[Animats]

The current offerings are:

- Data Analyst

- Project Manager

- UX Designer

- IT Support Specialist

I wonder how specific to Google products those courses are. It sounds like Google's answer to Microsoft Certified Microsoft Product Fixer certifications.

It's just courses on Coursera for $49/month.

[farfegnoogin]

For the IT Support Specialist, really none at all is specific to Google products. The major focus is Windows and Linux. When mobile devices are discussed both Android and iOS are treated in equal measure. ChromeOS is mentioned but never used really.

A lot of the questions and examples mention competing products like Office365, they don't mention G Suite at all that I remember. The brief cloud section is pretty general and doesn't discuss GCP in specific.

I see it as an abbreviated version of A+, Net+, and Sec+ in one. For someone at a beginner level I think it's a pretty good introduction to IT support.

[raverbashing]

Oh yes, let my project be managed by someone with a 6 mo course. I'm sure that will work just fine

[0_gravitas]

Six months of onboarding is plenty of time to form someone you'd want to keep around.

[raverbashing]

No.

Not because of the project management side (which ok, can be a long and specialized career by itself) but by the side of "how do you have someone manage something they don't know how it works" (which is needed in smaller projects)

[dredmorbius]

Products ... or internal tooling and processes.

There'sba long history of dominant monopolies structuring pedagogy and business skills training to their own internal ops, dating to DuPont, GM, AT&T, IBM, Xerox, Microsoft, Cisco, etc., etc., etc.