Le Wagon Reviews
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Guilherme Fontana Louro
The Pros of doing the LeWagon for me(Fullstack SP #296)
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Doing the LeWagon bootcamp in São Paulo, as a student of the batch #296, was one the best decisions i've made to my future and i can give lots of arguments of why. LeWagon focuses on teaching students ruby, rails and JavaScript, using a very unique dynamic called the buddy system, where you work each day with a different partner and learn skills of coding while improving areas like communication. You still have very good teachers, who are responsible for the classes at the start of the day and can help you and your partners with some problems that may come up during the day. The most important part for me is the amount of exercises that you have to learn during everyday of the bootcamp, using the kitt challenges. In conclusion, The LeWagon bootcamp offers a very good course for your curriculum, where you can learn more about coding and starting your carrer an dev.
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Alan
Doing Le Wagon, one of the best professional decision I took!
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After 15 years in audit and corporate finance in a few countries, I was looking for a change and new challenges. One of my relationship suggested I should learn coding and introduced me to Le Wagon. I immediately liked the program and registered for the summer batch in Paris. As most of the participants, I was a bit skeptical when we started the first week that we could achieve a real VMP at the end of the bootcamp as they told us. The result was beyond my expectation. Not only we managed to do it in the last two weeks, but the adventure was just starting. We decided with one of my batch member to continue to develop our product and to create our on own company which we are currently doing now. A real thanks to Le Wagon and its team (teacher, assistants, staff,…) and to all our batch for this 9 weeks. The organization, tools and community we met were above expectation for me. I definitely recommend the experience for anybody who wants a change in his/her professional life.
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Ana Fernandes
Super fulfilling!
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Recently I became an ex-management consultant and a newly Le Wagon alumni @Lisbon #tooproud. I decided to take the leap once I grew interested in working in a tech environment while attending many client's meetings where digital and IT pain points and challenges were becoming the center of the discussion. I wanted to join the challenge. Soon I found Le Wagon to be #1 coding bootcamp in Europe, web development centered, hands-on and ambitious program. That was why I chose this team, and I chose well! The community is super engaging and the intense 9 weeks at Le Wagon were sure 1 out of the 5 top experiences of my life. Plenty of good-hearted people, eager to learn and be better.
I achieved my personal objective: I learned a good crazy language to start with (Ruby!), OOP, MVC, and my beloved Front-End, as well as how to tackle product development from the very start to the very end.
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Simona C.
Coding bootcamp Le Wagon
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I wanted a carrier change, so at the beginning of this year I started looking for a bootcamp that could allow me to study and work at the same time! When I finally found Le Wagon I couldn't believe to my eyes, cause their part time programme was perfect to me cause I didn't have to leave my job in order to attend classes! Also the teachers were all amazing! They helped me a lot to understand difficult things that I wouldn't never imagine to learn! Now I can code and this is thanks to all le wagon team! Definitely one of the best experience of my life! Very satisfying!
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Simon Lindsay
Fantastic Bootcamp Experience
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With so many bootcamps out there I was torn on which one I should I apply for. After some extensive research I ended up choosing Le Wagon. I completed Bootcamp 273 in Bali back in August 2019 and couldn't be happier with my choice.
The full stack course provides you a great grounding in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL and Ruby. It's a challenging curriculum and there were times when I felt like I was simply not progressing or struggling to understand a particular concept, but Guido and the rest of the team were always on hand to help. Besides being challenging the course is also incredibly fun and rewarding. Having an idea in your head and bringing it to life with code is just an amazing experience.
At the end of the bootcamp I couldn't believe what our team had managed to achieve. We developed a fully functioning app that served as a platform to match recycling banks with recycling collectors, the idea was to help reduce the amount single use plastic a prevalent problem in South East Asia and I was so proud with what the team and I managed to build.
If you're on the fence on whether to go on the Le Wagon, my advice would be to just go for it. You will not be disappointed, it's an incredible life changing experience!!
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Clement
a professional, human and crazy experience
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January 2019: I was preparing to quit my job after a 10-year experience in the same company to create one on my own. Launching my start-up was an exciting challenge. But how to start? My project (to promote sports in the workplace) was based on a web platform. My issue? I did not know anything about coding websites or applications. So, I decided to look for a CTO as a co-founding partner. I shaked my network, and the network of my network to talk with people who had created tech companies or who were working with developers. After some interviews, all were unanimous: it's almost impossible to find an available CTO. As the demand is way higher than the offer = it's a very expensive knowledge". But ONE word came back three times: "Le Wagon: change your life learn to code". This is how I started two months later my incredible 3-month experience at Le Wagon. 9 (very very) intensive weeks to learn a new language. To start a new life. To challenge my learning abilities, more than durung the 10 years I spent developing field agility. Why Le Wagon is a successfull coding bootcamp? Thanks to its pedagogy based on : 1- boisterous rhythm whose strength is that theorical classes(25% daily) are wisely mixed up with practical exercises (75%). When your brain is utterly fried, you keep on underpinning fundamentals notions. 2- People's diversity and background wealth : everyday, thanks to a "random wheel" they "forced" you to work with a different, new, buddy. Smart move. Besides cultivating a supportive and friendly athmosphere, we created a "clan" strong feelings. 3- Everybody is dedicated to your success. Every teacher, teacher assistant or staff member is solicitous for one reason: they were in your shoes a few months or weeks before. To sum up, Le wagon is a professional, human and crazy experience you have to live. -
camille lambert
A great challenge
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I used to work in programmatic advertising and I was looking for a new challenge. I felt my profile was lacking of technical skills and I wanted to do something more concrete but in a short amount of time.
