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I had worked for 8 years before joining Le Wagon: mainly at Amazon in marketing, advertising and product management roles, and for a shorter period of time as Head of Acquisition in a French fintech startup. I have to admit I’ve always been quite intrigued about coding: I tried to learn PHP on my own when I was much younger and then had the opportunity to learn a lot about SQL and VBA at Amazon. A few months ago it became very clear to me that I was becoming less and less passionate about my job and becoming much more interested in the challenges that the dev teams were facing. On top of that I had been working on an entrepreneurial project which required coding skills to move forward.

I chose Le Wagon because of the very positive feedback I found across various websites, and also because two of my friends had already done this bootcamp and highly recommended it to me. As a result I had very high expectations… and I was not disappointed! The curriculums are perfectly designed to teach you new concepts every day that build on top of what you’ve learned the previous day. The staff is super proficient and the overall vibe is extremely positive and energetic. Although the bootcamp is super intense, I enjoyed every single day of it and still can’t believe how much I learned in such a short period of time. I would 100% recommend it to anyone wanting to learn how to code.

I'm a System Administrator who wanted to get into the coding side of things. I have some experience in PHP and Wordpress, so I already knew how to code. One of the reasons I chose Le Wagon was that they taught Ruby on Rails which I had zero experience in, both Ruby as a language and Rails as a Framework (or any framework for that matter).

Overall, I would definitely recommend Le Wagon, whether you have zero coding experience or you're self-taught like me. You spend most of the day doing exercises, which is the best way to keep what you learn. And you won't be alone either. You are paired with another student and they're also well staffed with Teacher Assistants. If you have a question about anything, there was always someone available with minimum wait.

You will also create an app from inception to completion, more than once actually. From User Stories, to mockups, to an actual app. You'll work in a team. You'll collaborate as a team. You'll even learn how to pitch as well. These skills are invaluable and hard to get experience as someone who is self-taught.

Also, once you join Le Wagon, you become part of a larger community of developers all over the world. Stuck on a coding problem? Need interview advice? Moving to another country and need job leads? Ask the community. Once you graduate, you're not forgotten at all. You are still part of their community.

OK, so even though this is just one out of 900+ reviews, Le Wagon deserves all the praises. Again, I highly recommend Le Wagon. As a self-taught developer, you will gain a ton of knowledge and experience, learn to collaborate in a team, create apps from scratch, and belong to an invaluable community of developers. If you are someone who doesn't have coding experience, Le Wagon is your how you get your best foot forward.

From a business background, I’ve always had a profound interest in the tech world. I started working in a startup in Singapore as Growth Marketer. Although I enjoyed this position, I realized that ultimately — no matter how good your marketing strategy is — it always starts with having a great product. For this reason, I decided to move into a Product Manager position to get closer to the product and have a bigger impact on its strategy. This position has been an eye-opener for me as I enjoyed the broad scope of activities that it covers (from customers interviews down to execution and product releases).
However, it also brought my tech skills limitations to light, and I felt frustrated at some point not being able to dive deep enough into the product development issues with my fellow engineers' colleagues.
It is for this very reason that I applied to Le Wagon to gain the tech skills needed to flourish into a Product Manager position.
9 weeks down the road I’m feeling much more confident with my coding skills and decided to start building my own web app — a content-curation tool for Product Managers — as a side project.

In short, Le Wagon has been a life-changing experience for me for the following 3 reasons:

* It totally demystifies web development
* It gives the self-confidence needed to start building my own project
* It gives the opportunity to be part of a great community with various background united around a common passion for tech.

I've only got good things to say about Le Wagon. They do exactly what they say: change your life by learning how to code.

I wrote my first Hello World in Python in 2018. I enrolled on Le Wagon in 2019, and now I'm working as a freelance developer with my first job within 3 weeks fof graduating the bootcamp. 

For me, Le Wagon stands out from other bootcamps because of its curriculumn: firstly, its product-oriented; and secondly, its focus is on Ruby / Rails. But they also have excellent teachers and a brilliant teaching platform (Kitt), as well as a global alumni network you can access through Slack.

Unlike other bootcamps (to my knowledge) Le Wagon is product-oriented. The last 3 weeks of the course you'll be working in a group of 3-5 people on a final project. It's a great way to expose yourself to agile developmnent, design-thinking, and gitflow. These are practical skills that you can only really learn by doing, and Le Wagon provides you with a great environment to do it in.

