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After an internship as a business developper in a tech start-up in NYC that only highlighted my lack of technical skill I decided to take a whole gap year to learn how to code. 

Le Wagon seemed to me the best option to start the year. All I can say it's that it has exceeded all my expectations. The program is well designed, the teachers are very good and motivating, the alumni network is really strong. 

I am such a big fan of Le Wagon that I stayed there as a teaching assistant and now as a teacher for the next batchs of students. 

I can easily say these 6000+€ has been the best investment in my life !

My name is Matthieu, I’m 29 years old and I’ve recently completed the 9 week bootcamp at Le Wagon. The idea of following Le Wagon’s formation came to me after few years working in the law industry.

Amateur of computer science, I wanted to develop my programing skills but did not want to spend more time than needed. I wished to be able to start working in this field ASAP. Since a few years, many companies offert this kind of quick formation and it’s hard to know which one to pick. I asked around, to friends, in the headhunting industry for instance, and many of them talked to me about this bootcamp. Unfortunately, when I  applied, there were no place left, so I decided to follow another course until the next session. 3 month later, I finally enrolled at Le Wagon in Paris.

The fact that I had followed a previous formation in programing helped me for the first days. Mostly, it enabled me to realize the benefits such a bootcamp : qualified, available and caring teachers. As far as I know, the programming community is full of helpful people and for most of your interrogations, you can find answers online. But for a beginner, having someone near you, explaining why your code went wrong is the easiest way to learn quickly. Besides the schooling, Le Wagon organises many events, allowing students to meet inspiring people (alumni, freelancers, CTOs, CEOs…)  which is very helpful to build a network if you’re new to the tech industry. It helps you to decide which position you would like to hold after the bootcamp.

After 3 years in business development in startups, I was frustrated not to understand the code behind tech products so I did Le Wagon! It was a learning blast!  I constantly learned during 9 weeks and I really appreciated the mutual assistance from co-workers and alumni. I had the image of solo developers and was surprised by the team spirit. I also found it really playful to solve problems and had the opportunity to pitch my project about employee perks and to construct a MVP with a great team. It gave me wings so as to continue to develop our demo project called Luma and try to make it grow for bringing happiness to employees.

After 4 years in a fast-growing startup, I decided to leave the company few months ago as a Product Manager. I joined le Wagon because I experienced a lack of technical background within the product field & felt that it was option for me to do. Indeed, I learned a lot about computer programming and now I see beyond the mockuping and design tasks that are regular for PM’s. All the skills that I learned help me now to go deeper into my job and explore infinite options to create awesome products. I highly recommend le Wagon to every PM/PO willing to level-up.

After 3 years working in support functions for a Tech Startup, I was frustrated not having a better understanding of technical topics.
I decided to develop coding skills with Le Wagon to find a job as product owner after the bootcamp. But the quality of the program made it really fun to learn and now I have decided to go on and improve my skills to actually find a job as web developer.
Also gathering different kind of motivated people from diverse backgrounds to develop new expertise created a great atmosphere.
I didn’t expect Le Wagon to have such an impact on my professional objectives and I highly recommend it.

I worked as a business developer for a tech start-up for three years, and I’ve always been fascinated and amazed by what the engineers can do with code. 

I chose Le Wagon for its community, its entrepreneurial mindset, and its product-focus approach in learning how to code. It’s the process of building an application with teammates from start to finish that solidified my understanding of what it’s like to be a software developer, and most importantly, how to communicate as a developer. 

We learned the coding fundamentals, the thinking to solve problems. We tasted the grind to collaborate with others to build a product. We were also trained to pitch and demo the product we created. It was genuinely astonishing how much information Le Wagon manages to teach you in just nine weeks. 

Always within reach, the instructors and teaching assistants were there to provide comprehensive explanations to help you grasp difficult concepts and point you to find the answer yourself. They are motivated to share their knowledge and experience to ensure that you understand every topic.

Le Wagon has given me the tools and knowledge to keep on learning and exploring the world of software development.

Before Le Wagon, I was Head of Operations in a start-up in the Foodtech industry. 

I wanted to add technical skills to my resume and I choose Le Wagon which seemed to me the best "product-oriented" coding bootcamp.

During 9 very intensive weeks I learned a lot, about RoR, HTML, CSS, JS etc.... but also about myself. I haven't been that challenged for years. I'm also glad I had the chance to meet all these people with very different backgrounds.

I'm still impressed by the strength of the student / alumni network. Following the bootcamp I had great job opportunities from Le Wagon's alumni / entrepreneurs.

I'm now about to start a new job as a Head of Product Mobile.

