Product Gym by Elevate Reviews
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Anonymous
Make it Come True
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I luckily me Rich at a Product Gym meetup event. He is the architect to my success - revamping my resume, coaching me throughout the interview process and every step of the way in the job search process. Saying that I am grateful would be an understatement.
My success rate went sky high from no call backs to multiple, within the first week!! I started to gain confidence then clarity. Rich and his team focus on generating as many interviews as possible because those interviews serve to build your confidence. Go for it - Don't waste anymore time thinking!
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Anonymous
Perfect Fit
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I had spent years in Pharma sales. I was getting burnt out moving from contract to contract. I knew the trajectory I was on was leading me to Product Management. I had taken a $4k course somewhere else but wasn't able to land a job. Needless to say, I was wary about purchasing another bootcamp type of course. However, after speaking with Richard and drilling him down on a nearly 2 hour phone call, he convinced me that their methodology would help me land the job that would fit my experience and passion. After a painstaking and humbling course load, I learned how to interview well and was able to land my dream job with a healthcare startup! It's my dream job - I can't thank these guys enough.
Pro: They will willingly and thoroughly answer all your questions related to how this program will work for you. Get on the phone with them and ask them the real questions that matter. I've been tricked by reviews before and I sure wasn't going to take someone else's opinion. I needed to hear it from them and the proof is in the pudding. I got my dream job.
Con: N/A
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Anonymous
Finance to Product Management
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For me, the most intimidating part about transitioning into the Product Manager role is the technical aspect. I didn't have much experience in building up my technical skills because I worked mostly in finance. But, during the 6 week course, tech experts, some who were PM and some who were developers, would come and speak to the class. Listening to them speak about specific functions then working on the exercises, really helped build the confidence that I needed to start researching and fine-tuning the skills on my own. Being immersed in class with the instructors and my fellow classmates is also a huge resource. I watch and analyze how they answer questions in class, so I can see the differences from how I’m thinking and learn how to get to where they are.
Pros: I felt fully prepared during the interview process answering tech related questions and was also able to back up any exercise given with the knowledge I attained during the 6 week course.
Cons: This isn't for the weak at heart. You have to want it. You have to have a Type A personality. You have to be a driven person that plans and organizes, and can be responsible for many moving parts. You have to be interested in the field you are getting into and rise once you get there. There is no room for slacking off in this field and especially not in this course because it is a rigorous boot camp. There is just no room for slacking off.
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Anonymous
Currently a Rainmaker Product Management Interviewer Closer
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I was already going to a ton of interviews before I met these! I thought it was good, but I wasn't getting the offers. Rich took my interview game to the Lebron James level. I am forever grateful. The secret the closing offers is aligning your background with the pain the company is experiencing and delivering the message in the form of a pitch. And I have to say to say this, Product Gym's pitch training is on point. 100% on point.
Pros: Everything, Everything you need to know about interviewing is here. Don't waste another minute. I tried to do this on my own for a year. I did 118 interviews in less than 3 months and ended up with 4 offers. I have nothing but the best to say about Product Gym.
Cons: Its really hard work, but considering I got a $70K pay bump its worth it. I will talk to you if you do not believe me.
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Anonymous
LinkedIn Optimization Greats
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If you need help driving an insane amount of traffic towards your linkedin so you can do better interviews with the most exciting companies that hit these boys up. I interviewed with Google and Facebook, I didn't make it that far; but it is awesome just getting contacted from these companies. Interviewing is an unfair game and I really like the face that I have an unfair advantage with Product Gym by my side. Rich comes from a Tech Recruiting background, meaning he has a database of knowledge regarding how recruiters can find you. He helped tune up my profile so these top level recruiters found me.
I am not talking agency headhunters; these are recruiters that are actually employed full time by the most awesome tech companies.
Pros:
They helped me get better interviews with better companies.
Cons:
You might not always be ready to interview with the majors. When facebook reached out to me it was my second week in the program. I wasn't ready, but honestly there's no way I could have been. However, I learned more failing that interview than I could have reading another book. Learn by doing people, it's how we learn.