Their curriculumn focuses on learning how to learn: they teach you the industry best practice and design patterns that are going to be used by agenices worldwide despite what programmnig langauge they use. For example, my first commercial project used Vue JS. But I picked it up super quickly and did not feel disadvantaged by taking a course based on ruby/ruby on rails. I'm confident now to learn by doing, and that's something that Le Wagon gave me the skills to do.

That's always a major sticking point. People ask why the course is taught in Ruby. Well that's because the syntax in ruby is super easy for beginners to pick up. This is because (unlike JS) it's a programming language built from the grounds-up with a sophisticated design philosophy underlying its architecture: it's meant to be a human-friendly language. As a case in point, some of the handy syntax improvements in ES6 (implicit return, template literals) existed in ruby for years! So overall, ruby is fun to program in, and it's a brilliant medium to learn the basic programming patterns that are langauge agnostic (such as MVC). All good reasons to study in ruby.

But if you are anxious about learnng JS, React, Redux etc, Le Wagon actually offer an alumni track on these frameworks on their platform, Kitt, that is super good quality.

And finally, there's the amazing talent that backs the teaching of Le Wagon. The teachers were all excellent quality. We had UI practitioners as TAs during product sprint week. We had backend developers teaching us during the SQL and Active Record week. The course was well structured; all the teachers were personable; there was a wide variety of students and teachers alike; and there were happy hour Thursdays every week at teh coworking space.

You have access to Kitt for the rest of your life; when Le Wagon update thier curriculum, you can access these exercises on Kitt. Their Alumni are also very active in many different sectors in countries all around the world. So you're not just purchasing the time to learn how to code when you enrol on Le Wagon, you're participating in a global community of entrepreneurs and designers and educators. Like I said, I only really have good things to say about it!

If you are looking for a coding bootcamp to attend, if you are looking for new skills to learn, if you want to change your job, if you want to change your life, choose LeWagon! I was looking for an affordable coding bootcamp, I've been trying to change my job in this last years, as I have been a chef, but I always felt like that wasn't the right job for me. I tried to change my life, I wanted to change my life, so I found Le Wagon. I decided to attend batch#233 in Milan, as I live in Milan. I applied  also for the scholarship they offer to residents, and that was the best decision i'v ever made so far. It was one of the best and most intense experiences of my life. I leant a lot, the program is very well organized, there are a lot of topics, and a lot of exercises. Teachers are all great people, well prepared and ready for any question. I met a lot of great people during the bootcamp. We worked a lot, wrote a lot of code in 9 weeks, struggled, improved and learnt so much! Honestly it was tough, but it worth it, TOTALLY! 
So, i would definitely recommend this coding bootcamp, to you who want to change you life.
Le Wagon says: "Change your life, learn to code." and that's what i did!
Thank you Le Wagon. 

Before LeWagon I was working for Amazon in operations. I know what your thinking but the role was as far away from Tech as you can think. I was a manager in one of their huge fulfilment centres managing teams of up to 150 associates. Managing people is a role I enjoyed but I just couldn’t help myself from thinking there had to be something else.

I’ve always been curious about tech but I always thought that to move into that industry you needed a traditional tech background with a degree in computer science. It turns out I was completely wrong. I started going to tech meet-ups and found myself at a LeWagon demo day at Google Campus one evening with no knowledge about what a coding bootcamp was. After just 1 hour of listening to and seeing what the students had achieved in 9 weeks I was ready to sign up!

It was honestly the best decision I’ve ever made. I’m really into triathlon and had been working on an idea for a training plan web app, My Finishline, which I actually built with a team of 3 as our final project. I’m actually still working on that and almost ready to launch the beta.

The 9 weeks were filled with hard work, high five moments and loads of laughs with some amazing people. Ive made life long friends through the course and look forward to jumping out of bed to start coding every morning. That seems crazy considering I couldn’t write a line of code before the course.

If your thinking about doing the course, stop thinking about it and get signed up! You won’t regret it!

Le Wagon truly delivered a course that is life changing – quite literally giving you a skillset that can change your life.

I joined Bali Batch #217 having extremely little tech experience. I have been working as a professional chef since the age of 16, using my mac just for photo editing, menu planning and some movie editing for the last 15 years.
I started coding after being introduced to it by an engineer I worked with, who had a similar logical problem solving approach as I do.

After completing the prep work, I joined my classmates in our classroom looking over the beautiful balinese coastline.
I had no illusions as to how fast-paced and tough it would be, but before the end of the first week, I was ready to throw the towel in.
Guido and the team quickly resolved the issues, investing faith into the program, the teachers and the T.A’s.

I completed the course showcasing a complex web app, knowing how to pitch products, code to a high level and ready to be an asset to my next employer.