I came to learn code, I have lived a great human adventure and probably the best educative experience ever.
Behind learning programmation, my 3 main motivations were 1-To have better understanding of the world I live in 2-Get the technical knowledge to create a business 3-Meet new people and a potential business partner.
After 2 intensive months I have difficulty to realize I have learnt to code in more than 6 langages (Ruby, Regex, SQL, HTML, CSS, JS…), and I am now able to code from scratch a web app and deploy it online in less than one week. I have been amazed by the quality of the lectures and the strength of the educative platform, enabling you to practice with a tailor-made approach, at your pace. The priority is clearly given to action and practice over theory (only 1h30 per day), and the last 3 weeks are dedicated  entirely to projects.
And when the 2 months are finished ... it’s just the beginning ! It feels great to be part of a big & active alumni community full of wannabe entrepreneurs like me and potential partners for the future business I am working on.

I joined Le Wagon Paris for the Batch 201 in october 2018 after a master in financial engineering. I wanted to start an entrepreneurial project but I only had a visual idea of the product I wanted to launch. 

Initially, le Wagon bootcamp was an opportunity for me to rapidly get technical skills so that I could define needs for my product and work with developers.
Finally, after the bootcamp, I decided to wait before starting my project and I am currently improving myself as web developer in freelance.

Le Wagon bootcamp made me love programming thanks to its teachers and a great atmosphere. Even if we all have different background and come from different sectors, we are all here with the same goal : learning to code. I found that the daily format (course in the morning and working in pairs during the day) of the bootcamp was tailored to learn and improve quickly regardless of levels. 

Beyond the bootcamp itself, I really found interesting the workshops and talks that were organized. It is a good way to get inspire or to get informations on different jobs in tech. It is also always a good reason to have a beer with your buddies after an intense day !

Finally, when you join Le Wagon, you join a community that helps you during the bootcamp, but also and mostly after the bootcamp, to find a job or support entrepreneurial projects.

I started to work in the Tech industry after graduating from Business School in 2014. I was lucky enough to work in different teams, on various cool projects. But as time was passing by, I was getting more and more frustrated: although I thought I was getting the big picture, I had absolutely no understanding of the technical aspects of the products I was selling.

About a year ago, a friend was telling me about the Wagon and how it completely changed his way of approaching things and tackling challenges. That’s when it hit me: I realised I was never going to be fulfilled evolving in a sector that was so impenetrable to me. 
I decided to quit my job and join the adventure, although I was a kind of dreading going back to school… 

This was hands down the best decision I ever made. I met an amazing crowd of students, teachers and alumni. The program is dense, but well thought through, to such an extent that it kept on board 44 students with completely different levels of studies, knowledge or experiences. 
I never though you could pack so much in 9 weeks, and how rewarding it could be to finally understand the logic behind concepts that I had been exposed to for over 4 years.

I’m now in the process of starting up my own software company, and I clearly wouldn’t have been able to do it without the bootcamp. It has given me the ability to be independent on so many aspects, and I truly believe it is a life changer to anyone questioning their future. Go for it, you won't regret it!

How simply describe this adventure. I joined Le Wagon for a very particular reason, learn to code in order to be able to code my own project. So, I was in the small club of the aspiring entrepreneurs, a minority in Le Wagon Students. Being from Finance (not the mathematical finance), I wasn’t very familiar with web development, and I haven’t good memories about learn to code at university. I was member of the « Nooo, code is just not for me ! » team. But Frankly, my 2 months experience with Le Wagon reconciled me with coding.
First, the program helps you to build a coding knowledge from scratch, which was a very important point for me. Beyond knowing about HTML or CSS, building basic program with Ruby gave me the necessary background, and the desire to learn more. The firsts « Oh, that works! » were really important for me to break down the psychological barriers about coding. Thereafter, it became a game. Each day, we had new challenges. And each day, we felt stronger that the previous day. The last two weeks with the final Projects were the most exiting. It was at this point that everything we learned before swung into action. To conclude, I would just said that doing Le Wagon was a great experience. I liked the pace (morning courses then all day long to succeed the challenges), the Le Wagon crew (a large and available team of caring teachers), and the atmosphere (in and outside the classroom). OK, I’m not for sure now the best of the web developers, but I now know that coding is actually not that complicated, and that's what makes all the difference.