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Anonymous
Staying Focus on the Numbers
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The only thing you will need to know is staying consistent and maintaining a high level of discipline when it comes to applications and interviews. That's it. Everything else is secondary. If you lose focus of this you can go down a rabbit hole that is hard to come out of.
Pros:
They are very focused here on numbers. I mean I can't say that I am surprised. Rich comes from a boiler room, aggressive cold call background. So, you come in here thinking that you are learning about PM, but then you end up getting so much more. You get to learn how to generate momentum. Rich loves that word. Its that special thing that makes you unstoppable.
Cons:
Go get it. Don't complain about it. I love this team here, I feel really good sleeping at night knowing that I have a whole coaching staff ready to help me.
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Anonymous
Career Marketing and Branding Geniuses
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I was sending out the wrong resume to the right job. I am coming from finance and I kept you using a finance resume to apply to PM roles, it was clearly not working. Rich helped me tune it up and boom I average right now 4 to 7 interviews a week.
Pros:
Trust what they tell you to do about the resume. The resume defines everything. It defines your pitch, the scale that you can apply on, and everything else that is necessary.
Cons:
Don't spend too much time being fixated on the resume. At some point you have to go.
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Anonymous
Better Than Product School and General Assembly Combined!
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Would you believe me if I told you I was so damn passionate about being a product manager that I took a class from Product School and GA? That’s right, that’s me! I did it all, so I can tell you that Product School and General Assembly only focuses on your job after the offer. But how are we going to get there? I had great instructors from campuses, but you have ask yourself; does the instructor have the same challenges as you? It doesn’t matter that your instructor is working at Facebook, you are not working at facebook. Your instructor is not interviewing for you. Your instructor won’t interview for you. If your instructor has never experienced the challenges you have, then they can never really help you.
The instructors here and you get a freaking team of 10+ instructors, half of them were former students that are working PM’s right now that transitioned into Product with no Product experience. They know the pain you are going through right now. My facebook instructor was very good; but I don’t need to know how to facilitate design sprints, wireframe, or try to reach a group consensus. I need interviews right now. Within 3 weeks, I had more interviews than I could handle in less than a month.
Pros: Everything
Cons: Nothing
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Anonymous
12 Months of Access to Classes
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These guys are awesome thinking about this. I don’t come from the traditional background. Well, most of my classmates didn’t either; but I do learn better at my own pace. Product Gym provided me with 12 months of access to the classes and workshops, which was great. After hearing the data science portion for the third time; I get it now better than most. It was something that I was really interested in.
Now that I have landed the job; this information is even more pertinent to me than ever.
Pros: Like I said 12 months of access.
Cons: Honestly, I can’t think of any and I will tell whoever is reading this why. IT IS MANDATORY TO GIVE FEEDBACK HERE AFTER EVERY SESSION. Lol!!! Seriously. The founders here Rich and Cody immediately implement all the valid feedback; so even though this class is not perfect - these boys continuously improve upon it. They want to hear your feedback. I guess the only sad part is that some students don’t write that feedback.
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Anonymous
Management Consultant to Product Management
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As a management consultant that just graduated school a few years ago. My schedule is hectic enough as it is. I never have anytime to myself. Thankfully, Product Gym holds class both during the week for practical interview training and weekends where you can learn the fundamentals.
Pros: I want to give a big thanks to Rich! Coming in from Accenture, the travel schedule is unforgivable and I could tell that Rich was truly vested in me to succeed. Many of my phone calls with him were just me venting, but he is a GREAT LISTENER!
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Anonymous
Growth Hacking PM Experience
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One of my biggest challenges was feeling that I didn’t have enough experience. Rich and Cody helped me through that tremendously. I was always feeling worried about not having enough experience, but what Product Gym helped me understand was its not my fault. Not having ALL the experience is okay. It’s not my fault I work for a company that chooses to stay with waterfall. There was nothing I could have done about that. You are only going to develop the experience on the job and that was what they helped me do, LAND the job. Everything else was just so theoretical.