The biggest compliment I can give to the bootcamp is it works.
Behind the door, Guido and Dirk made everything flow seamlessly. The teachers and T.A’s are at the top of their game (with amazing skills that make me insanely jealous) but beyond all of that they are on your side – having all been in your shoes and spurring you on to grow, bringing the best out in every student.

Invest in yourself and join the bootcamp – you won’t regret it!

I was working as a banker for a couple of years already, but all my life I've been struggling with finding my real career path. That answer has never been easy to me, and with time I started feeling interested in programming. I did some research in Google in order to find where I could get deep into the field and there it was Le Wagon with its intensive programme, which hooked me right away. I digged a little further so I could consider other options, but after seeing lots of excellent reviews, its positioning in specialized magazines bootcamp's rankings, and talking with former students, the decision was very clear and so I chose Le Wagon for this new career path. I was looking to change careers and couldn't expect spending too much time in the process. I wanted to learn, fast, and be able to start working with it as soon as possible. I had the motivation, so their high promises in terms of skills-to-gain, fast-paced learning curve, and product-oriented programme was a perfect match for me.

During my time, there were lots of things to remark. But if I would have to choose a few, I would say that actually having the feeling of wanting to wake up early every time to go the course it's something that never happened to me before, which I welcomed gratefully. Moreover, the atmosphere was just amazing, all the group was completely focused an helping each other, as everyone came with the same goal, which motivated and encouraged me to keep working and do better every time. Furthermore, the teachers were completely capable and the agile methodology was also a very solid point of the bootcamp: Lectures lasted long enough (not more than 2hs) and the rest of the time was spent in solving challenges, which made it easier and clearer to learn, but mainly WAY MORE FUN. Last but no least, leaving the bootcamp with an actual product in your hands, building it from scratch, it's a more than useful experience and advantage for future job opportunities.

Being based in Barcelona was just the perfect plus for me. The weather is great, the city is beautiful, you are close to the beach and the mountains, you can find people from all over the world, and there is a huge variety of options for either day and night life.

So to sum up (and I guess if you read this far you already know this), I would definitely recommend Le Wagon and Barcelona! I have to admit that making this investment was not an easy decision, but I do not regret it at all, it was definitely one of my best experiences ever. For you guys, if you are certain about your interest in programming, then this is the bootcamp to choose. My advice for you is to be really commited to work hard those weeks, specially in the first ones when eveything starts getting a little confusing; but do not despair! In the end things will workout and wou will feel rewarded, with lots of new skills, and a new fresh product to feel proud of.

If you are looking for a career change or just to learn a new skill, sign up for Le Wagon now! I had zero coding experience when I enrolled and by the end of the course, I was able to build a website from scratch. This course is worth way more than it costs. It has given me the opportunity to change my life and pursue a career where my skills are in high demand. The course itself is done extremely well and the staff are incredible. I took the course in Milan and cannot speak highly enough about the staff (and the food). The instructors are extremely knowledgable and always there to help, even outside of the classroom. You can get so much out of the bootcamp if you are willing to put in the work. After the course, Le Wagon does a great job of preparing you for what's next and assisting you as you start the search for a job. I am extremely thankful for my nine weeks at Le Wagon and the things that I learned, the friends that I made and the opportunity to do something new.

After finishing university a semester early, I wanted to develop some technical skills to supplement my business major. I had first heard of Le Wagon through a few different friends who had done the boot camp before, and I knew that it was something I had to check out. I did my research, and I found that Le Wagon was priced way more reasonably than other boot camps, while still able to teach me the skills I needed to become a web developer. I interviewed, completed a prep course, got into the program, and started in January. The boot camp was life-changing. By the end of it, I was able to build an application that I wanted to (the back end, the front end, all of it). On top of that, there was an amazing community/cohort feeling, and you could tell that everyone wanted the best for everyone else. Not only were the teachers more than willing to stay long hours to help you, but the other students were also supportive and helpful. I would say that the two most valuable things I got from this course are: 1) HOW TO LEARN on my own and continue to develop my coding skills even after the boot camp, and 2) the alumni network (I'm not currently looking for a developer job, but based off the job opportunities that are constantly shared, it seems like there are many opportunities from other alumni as well as from firms that know about Le Wagon). Overall, I would HIGHLY recommend this boot camp, especially to students like me who are interested in both coding and living abroad (they have campuses all over)!

Learning to code has been one of the best decisions I have made in my life. Out of all other bootcamps, I choose Le Wagon London because they were rated the number one bootcamp in London and had the highest number of positive reviews. My experience at Le Wagon London has been extremely positive.  

