Pluralsight Review [$3K Worth of Crappy Courses?!]

Pluralsight may have provided you the extensive number of high-quality courses necessary for your learning needs but you need to keep in mind this is an investment.

You have to spend around $29 to as high as $299 per month payable per year basis. For example, a course could be finished in 10 months, you're going to pay approximately $290 to $2,990 per year. That's a lot of money, right?

Pluralsight doesn't give you unlimited access to your classes enrolled. Once you graduate, you're no longer entitled as one of the students. Hence, you can't get the learning materials you need and used before.

According to Sean, one of the students who wanted to leave Pluralsight, can't cancel his membership with the platform.

Expecting the company would leave you alone after graduating, they don't. They continue to charge the account registered on the platform without refunding him at all. Not only him who has this concern, but the rest of the students ranting on the forums.

Neil, another dissatisfied student, revealed that although the real-time mentorship is accessible and available to students as per request, he noticed that there are some of them who discusses unrelated topics from the subject of discussion.

 He wrote, "They want us to pay a subscription to be able to watch rubbish talks and assuming that we never finish [realizing] that no knowledge is being transferred."

Andy Tomlinson, one of those students who once trusted Pluralsight now shared his sentiments to the platform.

"The courses are mostly terrible. Instructors skip important details. [The] code doesn't work, instructions are obsolete and often wrong," he stated.

In addition to the complaint, Pluralsight instructors include irrelevant materials for the subject leaving him a headache and "a keen urge to kick someone." 

Unlike the other reviews I came across with that commended Pluralsight customer support, TrustPilot revealed otherwise.

Based on the written complaint of Chad, another dissatisfied student, he mentioned about the terrible customer support experience he had when he's trying to refuse one of the offers they have for him.

"Their training material is good. [But] they don't need to rely on these unreasonable practices to try to force customers into paying for what they don't want or need," he stated.

Plural sight provides not only the extensive library for on-demand video courses but they also tackle the subject areas, namely: mobile, cloud, data, IT, security, etc.

As I mentioned earlier, all the learning materials including the high-quality videos are created by the experts and authors in the field. 

This is helpful to those who aren't familiar or not an English-speaking student. Through the CC option within the videos, it helps the students to learn the English language and get more familiar with it while learning the subject matter as well. It's hitting 2 birds with 1 stone.

Unlike other MOOC like Udacity, for example, you are going to pay around $2,000 within a 10-month course.

Pluralsight, however, allows you to choose which of the plans are apt for your learning needs and your budget. It's more flexible than the rest of the massive open online courses existing.

Aside from the online videos as the learning materials, you can also avail the mentorship option wherein you can request for live assistance from the industry experts depending on the course you are in.

You can choose the topic and discuss it in real-time through screen sharing and video chatting. 

Although Pluralsight is a bit pricey for some of its stakeholders, it does issue a certificate of course completion as EdX does.

You can see it as a chance to have a feel of how it is like inside Pluralsight, yet, you have to make sure you do that before the free trial ends. Unlike Udemy, you can't have an unlimited free option.

The Better Business Bureau (BBB) shows a high rating for Pluralsight although they didn't obtain their accreditation status.

Based on the records, the platform achieved an A+ rating with zero complaints recorded and filed against the company.

Although 69% of the students had a great experience with Pluralsight, the rest had a terrible one. From there, you can say that there’s an obvious duality in terms of perspectives from the students towards the platform and its learning opportunities.

As much as the learning material is excellent enough to impress most of its stakeholders, the inability of Pluralsight to automatically cancel the membership charges is the focal problem across different forums I came across with. I bet it’s the 31% of the students, who could testify to that.

“I tried them out and did not like them. I canceled my membership, and they still charged me. Three months later, they are still trying to charge despite the membership canceled,” an anonymous student said.

On the contrary, Pluralsight isn’t that bad but as I mentioned before, it’s pricey for most of the learners, unlike Udemy.

The latter has the option to access free courses or 90% discounted ones from its original prices. That’s a big opportunity to grab in a limited time. On top of that, Udemy still allows you to access the courses although you finished it ages ago.

Pluralsight doesn’t have that option. To me, the company does sound like Udacity and Skillshare combined.

They concentrate mostly on the coding courses, which are their popular courses, and they couldn’t grant the students lifetime access to the courses they provide.