General Assembly - reviews

This course distills the core fundamentals of user experience design into a comprehensive ten-week curriculum and pairs it with the extensive network of professionals, fellow alum, and instructors.Lectures were information dense, instructors were highly knowledgeable, projects were hands on and relevant, the support staff were helpful with ramping up towards the course, and providing assistance with networking, interviewing strategies, applications and the like. Overall this course was a fantastic experience that ultimately kickstarted my career as a product designer.

I'd always been interested in programming and computer science, but taking another 4-year university degree wasn't an option. After talking to friends who work in tech, I found out about General Assembly, and decided to quit my job and enroll in the 3-month full-time web development program. The pace was fast there was a huge amount of material covering all aspects of web development. The lectures were of excellent quality and the knowledgeable and experienced instructors were be available most of the day whenever you needed them. The course teaches you the popular languages and frameworks but the emphasis is on teaching you the skills and tools you need to learn things on your own, reflective of real-life scenarios. Site visits to tech companies and guest lectures provided excellent insights into the industry. Lastly, but probably most importantly, the part of the curriculum focusing on career strategies will teach you the most effective job-finding strategies, including networking, applications, and interviews -- IF you're willing to put in the work! Overall an amazing experience that helped me start a new career as a software developer.

This course offers high-quality information and tools to start a new career, and important advice is to concentrate all your energies and time on the time frame of this course because if you are not fully into it you go to throw your money. This is not like college that you have a lot of time, all the information and work is very condensed and you need to work on the go every day.

In my early years of my career I've had exposure to product management in a variety of tech roles, but at the company I worked for there was no discipline or structure on this. It appeared as though there were pockets of expertise on it spread across the org. I had a voracious appetite to learn more and found this essential to my career progression. I'm grateful to have taken the Product Management course with General Assembly as this helped fill in the gaps I needed to make the full transition into a Product Manager role. The course empowered me with the tools and knowledge I needed to take on a problem I was passionate about solving and transforming into a viable business product. I now feel a lot more confident and ecstatic to apply what I've learned in my current role and in my side projects. A BIG SHOUTOUT also to my teacher Andrew Kumar for helping carve out this new path for me.

I thoroughly enjoyed the program at General Assembly. The 10-week part time course was the perfect addition to my current skill-set as a graphic designer. The course was paced really well and the instructors were very approachable and understanding of our issues. The content covered was excellent as well. I definitely recommend this class if you're a designer like myself who wants to add user experience as part of their skill set. Ultimately the course is about what you bring to it. If you're willing to put the time and effort into it you're going to get a lot out of it.