It has been a tough 9 weeks, but I loved every moment of it. I got to meet fellow students from all different nationalities and professional backgrounds. 
Le wagon staff has been very supporting since day one and all teachers and Teaching assistance have done the bootcamp and because of this they understood the syllabus very well and knew how to support us specially during tough weeks. 

I came from no coding background and after completing the bootcamp, I am able to successfully build awesome web applications and have the skills to continue learning other technologies/languages out there on my own.

I not only learn how to code, but I also made greats friends thanks to Le Wagon London.

During my banking career I wanted to return to my passion - programming. I already knew about Le Wagon and the very good feedback it has so the choice was easy for my new start !

This great experience started since my first day in Paris, being part of the batch #201. In just 9 weeks I was able to build great web applications and projects.

Within two months after this great and intense experience, I was able to find a job. Now I'm a Project Manager and Fullstack Developer.

It was the best choice of my life and for nothing else I would choose another school than this one.

So if you are looking for the best and want to live an amazing experience I highly recommend you to join the fullstack program. You will learn all the coding skills needed to start a new career or to improve your knowledge and meet amazing people everyday !

If you are reading this, it probably means you're considering applying to Le Wagon bootcamp. If you are anything like me when I discovered this program, you're drawn to the 9 weeks duration as well as the promising tagline: 'Change your life, learn to code'.
Well, I can tell you I've just finished the bootcamp and for sure I changed a ton. It's not just learning new things, it's mostly about being immersed in a completely new dimension for 9 weeks, challenged every day by interesting, modern concepts and amazing human beings from all over the place.
Long story short, I was somewhat inspired by the idea of becoming a developer after reading a really long article on the topic. I discovered that Le Wagon bootcamp was also in Milan—I live close by—and I decided to attend a workshop just to have a peek around. Once there, I felt an immediate connection with the staff and the environment, so much that I really felt like it was the right choice for me.
Le Wagon it's not just an awesome bootcamp, it's a growing community of heterogeneous people with a lot of grit and passion for what they've learned to do in just 9, shared weeks.
All you need to make the best out of it is a firm willingness to commit and trust the trainers: they really know what they're doing and they just want you to succeed.

Graduating from a business school, I was looking out for a new direction to expand my skillset, and, in particular, a way to combine my past experience and knowledge to create tangible value.  Web-development answered all my needs and I thoroughly researched all my options before I decided to trust Le Wagon.

The school felt like THE right place from the moment I got in touch with the admissions team, who make you feel as welcome as you are at your own home.
The 9 weeks I spent with Le Wagon in Barcelona allowed me to fully immerse myself into one of the most motivating, productive and intensive environments I have ever experienced, all while being surrounded by the some of the most collaborative, positive and outgoing people I could ever meet.

The course syllabus and the web-based teaching resource platform, available to you for life, are incredible in the way they allow you to learn at your own pace, while diving into just the precise amount of detail, thoroughly vetting all the information you need, providing you with the opportunity to continuously expand your skillset forever, collaborate with the amazing ever-expanding community of Le Wagon, or just to freshen up your knowledge.

However, the true highlight of the campus were the teaching staff who never seized to inspire and undoubtedly provided me with all the best guidance and support I needed to embark on my coding journey. Bolstered by the entrepreneurial focus of the camp and the final project weeks, I now feel confident that I can successfully join and contribute to the tech ventures of tomorrow.

As a Product Owner working with developers, I’d always been curious about programming languages. I had learned some HTML in business school then some CSS on Codecademy 
but it didn’t quite feed my curiosity. So after 4 years as a product owner, I decided to take a gap semester from work to finally learn to code!
As a good business student, I studied the market to evaluate my options and rapidly two programs stood out. I reached out to alumni from both programs and that’s when Le Wagon became an evidence; an evidence because of its community and its network! Alumni were super available to answer my questions and gave me tons of advice.
The 9 weeks were amazing and went by so fast. Everyday I got to learn new ways of thinking, discover new concepts and take on new challenges. I really enjoyed the program schedule (and yoga classes). This experience taught me a lot and brought me the confidence to basically do anything!
Indeed my plan is now to move to the south of France soon where I’ll settle as a Fullstack Developer (either in a company or as a freelance).

The Wagon is one of the most fulfilling experience of my life.
At le Wagon, we don’t just learn code, we learn why we do it and how to do it right.
The spirit is awesome, the teachers adapt themselves to each and every student, so no one is left behind.