Pros:
Focuses on interviewing a lot. This place is all about interviewing here. More phone screens, more onsites, more offers. I landed 2 offers, both of which I am very happy about.
Cons:
The rates are going up folks! So, get in while you still can.
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Anonymous
No nonsense; Just Results
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The thing that is really cool about Rich and Cody’s program is they make a big emphasis on the psychological obstacles one goes through during the interview. Interviewing is never fun regardless who you are, but it can be less painful. With Product Gym they make fun. Its hard work, but its worth it.
Pros
These guys stress a lot about interviewing and I have seen with my own eyes the number of people that get offers here. These people MEAN business.
Cons
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Anonymous
This Place is a Confidence Accelerator
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I really want to thank Product Gym for helping me improve the confidence of my interview game. I am already a Product Manager right now and even though I have the skills required to succeed on the job, I completely agreed with Rich that one’s ability to do any job well has no relation to interviewing for that very job. This is definitely the case for me. The mock interviewing that Product Gym hosts is out of this world. They taught me how to gauge, lead, and dictate the entire interview process. The argument that Rich and Cody makes is that the hiring team has no clear direction on how to hire people, because if they did have a plan; there really isn’t a reason for them to speak with you at all. There is so much talent out there competing for the same jobs.
This is why you have to generate your interviews like a salesperson, like a hunter as Rich says. Interview for the role like you are an investor (you really are, because you are investing your time), and once you land the job .. treat the product as if you are the owner.
I have had a lot of ups and downs during this period and the entire team at PG got me through it. Thank you so very much.
Pros
Keep doing what you guys are doing.
Cons
Wish I had more time to party with Rich. This guy is a beast!
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Anonymous
12 Months of Class Access
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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.
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Anonymous
Most Diverse Instructors and Coaching Staff
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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 that simple.
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Anonymous
15 Interviews a Week
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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 week and on the high side I did 27 interviews. They showed me ways to game the system, I even asked my boss to work Fridays from home to handle the interview volume. This was hard work and it was all worth it because in the end I was able to land 6 offers. Rich and the team helped me choose the right one for me.
Just trust these guys and do the work. Right now, I bought something worth way more than $3,500; my freedom! I don’t ever have to feel like I am held hostage ever again in my life.
Thank you Product Gym!
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Anonymous
Case Study Support!
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This is where I was feeling very stuck. Case studies, take-home assignments, coding challenges, and whatever else you want to call be used as free labor. Case studies were killing my week. It was insane the amount of time it takes and still no guarantee for the next round.
Thank you Product Gym. Rich and Cody had a vault of case studies and provided me with a no-nonsense guide to how to crack it myself even when they did not have them (and they have a huge vault from most major companies).
I remember the medieval days when I had to reschedule, cancel, or postpone interviews because I had to spend all my free time working on these case studies.
Thanks for the support team. We did it fam!
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Anonymous
The Best!
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.
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Anonymous
They Never Gave Up on Me
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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.
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Anonymous
Sales to Product Management
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.
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Anonymous
Professional Pain Relievers
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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.
Cons: its a lot of work – a lot of, sorta trial and error, but very focused-educated trial and error, but really the best method. My only gripe would be to have more warning on how difficult the transition would be. It helps that everyone in the room is also going through the same pain, but I just wasn’t expecting so much time to be spent on this. I got my dream job so it just goes to show, if you want to accomplish something you’ve never accomplished before, you have to start doing something you’ve never done before
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Anonymous
Impeccable Career Support
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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.
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Anonymous
Best Coaches in the Business
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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 AnalyticsSoft
Product Marketing
Product Strategy
Cultural and Behavioral FitI 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, but it was worth it. Seeing all the students land offers was also very inspiring for me.
My advice for all of you reading these reviews is to take the class, follow everything they tell you to do, and commit. Don’t try to understand every little thing, because you won’t. You have to interview! Don’t focus on being perfect, because you won’t be perfect either.
Good luck, hope you see some of you reading this review at an alumni event soon.
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Anonymous
Above and Beyond!!!