Having studied Politics at University and spending almost two years working in Fashion, although I could speak of my communication and organisation skills, I often regretted not having any ‘hard skills’ in the working world. What is more, I didn’t feel particularly fulfilled or mentally challenged in my day-to-day work. When I started applying for new jobs, it became clear to me that to break out of the industry my CV now anchored me to, I would have to finally step up to the challenge of developing one of these ‘hard skills’ I secretly wish I had. I had heard of friends learning to code and loving it, although I didn’t think I was good enough at maths or clever enough to try it myself. I decided to play around on Codecademy and actually found myself having fun, and so I decided to apply to Le Wagon. It is safe to say, I have absolutely no regrets! In 9 weeks, I have been able to learn so much and enjoyed every minute of it (even the struggles!) Other alumnis had warned it would be intense, which it is, but it’s such a great learning environment and I never felt too discouraged to keep pushing myself. Le Wagon has now got me hooked, and now that the bootcamp is over, I want to continue learning to code and hope to find work in tech as either a dev or product owner!

I finished my end-of-course internship in cosmetics as a product development manager few months ago.  I studied Digital Marketing and was willing to deal with a product with technical aspects. To do so, it was essential for me to be able to talk with developers, using the right vocabulary, and really understand what was going on. A friend of mine who did Le Wagon talked to me about this 9 weeks of coding bootcamp. It was neither too long, nor too short. Perfect.

That’s how I was part of Le Wagon Paris batch #220, one of the best experience of my life. From the very start, you feel that you are going to embark on an exciting adventure. Let’s be honest, you’ll learn how to code the hard way, sometimes you’ll dream of code, but it works. Not a day I was reticent to go there, all the students, teachers and staff members become your second family in a way, so you’ll never feel lonely and always supported.

Of course I’ve gained technical skills. Even a week after the end of the bootcamp I am still amazed by the fact that we’ve coded a functional and really well designed app from scratch with my team.

Humanly speaking, I already said that earlier but I insist, getting a foothold at Le Wagon is being part of a huge community all around the world, always glad to help you.

What’s next then? As I want to work on a technical product, Product Owner is the perfect job for me. With the skills acquired thanks to Le Wagon, I am sure it will be easier for me to apply to this kind of job than before I’ve joined the bootcamp.

I’m a Greek-American living in Paris for the past 12 years and I love solar power, biking, and music… and now coding!  

I’ve been working for the past six years as VP Marketing at DualSun, a French solar startup that developed an innovative solar panel.  As part of my job, I frequently work with developers to build our web presence and I decided to do Le Wagon to work more efficiently with the developers — to be able to challenge and validate their work which is really hard to do when you don’t have the technical experience.

I also wanted to do Le Wagon for personal reasons -- to learn something new, to work my brain differently, and simply to go back to school!

And so I did Le Wagon Paris batch #220 (Jan-Feb 2019) and I LOVED it.  It exceeded my expectations not only on a technical level, but on human and social levels as well.

On a technical level, I now not only feel competent to challenge developers, I discovered I love coding and that there’s a lot of stuff (not everything) that I can do by myself!

The program is really well-designed with a (superbly-coded!) online platform with lectures, videos, exercises, and more.  The teachers and the TAs are great and helpful and make learning such a pleasure.  And we had such a great time with the other students — every day, you work with a different “buddy” which is a great way to meet new people and discover new learning styles.

Beyond the course, the staff at Le Wagon is amazing and organized many incredible side events - CEO talks, happy hours, coding competitions, and of course, the final Demo Day.  And the network and post-bootcamp support is incredible too!  I could go on and on….

What’s next?  I plan to go back to my job at DualSun with a more tech-focused role, and hopefully continue dev projects on the side, and who knows, maybe at some point, become a full-time developer.

In short, Le Wagon is an incredible experience to learn how to code… and so much more! 

Soon to be graduated from a business school, I joined Le Wagon in January 2019. After a digital marketing master, that provided me academic knowledge, I felt like I needed some technical skills. Learning to code seemed to be the most relevant thing to do. I won’t tell you that I was passionate about coding before joining Le Wagon, I won’t tell you neither that I dreamed about becoming a developer since my first day at kindergarten. That is not who I was and besides this, this is not really the type of people Le Wagon is targeting. But I can tell you one thing: I wanted to learn something that will help me to stand out from the crowd of “business-students-willing-to-work-in-digital-marketing”. And thanks to Le Wagon, I have been served! Honestly, I can say that it was one of the most enlightening experience of my life. I learned so much. I learned about API, parsing, scraping, AJAX… Did I lose you? That’s ok, I can’t even realize that I am actually using these words, me, Jeanne, that used to be a French Literature student! And this is what I liked the most about Le Wagon: people coming from different backgrounds, but no one knew how to code. Working alongside curious people challenged me every day to do my best. Now, I can say I like to code, but what I like the most about coding is that it is a world of possibilities, and the knowledge never stops! It has truly changed my vision of the digital world and I feel ready now to join a tech start-up or a digital agency/consulting firm.

