of the world's top companies. He was a fantastic teacher and provided excellent advice through lectures, hands-on projects, and interview/career prep. If you are seeking a career transition into Product Management, this course is for you. The tools to become a PM are...

The Product School offers great quality of education. Deciding to join Product School was the best decision in my life, no doubt about it. Thanks to Dr Joel my instructor who has supported me!

Dr Joel is one of my favorite instructors. He is very knowledgeable and very formal. He gives great examples and explanations. He is funny, smart, clear in what he expects, classes are fun and you actually learn skills. He cares about the students, he goes out of his way to connect with the students one-on-one, answers questions by giving real world examples, always available for students on slack/email, and he wants us to get jobs and helps us make contacts in the profession...which is the whole point.

Great person overall. Take his class, you'll learn a lot. I've seen a huge difference in ...

Product School is a great place to get a structured understanding of product management and start a career as a Product manager. I'm lucky to have the privilege work with my mentor Sudheera who shares enormous insight about not only what a product needs to know but also how a PM should think and act. I would recommend this course for people who are looking for new opportunities in product management.

Overall, I really enjoyed my experience with Product School in NYC. Our instructor was incredibly knowledgable, approachable, and genuinely cared about our progress. He gave such detailed feedback to our assignments and was always willing to share real world examples from his own experiences rather than just dictate the material.

I found the curriculum was really good but it seemed to lean more towards being a PM at a startup rather than at a more established company, so I wish there could be more content added about applying and/or transitioning to a PM role at larger companies as well. Unfortunately, I found the in-class case study exercises to be very confusing and a bit disappointing. The assignments need more clarification and could be improved. That said, the exercises for me w...

Product school instructors are practicing product management professional from top companies. Course is structured in interactive format and covers basic framework.
The external project does take time. On the downside I felt that personalized career hunt was lacking. Seemed that the instructor ran of time reviewing every students resume, perhaps another entity from Product school could offload the instructors and let them focus on core curriculum. Also student network dissipated after the sessions, it would be good for PS to organize happy hour to keep alumni and students networked after the course.

I took the Product Management class offered by Product School this spring. The course was comprehensive and touched upon all the phases needed to build a product. It was further enriched by our instructor Nima Shafiee's (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nimas/) personal anecdotes, tips and advices. His vast experience in the field of product management and across various industries helped the students enormously. Nima was always encouraging, ready to respond to the students' queries and giving constructive feedback. After taking the class, the students came out with a holistic idea about the product management and more confident to make a career switch to product management.

The course curriculum could have been further enriched if we had more material on data analytics and how it influen...

Really enjoyed this course. It helped me feel very confident in my past learnings and helped open the doors to new ways of thinking. The teachers are absolutely A+++ and are very up to date in the tech world!

Could not recommend more!

If you are interested in understanding how products and services are successfully implemented on Mobile and web platforms , Product Mgmt @ Product School(PS) is the place to start.

Before PS, I had no clear understanding on how to Ideate, validate, build and publish a great product.

Ashok Bania (PM at Spotify), our instructor for April 2017 cohort, is a brilliant and pragmatic instructor, who along with PS tools and course material, efficiently translated concepts and best industry practices of Product Management.
He cited multiple real world challenges and solutions, which has been great add-on to my learning.

And, it was excellent class cohort, with almost all of them having distinct professional background. So their inputs enriched our learning process.

So, while the...

This is a review of my Product School instructor Joel Palathinkal. I highly recommend taking this course with this instructor. He has an easy going demeanor and speaks clearly. He knows what he is talking about and is always ready to help. He is quick to provide meaningful and relevant guidance. He keeps the class going and engaged. Sign up. Don't wait.

Having fun with the class.

I spent a reasonable amount of time comparing General Assembly and Product School for the Product Management course including Instrucutors, course content, etc. and am I glad that I chose Product School! Based on other reviews for Joel, I decided to sign-up for the weekend classes (since he was teaching that cohort only), even though it wasnt the most convenient time for me, but again, so glad I decided to do that.

Joel is very personable and goes out of his way to spend one on one time with the students, he supports all course content with real world examples (which are abundant given his experience) and does a great job of trying to cover anything there is to know to get ur career started as a PM. Cherry on the cake is that he even invites experienced PMs to class sometimes to sha...

Product School have bought so many ideas and potential opportunities which I didn't know exist. Joel, my instructor have bought introduce me to so many platforms/tools to help me to become a product manager. I feel that the course is very valuable/informational for people who want to become a product manager and am not sure how to. I also love the smaller class and the group work we do in class.

Very eye opening, and informative.

This has been a great class with many knowledgable people from very different perspectives, which helps enrich the entire experience! Our professor is a Senior PM at Google who really tells it like it is and offers very valuable insight into the Product Lifecycle experience. He also provides interviewing tips along the way, which has been very helpful. There's homework and reading and outside recommendations for other material as well, which can be a lot of work, but you get a lot out of it.

I VERY much enjoyed my time in product school. I forged some amazing friendships, networked and developed a relationship with a mentor that I know will be super helpful going forward with my career. The course information was well structured, the project goals were accessible, easy to follow and the support staff was very helpful.

I'd say this program delivers what it says it does, but sort of hides some of the downside of getting a job in product management. It's hard out there and as much coaching as is available through the classes, the mentorship and networking, it really depends on the individual taking the course and HUSTLING. That's not their job though, it's ultimately (like everything in this world) up to the person willing to put in the work. This job definitely draws a ...

Course: 8-week PM/Location: Santa Monica/Instructor: Gio

I just wrapped up the 8-week product course and am really happy with my decision. I had an awesome experience and would highly recommend it for anyone who is motivated to learn more and get a more formal framework/education for how to approach product thinking to advance their career, become more effective in your job, or transition into a product role.

Since product is really the intersection of design, business, and engineering let’s start there.

Business: If you don’t have a business background, Product School gives you a nice overview of some key frameworks that help you structure your approach to problems. You don’t go super deep but if you’re someone technical or just don’t have a formal education in business this i...

My experience with Product School was really great. I moved from Spain to San Francisco at the end of September. And figured out that I wanted to became a PM without knowing much about a PM role. After this two month intensive course I feel like I know all the I need to know to start my career in that direction.
My teache Ryan Black made everything seemed easy, so even though a few times I felt a little bit lost, he immediately explained everything with examples so I could easily catch up.
The content was great and the project it self it was the best. We got to develop our own feature for a product and a company that we chose for ourselfs which gave as a lot of practice and confidence in everything learnt during the course.

Product School was an amazing experience, as it gave me the opportunity to learn about Product Management in a structured way and learn hands-on from very qualified teachers.
I attended the school in San Francisco and really loved the fact that together with the theory about product management, every week there were assignments that would give us the opportunity to try and test our knowledge on real projects.
I would definitely recommend this course to anyone who is trying to switch career path or wants to have a deeper understanding of product management.

The course is all about learning the best practices and insights from seasoned product manager. My cohort has a great instructor who would go out of his way and come up with more relavent materials to make sure he conveyed the concepts well. I believe the class experience rely greatly on the instructors.