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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 took everything else off my plate. They helped me stay focus, get out of my own way, and get out of my head. Now, I have the job I wanted after landing 4 offers and I could not be happier. Even after landing the job, they are still in contact with me.
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Anonymous
If you are interested in the RIGHT PM job; WORK WITH THESE PEOPLE !!!
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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.
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Anonymous
From Finance to Product Management
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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 from 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 help you generate interviews before you class starts, that way you actually come to class with questions about your interviews. Each class is structured around a particular interview category for that week such as:
Technical Engineering
Product Design
Data Analytics
Product Marketing
Product Strategy
Cultural / Behavioral
Product Gym not only had the answers to all the questions I encountered during my interviews; they bring top PMs and subject matter experts to help us refine our pitch. For example, their technical engineering interview questions are covered by a current lead software engineer from Google. The engineer walked us through all the questions from the perspective of other engineers that interview product managers.
This process took only 7 weeks from me, but I still get access to all the Product Gym classes for up to 12 months after I landed my job. I guess this was a another major selling point for me; with Product School and General Assembly I am only able to take their classes for 8 or 10 weeks. At Product Gym I can access these classes for up to 12 months. This is the best $3,500 investment I have ever made.
They are helping me now even after I started my job.
Thanks Product Gym! I love my job and I recommend anybody that is struggling to make the transition to enroll with Product Gym.
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Anonymous
Product Gym Rocks!
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I began working as an Intern for Product Gym in June with the intention of moving into the Marketing arena. After being exposed to an overflow of Product Management content, I became super curious about learning how to transition into the field instead. As an intern,I have the golden opportunity to basically take the Product Management 6-Week course for free and honestly even if the course wasn’t actually offered for free, it would definitely still be worth the investment. The things that I love most about this program is first, the courses are taught by real-life Product Managers who are currently, and have been working in the field for many years. This is great because we’re constantly being fed new and relevant information about Product Management which in a sense, allows us to have an upper-hand in the overall job search and interview process. I also enjoy the different teaching styles and different perspectives offered by the instructors. Second, the courses are for the most part very engaging and hands on. For me, I definitely learn best in this way and appreciate working with other people who share either the same or contrasting viewpoints that I have, either way it generates conversation.
Overall, the courses definitely challenge you on how to think like a Product Manager and the information is easily digestible for those who have little to no experience such as myself. Lastly and most importantly, I love how passionate Rich is about this business. He genuinely wants to see us win and land the job of our dreams. He literally does everything in his power to make sure we go out there and crush these interviews; the numbers can show you better than I can tell you!
For those of you who are still undecided about taking the course or transitioning into Product Management in general, I highly recommend you read the Product Gym blog or even attend an event hosted by again, real Product Managers not retired ones. At the end of the day, nothing beats having that one-to-one interaction with Rich as he personally coaches you through the process! He really, really knows his stuff! I’m only half way through the course and my experience so far has been phenomenal.
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Anonymous
Great experience!!
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The processes and methodologies of product management are often taught in a vacuum, and most programs barely scratch the surface. Product Gym gets it right and sets students up for success once in the job by diving deep and teaching the cross functional nuance that the job entails. The curriculum is designed as such because above all, the program is designed to help you land the job. The instructors were extremely credible and helped me think like a product manager, starting with how I managed my own job search. The program instilled the confidence I needed to interact with hiring managers across a wide range of industries. I would definitely recommend Product Gym to any aspiring product managers looking to take control of their career. Having done the Product Management class at General Assembly before enrolling in the Product Gym program; I can say with complete confidence that Product Gym is far superior than any other program on the market.
