General Assembly Reviews

GA offers an extensive course roster along with flexible learning alternatives suitable for anyone's busy schedule. Taking one of their courses is simple and stress-free. The instructors clearly care about what they're teaching and it was an overall enjoyable experience that I'd recommend to anyone.

Not that this would be a consideration when taking one of their remote learning courses, but their Chicago based in-person location could use a bit of a facelift.

As a project manager I'm constantly being exposed to new teams with unique business functions, some of which can be rather technical. GA is perfect for grasping a high-level understanding of a technical subject and/or software with which you might be unfamiliar.

Their classes are well thought out and well taught. I love the huge array of opportunities and subjects they have. Even their free workshops have proved very helpful!

Sometimes the workshops act more like an advertisement for the other classes, rather than something actually worth spending 3 hours on.

They help me learn new skills from great teachers for a fair price.

The courses are just really well done. Broken in to chunks, well paced, short videos, follow-along content that isn’t arduous and also not a waste of time.

Some of the courses can be expensive and prohibitive unless your work can help support the learning.

Training on data analytics to better analyze and display our education data to decision makers. This is allowing us to make decisions that better serve our students.

I really like that General Assembly offers many live stream free resource options - from Data Analytics live streams to Intro to Digital Marketing. they also offer part-time and full-time classes

The paid classes are very expensive, I would venture to say maybe too expensive? I also wish that the streaming classes were accessible anytime, anywhere instead of having to sign up for a date and time. That would be so nice to be able to access it whenever.

Make sure you are well-versed in that area if you plan on taking one of their classes, as they are expensive and you could be paying a lot just to feel sort of lost on the topic. I suggest really diving deep into their free streaming classes first and feel around for the topic, making sure you are ready to take the leap for a paid class

General

I've taken four General Assembly courses and enjoyed the opportunities, instruction, coursework, and additional helpful information in all of them.

I dislike the pricing for the larger, longer programs. I wish they were as affordable as community college courses in my city.

Just go for it. There is a ton to of options out there in the area of career education and adapting to new tech-focused work opportunities, but General Assembly is one of the best.

I've been able to dive a little deeper into the areas of content strategy, customer/user experience, and other areas that are relevant to my work, but largely unexplored in my current professional role.

I love how much time and effort they put into every event - and each is so modern and up-to-date with what millennials need!

Honestly I just wish they offered more events in the evening so I could make them!

More online courses! Coding for example would be STELLAR -

Everything from networking to recruiting and connecting with like-minded individuals/inspiration.

I've been able to take advantage of a couple of the free courses at General Assembly. One on UX Research and one on Digital Marketing. It's a good starting point for getting a peek into an industry and a preview of what their paid courses might offer and give you. They also have hosted other free events around Atlanta for UX professionals. Great way to network and stay in touch.

They're paid courses are VERY expensive. It seems like a high-quality education center, but I haven't been able to justify the costs for myself yet.

Go to some free events. Get a feel for it and maybe consider investing.

Staying in touch with the ever-changing UX field. Getting a sense of how other companies are doing UX and what thinkers in the field are saying.

I took it on site. It was phenomenal. Adit I think was the name of the professor. It was last summer. Gave me a new career.

Lack of variety. They should offer a coding for product manager course.

Product marketing and strategy problems for my company.

I loved all the classes available in NYC for social media and for public speaking-really helped me grow my career

The classes can be a bit expensive and I wish there were more weekend options.

I've become a much better public speaker b/c of the General Assembly classes I've taken.

Not only do you learn from practicing professionals in the industry, they also put you in a network that you can stay in touch with and leverage for further opportunities

Course prices are really expensive and often unaffordable. They do, however, have a free class schedule, so those are always helpful to test the waters!

I went for a UX design course to General assembly and feel like I learnt immensely. As a self-taught graphic designer, the classroom was a great source of learning and I found I grew in the classroom really fast.