We all know that time flies, even more when you are having a good time. This defines exactly the bootcamp Le Wagon in Paris I just attended (batch #220). Before giving you more details on my awesome adventure at Le Wagon, let me tell you first how I came up with the decision to enroll in this bootcamp.

Initially graduated in Finance degree, I worked in an asset management company as an accountant for 6 (long) years. Classic, steady and comfy executive job you would guess. Bored of seeing the same figures and Excel spreadsheets over and over again, I seized the opportunity during my company restructuration to change path. I was kind of a nerd during my childhood and was always interested in the web and tech fields. Having heard good things about Le Wagon from some friends working in this environment, I decided to give a look and a try after reading useful reviews (I hope this one will help too!)

You could imagine that 9 weeks is too short for being a web developer … Indeed, this is brief but so efficient as those 9 weeks are perfectly optimized to learn! The courses are perfectly balanced between lectures in the morning and practical exercises for the rest of the day to assimilate on your own pace. You see and live every day differently as you learn to team up with people. The staff in Paris are warm and care about their students by paying attention to them until the end and after the bootcamp.

I was starting from scratch on web languages, and I learned so much during the 9 weeks that I am now more confident to pursue my career in the web industry. My adventure in Le Wagon brought me a convivial social network and good friends with whom you could tell lame nerd joke! Don’t be afraid of going to the yoga that the bootcamp offers, first it will relax you from your laptop (and take some ninja naps) and you will make your body and mind more flexible (I was as flexible as a tree before and I can easily touch my feet now!)

After Le Wagon, I plan to land a first job as a FullStack web dev job, and during the bootcamp, I had some friends that had ideas of project but didn’t know where to start the app, and I could tell them the feasibility with my Le Wagon experience. So, I have also several projects, including a bot that will automatize business flows and a personal finance planning analysis tool.

Thank you for reading me and hope you will enjoy Le Wagon if you decide to step in!

After two years working in the banking industry in London, I decided to change life and go back to France to become an entrepreneur.  Leaving behind me a confortable professional situation, my friends, my girlfriend, my flat… and went back to my parent’s place to start a new life.

The first struggle on my entrepreneurial journey was the lack of coding skills. I had many business/product ideas but found myself unable to create a MVP without hiring a freelance developer to build the app/website. I realised that I didn’t want to fall in a dependency relationship towards a developer. Hence, joining a coding bootcamp became obvious – it brought me to the FullStack Programme at Le Wagon.

Le Wagon is definitely a life-changer programme: after 2 intense months of coding, I now can develop a MVP and test multiple business ideas on my own.

Le Wagon is simply amazing because: teachers are exceptional both technically and personally, the atmosphere is unique, students have very diverse backgrounds and the program is perfectly structured. If you are in a similar mindset, please do not hesitate anymore, join Le Wagon community to have fun and learn!

I worked 2 years for Saas start-up in Healthcare industry as a Customer Onboarding Manager: I knew everything about the product and worked closely with the PO and the Tech team to improve it on a daily basis.

But after the merger with our competitor, we grew so much that every team was working in silo and I lost all connection with the product development.

I then realized it was my favorite part of the job: reflect on, improve, test and design the product.

So I enrolled for Le Wagon Bootcamp to become a Product Owner, and finally be officially shaping the product.

But halfway through the training and as the end was approching, I had my second epiphany: I didn't want to stop learning and coding!

With Le Wagon not only I learned basic coding skills but also discovered the developper mindset:

curiosity is your prerequisite,
failing means trying means improving,
The one asking may be the one sharing and vice-versa

The teaching method was far more well thought out and effective than in my business school, that is why I feel so confident what will happen next!

I got my Master II in Digital Business & e-Commerce in September 2018. I did a work/study training program in Saint-Gobain for the last 2 years, in the e-Commerce department.

Interviews after interviews, one thing kept coming back: I did not have enough tech abilities.

That’s why I decided to join Le Wagon in January 2019 in Paris.

At first, I thought that I would be overwhelmed by all the new things I was going to learn, but the program is extremely well studied, and everything then seems obvious.

9 weeks can seem short to learn to code an app from scratch, but you would be amazed how fast you’ll learn.

The atmosphere at Le Wagon is very family-like. Everyone is here to help each other, no one is better than anyone. We all share the same ambitions and the same will to learn something new. There are lots of different types of profiles, and that’s what amazing about it.

Le Wagon was kind of life changing experience for me. Now that I found what I really enjoy doing, I’m looking for a position as a Developer Web Junior, I decided to get away from the business side. I’m much happier in the tech environment.