I can’t believe the experience I gain in only 9 weeks. I feel I have a backbone now and I don’t feel ashamed to call myself a developer, thanks to le Wagon.

The fun thing is when you’re there, you’re not just part of a batch, you just have been welcomed in a big family (a 4000 people family). A family which support each other, raise each other and understand each other.

The 9 weeks program is like a marathon but inside a formula 1. You know it’s long and hard but when you watch where you came from, you can’t realize how far you get in just few weeks.

Now I’m at the beginning of my new career, I know I still have a lot to learn (and I will learn all my life) but one thing is sure, I am not afraid.

If you’re still asking the question, should I leave that job which makes me feel miserable, don’t hesitate anymore, take that leap, you won’t regret it.

Before Le Wagon I was working in Ad Tech in London, hacking together automated advertising solutions for clients using Google sheets, Zapier and any other 3rd party solutions that required no coding ability.

Doing this I eventually started to realise that there were massive opportunities I couldn’t take advantage of because I couldn’t code, which is why I decided to join Le Wagon.

Le Wagon Bali itself was incredible. Despite the tremendous amounts you learned each week the teachers had an incredible impact on the overall mood. The teacher to student ratio and the ticket system meant you never had to wait too long for a ticket to be solved and if a teacher needed to sit with you for a few hours to explain something, they could!

On the course I met people from all different walks of life and this definitely inspired me to consider opportunities I would not have previously. And I couldn’t have wished for a nicer group of people and I feel like I have definitely made some lifelong friends.

Also being in Bali is incredible. Everytime you get stressed or frustrated you can have a look at the ocean from the classroom or go down to the beach or even visit one of the many (many) great coffee shops. And Le Wagon worked really hard to organise trips on free weekends so you could make the most of being in paradise.

Le Wagon not only gave me a great toolbox of coding languages but also taught me how I could teach myself more languages. A lot of the focus was on self-learning and preparing you for when you don’t have a teacher by your side. This was especially true for final project week. Being able to take my own idea to a fully fledged progressive web app over the course of the last 10 days and be able to present it to a room full of people was probably one of my proudest achievements.

Now that I have finished Le Wagon I am currently considering whether to take a job at an exciting new startup or try to realise some of my own business ideas, but whatever I end up doing, I’m sure the learning doesn’t stop now.

I’m an entrepreneur since 2014 and I enrolled at Le Wagon Paris at the end of 2018 for 9 amazing weeks. It was one of the most intense and great experiences of the last few years. You can completely trust them to benefit from a bootcamp very well structured, teached by strong professors and teaching assistants, and with moments of fun and cheerfulness.
Last year, I wanted to create a new project, in line with my company. This project is a booking plateform 100% online and 100% automatized, which needs a powerful app. As I had no skills or even 0 knowledge in coding, I first thought to subcontract the creation of the app. By subcontracting I would have “lost control” of the production, what I didn’t want to do. Then I discovered Le Wagon and told myself it could be amazing to learn to code in only 9 weeks. This is an essential skill if you want to create a startup. Not only to code yourself, but also to be able to understand what the developers do. If you want to discover this world, jump on a big challenge, gain new skills and open job opportunities, I really recommend you Le Wagon :)

I completed Le Wagon Full Stack Bootcamp end of 2018 in Paris, this course is well structured and balanced, adapting to your level. For the record, I had no previous code experience. 

Over 9 intense weeks, I learned how to program in Ruby and structure Web Application. This course gave me all the key foundation about programming and how to be autonomous in learning about code. 

I can only recommend this course, the staff and their learning method is exceptional. 

Regardless of your previous experiences, and your reasons for doing this course is a experience you won't regret!

I became interested in coding through essentially through big data analytics. Before Le Wagon I worked in genetics, which generated a lot of data and could only be analysed through tools and methods. I decided to do a short course in Python as it was only a weekly course, however I didn't find it engaging enough. I needed a more immersive way to learn, found Le Wagon and quickly realized it had the best reviews.

The first few weeks of the course were challenging but enjoyable. On hindsight I should have prepared better for this part of the course, but nevertheless I learnt a immense amount in a short period (make sure you do the prep-work and flashcards!). The teachers and TA's are incredibly friendly, patient, open to questions and are always ready to help. I wouldn't have gotten through without them!

Final 2 weeks gave a valuable insight into how it would be like to develop and code in a team, this was the best part of the experience for me. The atmosphere changes and everyone really starts to buckle down to meet the demo day deadline. Here's the app we created https://gorillaboxco.herokuapp.com/

Finally when you sign up you're not only joining a course, but a whole community, with help only a type away.