The course is an excellent way for early PMs to acquire more knowledge and have better references when looking for frameworks that help us to make better decisions in our daily activities. The experience of having the course live with people with different product backgrounds certainly makes it richer.

Course content , lecturer and the other colleagues

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.