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Anonymous
Product Gym, NY
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I just completed the weekend Product Management course here in NY, and it was awesome. My background is in Tech Sales and I came into this program very insecure that I wasn’t going to be able to make a transition without any coding skills. The instructors really helped me boost my technical acumen and confidence. I am now able to not only just talk the talk; but I understand the concepts on a deeper level. The career support here is also phenomenal, they completed revamped and tailored my resume, linkedin, and cover letter to play to my strengths. Every week we were focused on a different set of interview questions, where the instructors helped us break down these question, and customize our own unique answers. Lastly, the most awesome thing about Product Gym is the army of instructors that they have. What really differentiated this program from the other competitors out there was they brought in a different subject matter expert every week. For my class we even had a Top Tech Lead to go through all the engineering questions with us. How sick is that? They also brought in UX Designers, Data Scientists, and Product Marketing Experts; just to name a few. I had a very positive experience with Product Gym and I encourage anybody that is serious about making a transition; to contact them.
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Anonymous
Product Gym is the Amazing!
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I have been working in finance the past 3 years and pretty much hated every minute of it. I really wanted to make a transition into product, but had no idea how to go about it. The main instructor and the entire team were so helpful. When I was looking up the competition; I noticed the entire market was mainly hosting PM classes with only one instructor. At Product Gym I had a team of subject matter experts on top of my main instructor that helped me in making the transition. They are awesome! All rockstars in their own right. They helped me with everything from gut renovating my resume to working on creating my own PM brand.
On top of that they have a VAULT of interview questions and walked me through how to navigate every question.
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Anonymous
Product Gym Review
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Product School was the most amazing experience of 2017. I had little to no product management experience when I enrolled in the course. Through a combination of lectures, assignments, and confidence exercises (Yes! We do them here.) I was able to generate 11 PM interviews by the third week of the program. We focus on PM Career Topics WEEKLY, not just concepts and theories; because the students are here to make a transition. Product Gym makes the transition and simple (not easy).
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Anonymous
Best foundation for Product Management
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I felt like I was training for the special forces and I may well be; considering how competitive this damn role is. During the first open house I attended here, I notice there were 76 people from every background you can imagine trying to break into this field. The staff at Product Gym makes this process and simple as possible for you. First, they sit down and talk about your goals and desires in making the transition. Then, they completely revamped my background from my resume, linkedin, cover letter, and helped me build a “back story” which I will love them for until my last days. The professionals at Product Gym are hardcore believers on GAME PLAN! After helping me tailor my own custom job hunting plan; we set out to generate as many interviews as possible. There is no hand holding in that; you just have to do it. By week 2 I was already seeing interviews coming in. Booyah!
I haven’t made the transition yet, but I am averaging 7 interviews a week with a higher and higher conversion ratio. I welcome anybody that is truly considering making a transition to just sit down with this amazing group of Product Managers and Career Support Coaches, so they work on a game plan with you.
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Anonymous
Phenomenal Experience
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My path to Product Management was inadvertent. I never knew what it was, until my friend (an industry veteran) exposed me to it and I was hooked. I read every book I could find on the subject, network ferociously, and prayed. There wasn’t a single book or person that was able to provide me with a roadmap of how I was going to leave my job in finance and transition into product. I didn’t want to take a job I don’t want at a company I liked; just to HOPE I could transition into product someday. Yes someday, that one f****ing day that never seems to come around. And then I discovered Product Gym; once I was blind, but now I see. Their Head Career Coach sat down with me for 1 full hour and broke my game plan. They told me what I needed to do inside and outside of class to be successful. In addition, I was also given a set of metrics to work with; 5 final round interviews. I just needed 5 final rounds and I will be home free.
I made the transition in two months. It was really hard and at times I really wanted to quit; but these guys wouldn’t let me. My advice to anybody looking to make the transition is to accept that this is going to be hard, follow the advice, and be prepared to do the work. -
Anonymous
Developing Rock Star Product Managers
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My instructors were all true product management veterans, having worked as PM’s at some of the world's top companies. Our Lead Instructor leveraged his vast experience as a PM to give the class examples of what we can expect to encounter and how to approach challenges. This was very helpful considering that most of the students in the class has very little PM experience. I particularly liked how they had a VAULT of interview questions. Each week you would learn how to master a very particular set of questions based on different categories. It was so refreshing to see students landing and passing interviews during the course. By the end of the course, in addition to the PM concepts you'll know how to generate interviews, prepare for the them, and work with your instructor to progress to the final rounds.