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Fits my schedule perfectly
What do you like best about the product?
I can fit learning into my schedule so I can make the most of my time dedicated to training and learning.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish some of the older content was revisited by the course instructors to gain the benefit of new advancements.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am able to keep up with the changing tools and technologies I don't get a chance to work with every day.
AWS Training
What do you like best about the product?
The AWS training has been excellent in preparing for the AWS Practitioner Exam.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would like the opportunity to take more skills assessments after each training.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Having up-to-date training available 24/7 has solved the technology gap, which support's Nationwide continuous learning environment.
Pluralsight courses are great, and speakers are easy to understand.
What do you like best about the product?
Most speakers/trainers on Pluralsight have great speaking skills, so it is easy to understand them and follow along. Sometimes the speakers can be slow, so I love the feature to speed up the content to around 1.5x to 1.8x. This allows you to absorb the content, while saving some time. The vast number of courses available are great, and they typically have a lot of content that is new and cutting edge technology. The fact that these are free training courses offered by the company is great! Courses that are similar offered by other companies are typically many hundreds of dollars. With Pluralsight being offered by the company, all course content is free. This fact of having low cost makes it a valuable option for training, and I can't think of any other reason why someone would not use Pluralsight training courses. Pluralsight training courses are one of the best ways for people in the job market to stay up to date on technology, various technical concepts, programming languages, and IDEs.
What do you dislike about the product?
I cannot think of any downsides or dislikes from using the Pluralsight courses. It is great!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am solving an age-old problem of keeping up with new technology and learning new programming languages. It is good to be familiar with certain technologies before you have to use them.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Take advantage of this training, especially if your company offers it free of charge to you.
Endless content and options to stay sharp
What do you like best about the product?
The variety and depth of content. There is a good variation of beginner level material all the way through advanced. I like the UI and dark theme. Seems minor but it makes the site more enjoyable to use and easier to stay focused for me.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some content is pretty outdated. With tech, things can change very rapidly of course. This no doubt makes it difficult to make a new course for every version of something. The most severe cases of this can make courses less helpful. For example a 6 year old jQuery fundamentals course is probably pushing it. Sometimes It is hard to tell the difference between learning paths and individual courses. As in, it can seem like courses are contained only within learning paths, but that is not the case.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Compared to competitors I can get more specific topics and choices, and can find them more easily. For example on LinkedIn learning, I feel like I have to filter through what appear to be near copies of the same course but they are actually slightly different. This is very unhelpful and I like that Pluralsight is more streamlined and specific.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Try setting a learning path and sticking to it. It is easy to bounce around when there is so much content available. Also I've found it helpful to find some shorter courses to buffer in between longer ones. Pick times where you can focus solely on the training as opposed to having distractions or passively "watching" while doing other things.
Ive used pluralsight professionally for two years.
What do you like best about the product?
The tutorials are in well spoken and they are very knowledgeable of the materials presented at the time of the tutorial release.
What do you dislike about the product?
Older 3D material may not be up to date, be aware that some old practices are not valid anymore
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Rendering in Arnold Renderer in Maya.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Its a great tool, just make sure you listen to the intro videos to make sure its what you're looking for.
The best platform for developing technical skills. Period.
What do you like best about the product?
I've been a Pluralsight user in several of my jobs, and each time I'm required to develop a new skill Pluralsight is the first stop for me. The quality of the content is what brings me back - it's more than just showing HOW to do something, it's often an explanation of WHY to do something a certain way.
What do you dislike about the product?
I'm not sure the best way to suggest new content topics or learning tracks. Perhaps a more prominent "Suggestions" section would help curate the content in new directions.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Recently I've had to do development in both R and Power BI. Coming from a background of Tableau and limited experience with Python, I wanted to approach these skills with fresh eyes and do my best to avoid biases towards the skills I already had. The courses offered in both new skills were very clearly laid out and gave me a ground-up approach that was effective at highlighting what set the tools apart.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
There are plenty of ways to study tools and develop new skills, but Pluralsight presents them in a simple, curated way and at a higher quality than I've found anywhere else. Their learning tracks and comprehension tests are really effective methods for developing your skillset in the direction YOU want it to go, and it's proven helpful time and time again for me.
I love Pluralsight!
What do you like best about the product?
The videos themselves are really great quality. I'm a C# .net web developer, and I learned a lot that has already helped me in my job. Also, there are a ton of videos ranging in all different topics, so I can teach myself additional skills for the future.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing really. If I had to nitpick, I think some of the presenters talk slow, but I can easily fix that by speeding up the video.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I needed to implemented a Umbraco 7 website, but only had experience with Umbraco 4. The pluralsight courses on umbraco helped a lot. Also, I had to use Entity Framework, and some more advanced LINQ, and once again, Pluralsight gave me the insight I needed.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Use it! You won't regret it.
A great resource
What do you like best about the product?
It's extremely easy to use and navigate. I like that you can measure you're skills so you can focus on the skills you need to improve most and not spend lots of time on an area that you are already very experienced in. The learning paths are great so you don't have to find the different courses/ videos yourself, you just do the courses in the order suggested and you can skip through sections you don't need to do . The interactive parts of the courses are really useful for getting hands on practice
What do you dislike about the product?
It would be good if there were more interactive courses as it can be challenging at times to spend hours watching videos to learn something. Quizzes at the end of courses to test knowledge would be useful to reinforce the learning and to guage how much of the course you understand and what you might need to look over again
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As an apprentice I have a lot to learn so Pluralsight has been great in giving me an insight into lots of different areas such as Testing with CodedUI, SQL, CSS and HTML and C# as well as networking.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's a really useful tool with tonnes of info on loads of different topics. It's very easy to use and easy to find suitable courses. Most topics have several different topics so if you don't like the style of one you can pick another.
Insightful and Inspiring
What do you like best about the product?
I love the detail and enthusiasm that a lot of the authors show in there subject matter. They give great insight and real world scenarios to there subject matter too which helps people relate to the courses. I also love the Pluralsight IQ where you can measure your knowledge and experience and share that on social networks.
What do you dislike about the product?
There isn't really anything I can think of, maybe setting a cut off date for course. Found myself watching odd courses then finding they were done in 2014 and technology has moved on.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Well i'm moving from more technical testing roles into more lower management roles things like test management, scrum master and the insight provided has been invaluable.
A great place of knowledge
What do you like best about the product?
The interactive activities are the key when you are learning a technical course
What do you dislike about the product?
Some courses do not have the option to see the subtitles
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This tool has been an important asset in the modernization initiative
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