What do you like best about the product?

I love to look through all the relevant courses for a skill by reviewing the detailed table of contents for each course. This helps me determine which specific modules of a course I want to listen to. I may listen to an entire course or just the portions I need help on. It's often good to hear two different instructors present the same concept to ensure I understand it thoroughly.
Although this site is promoted to working adults to fill skill gaps (or to build new career skills), I have also found it quite helpful as a college course supplement. I'm working on my second bachelor's degree, and the computer science courses are all offered online. This is more challenging than traditional classroom teaching because students must teach much of the material to themselves using the textbooks and material provided by the instructor. I had envisioned that the instructors would record their lectures (similar to MIT Courseware), but in the online program at my university, most instructors provide, little or no video instruction. Since it can be difficult to learn new technical material solely from a textbook, it is incredibly helpful to look up the concepts on Pluralsight and watch the relevant modules/courses to reinforce my understanding. Specifically, it helps to see challenge exercises completed in real time...especially when a step in the textbook is unclear.

What do you dislike about the product?

Many of the technical courses (e.g., programming languages) go through several examples that are not created from scratch. There are many times when it would be helpful to code alongside the instructor. If the instructor has a few "existing" files they will be modifying, all the files should be made available for download to encourage interactive learning.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I've been reviewing courses in HTML, CSS, and Visual Basic. I'm an instructional designer, and the main authoring tool our department uses for eLearning was developed in-house. This tool is adequate to create "slides" but the formatting is limited. Since the developers provide the option to customize each slide using HTML and CSS, I have watched courses on these topics on Pluralsight and now use the coding option to wield greater control over the look and feel of my eLearning content! Peers often look at my slides and say, "I didn't think our system could do that!" Then I can show them how to accomplish it by customizing their code. Also, sometimes the authoring tool has a glitch when the user attempts to apply multiple types of formatting to a selection (e.g., Heading 1, with some words in bold, some in italics, and others in a different font). I can easily fix these issues with surgical precision within the code/mark-up window instead of having to wait and request for a developer to fix things on their end (or worse, just giving up and accepting a default design that is less engaging).
The main benefits are affordability and well-designed instructional courses. It can be hit-or-miss (mostly the latter) when searching for a quality video on a technical topic on YouTube. Unfortunately, I have trouble understanding non-English accents, and many good videos that are on YouTube are presented by instructors who learned English as a second language. I have to keep rewinding some sections and attempting to read the horrible captions provided, and often I give up and look for another video. But I never struggle to understand the recorded instructors on Pluralsight, who all seem to be native speakers (at least the ones I've seen so far)...and the transcriptions are perfect, so even if there is a new term I'd like to see in writing, I'm confident I can find it in the transcription!
Although there s value in higher education (discussion forums, testing, etc.), I think video learning is more cost effective than university courses, and I can watch the videos multiple times if needed at any time of the day or night. Even if an instructor presents material in a way that doesn't connect with me, I can usually find another instructor who presents in a manner that's better suited to my learning styles and preferences.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Try out the skill gap analysis and course suggestions.

What do you like best about the product?

Consistent high quality teachers. Plethora of courses. Beginner to Advanced courses offered. Example files available for download. Course outline, speed of play option, bookmarks, ability to download and view offline, etc.

What do you dislike about the product?

The occasional exercise files that don't work as intended. It would be helpful to almost always include at least two demos for each course (this concept applies to beginner to advanced training courses): A "Hello World" and "Real World" demos. The "Real World" demo consist of a utility and/or application that you can easily envision being tasked with at a company.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Learning new software development patterns, languages, frameworks, etc. that pertain to current, past or future work projects.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Try it! I've taken numerous courses ranging from live to reading books, etc. Pluralsight's format and quality of teachers propels you into a vast playground of learning snippets that can truly help your career.

What do you like best about the product?

Wide spread variety of courses, ease of use and ability to access courses anywhere , anytime.

What do you dislike about the product?

Too many courses on same topic makes it confusing for user to pick up right course. old courses should be removed.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Pluralsight allows our employees to stay updated with new technologies available in industry and helps in creating multi-skilled workforce.

What do you like best about the product?

There are huge selection of courses and the courses are updated regularly to cope with the continuously changing tech industry. The courses are very detailed and the mentors try hard to make even the difficult topics simple to learn.

What do you dislike about the product?

Sometimes I don't find courses that I want to learn for my level. And some of the courses have highly specific content.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I work in a IT company that works in healthcare domain , I constantly need to update myself for the new tech trends and see if we need to start using them to improve performance. I rely on plural sight courses to start learning the new tech trends.

What do you like best about the product?

The sheer volume and breadth of courses offered is nothing short of outstanding.

What do you dislike about the product?

The admin section of the site could use some tweaking.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Training and education to help with career development for ALL of our staff (that are interested).

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Check out the catalogs and then compare vs others along with the cost.

What do you like best about the product?

Excellent courses, lots of diversity, great lecturers

What do you dislike about the product?

Nothing really.. Can't think of anything

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Training new hires, expanding our Tech stack. It definitely makes a learning curve less steep.

What do you like best about the product?

I love the hands on environment that is available in some paths. The ability to try out the code and then have it reviewed it spectacular.

What do you dislike about the product?

Sometimes the videos overlap in content which makes it hard when following a path. You want to skip what you already have learned but you don't want to miss something new.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Allowing employees to learn at their pace, with the topics they want to learn about.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

The hands on opportunities are invaluable for users to retain what they have learned.

What do you like best about the product?

Available topics for training. Some topics fit what was being looked at for courses.

What do you dislike about the product?

Lack of some key training options. Some mention of some course for SCCM being available but they weren't available. Some courses were a bit dated.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Training

What do you like best about the product?

Short video's that have great titles I dont have to watch the whole course I can focus and rewatch the parts I need help with.

What do you dislike about the product?

Only getting 1 retake on the IQ tests If I learn more I can not increase my score if I already used my retake.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Server admin, Development, Networking. Quickly build my knowledge on a new problem that comes up at work.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Great tool to keep your techs moving forward with learning ..

What do you like best about the product?

How the tutorials in the videos during the courses

What do you dislike about the product?

How the videos don’t work sometimes when I start to learn it

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Having files to download