O'Reilly Online Learning Reviews

O'Reilly has the most publishers, so has the most books. Also, there is a nearly endless selection of videos, and a stream of live learning with experts, usually who are also their book authors. Other platforms are limited to a single publisher, but O'Reilly has themselves, Addisson Wesley, APress, Manning, Pragmatic Programmers, and so on. If there is technical content I want and it is not on O'Reilly, it is probably free, or it doesn't exist.

The audiobook feature is bad. There are business titles that I want on audiobook, but it is difficult to set it up to listen in the background during workouts or chores. For example, playback stopped when the screen locked itself. Neither Audible nor a podcast player do this.

It's everything you need to get good at technology.

As a software engineering manager, I need to keep refreshing my skills in order to stay relevant. If I want more than a blog article level of understanding, I need resources like this. This is the best one.

It combines the best publishers into one and O'Reilly's exclusive titles are consistently high quality issues. The search feature is always good at locating the best match for the topic. There is even an AI feature that accepts human-like queries and dives into the catalog to return snippets of text that match the subject.

The Android app is buggy. I haven't seen it improve this past year. The iOS app is solid.

The live session recordings can be challenging to find and rewatch. The user experience is less consistent here since they reside on a third-party platform.

O'Reilly helps keep tech professionals current in the industry.

The literature published through O'Reilly and their partners are best in breed. There simply is no comparison. I've learned some of the best tips and tricks through their platform. I've also been able to practice for exams using their platform along with study guides and sample tests. Additionally, as I continue to learn to grow personally and professionally, they always have something new to cover a topic that's up and coming.

It's expensive. But, like the old maxium, you get what you pay for.

I often want a trusted source with approachable yet thorough coverage on a topic. O'Reilly's platform offers that an so much more. They're a single source of truth I can count on to learn and develop my skills without the noise you so often find on the open internet.

The number of books, videos and other resources available to learn or improve different topics in the IT field and not only. Very useful when you need to improve your knowledge regarding a given topic.

Nothing to dislike. The overall services are very good.

Having an O'Reilly account gives the opportunity of reading or view content from many editors on the same platform, when I need information for a task or project I can find the needed information without wasting a lot of time

All of O'really's titles are available on the platform

Maybe the tablet/phone experience could be improved

It is my primary source of technical knowledge

I graduated with an MSc in Computer Science last year, thanks in part to O'Reilly for the many useful books available. I am currently working in the field of information security and use O'Reilly's services regularly as they are up to date, with the best books from the best experts available in fields that changes almost daily.

There used to be problems with the search engine, but this problem was solved about a year ago when O'Reilly enabled a lot of functions, you can search by publication date, publisher etc.

When specific professional issues arise, such as resilience,any subjects of computer science, risk management approaches, or preparing for professional exams (e.g. CISSP, CCSP), I can easily find books written on the subjects. I can look right through them, even by keyword searching to easily find the parts I need. I don't have to buy books that I couldn't use later. It is easy to take notes and summaries.

O'Reilly provides direct access to books, video tutorials and training to some of the most up-to-date data science content.

Would be excellent to have the books in a pdf-like format.

If you want access to amazing content, do not hesitate to access O'Reilly.

mainly theoretical background and technical solutions to some of my queries.

O'Reilly has most of the books required to stay up to date in my profession. I use O'Reilly in the browser, on the iPad, and sometimes even on my mobile phone to search for answers when I have a problem.

Most of the time, I find what I need in the catalog for my job. At this time I don't have any complaints about the product.

I have many sources of information, and I can access all of them with one annual payment. I can solve problems faster because I have all the information needed at hand.

O'Reilly is a fantastic self-service platform for professionals who need to quickly upskill or who need a battle-tested, authoritative take on a topic. It gives me what I need without making me jump through hoops.

The interface to get in and out of live sessions needs a bit of work. It's easy from an email and hard from the portal. Navigating it with back to back meetings means I need to prepare more if I don't want to miss the first minutes.

Training staff requires authoritative information that I can point them at. Training myself is the same – apart from vendor documentation, O'Reilly is the main "source of truth" among endless blogs that are more or less anecdotal.

I love having thousands of books to choose from, also adding books, courses, audiobook to lists is really useful.

I hated the previous audiobook design it was terrible, the new one is spot on.

Having all the content in one place without having to buy every single piece of content, just like netflix but for learning.