I decided to do le wagon and it was an amazing experience. Extremely intense though but worth it.
I wouldn’t have imagined my self being able to do what I achieved at le Wagon.
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Tom
Take the leap
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Le Wagon has been by far the most intensive and efficient training I ever followed. Within 9 weeks, I was able to create 2 websites with 2 other members as we learnt more than the basic knowledge of programming in modern languages (html, CSS, js, ruby on rails, SQL). Now, as a growth marketer I can use those skillset to create basic websites, to expand my usage of CMS and to build automation tools. To conclude, I highly recommend le wagon not only for wannabee programmers, but also to entrepreneurs, people working closely with tech team and growth marketers/hackers. Feel free to contact me for more insights. -
Carolina
My time at Le Wagon
My time at Le Wagon was a life changing experience, supported by wonderful teachers and other LW representatives. I learned so much more than I was expecting to, given the limited time and my general capabilities.
I was taught not only to program, but to learn by myself, and was given invaluable tools to build on. I'm really thankful to everyone involved!
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Jun
Amazing 9 weeks!
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Coming from a background in music education and stage management, I never dream of I could build an app in such a short period of time. Before joining Le Wagon, I tried to learn it myself by completing online courses a few times, but each time I didn't have a clear direction of how to put all things that I've learned together. Hence, after researching and contact some alumni, Le Wagon stood out from all the rest for me in terms of the price, diversity of the cohort, learning environment, especially the curriculum which is product-driven.
Le Wagon for me is joining a community, not a bootcamp. It may seem overwhelming at the beginning but trust me they will provide you with the tools for your success. I love the pair-programming which developed my problem-solving and communication skills, and the flashcards to help me to grab these key concepts in a short intense period. The most amazing thing that I truly value during my time in Le Wagon was meeting so many like-minded people. Not just meeting our teachers and cohort, learning in a co-working space got me a chance to meet different designers, entrepreneurs, developers and etc. It helps me to stay motivated and inspired throughout the coding journey. The teacher and TAs are always there to support you and it will make time fly and you will be learning a lot really fast.
The only cons I'd say is "Why didn't I start this program earlier?". For the people who are considering to join the bootcamp, I highly recommended and it is definitely worth it.
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Steven
Batch 296SP A new family
They teach everything a person needs to know, coding, how to think through the problem and how to solve the problem.
To think though and solve the problem was one of best things they teach, the best way to look up the problem in the internet.
Besides coding, the people are awsome, Le Wagon ain't only a bootcamp, it's my second family. -
Matt
Best decision I ever made!
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Before making the decision to join Le Wagon, I spent over 10 years in the automotive industry and decided it was time to make a change. I did a lot of research before choosing this particular camp and chose it due to the difficulty I had trying to find a negative review along with the fact that no other boot camp would take the time to explain the course in detail to me (I was actually told by one to call back when I am serious and want to book) whereas Alex took the time to thoroughly go through what I was signing up for.
The 9 weeks were intense although looking back I can't believe the level I am at now in comparison to where I started, it was honestly the best decision I have ever made and would highly recommend it to anyone thinking of joining. One of the great things about it was that everyone is at a different level/from a different background and you are paired with a different person until the project weeks everyday which definitely helps progression through the course. The staff at Le Wagon are amazing, everyone is approachable, more than happy to help and always checking on how we were getting on.
When the project weeks came around we got to put everything we learned into practice and everyone's work was great, it really showcases how much everyone learned. For our project we made an app designed specifically for mobile to make claiming rail compensation easier for commuters, we learned some valuable lessons, I had great feedback about it in an interview already and I still can't believe how well it turned out, especially considering the level we were all at when we first started.
I'll finish by saying if you are reading this thinking about joining or trying to decide which boot camp to sign up for, (like I was 4 months ago) stop looking and get in touch with Le Wagon, you will not regret it!!! -
Christine
This boot camp made me fall in love with code
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Whether you are looking for a career change or an entrepreneur looking to put your idea into practice, I can definitely recommend Le Wagon!
I decided to make a career change from Marketing and Communication to coding after I had attended a one-day coding workshop at Le Wagon Barcelona and worked on several small personal projects afterward. I looked at several other boot camps and chose Le Wagon based on the combination of reputation, price, length, of course, class size, diversity of the cohort, course content, teaching environment, and approach, but mostly the focus on building a product and developing problem-solving skills.
I wasn't really sure what to expect as I was very new to the world of coding, and I remember that one of my biggest fears was to take this course and realize that coding wasn't for me. But the opposite happened. I completely fell in love with code, and had that sensation of finding a box with endless tools that enable you to build great things. The passion of our teachers and the motivation all the students bring to the course each day creates a unique atmosphere that really lets you thrive and advance at an incredible speed.
Besides the great program Le Wagon has set up and the skills and concepts they teach you, the community (teachers and alumni) is incredible! There are so much support and resources which I found to be very very helpful especially after the boot camp!
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Alma Mamaradlo
Most rewarding accomplishment
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What I gained are new skills to join the tech world but more importantly more confidence in myself.
Having no previous background in coding, it was a struggle in the first couple of weeks of the bootcamp; it was very challenging and intense but the curriculum is very well made and the quality of the teaching was excellent. The whole team at Le Wagon Montreal were very helpful and teachers + TA's were always available to answer questions.
I also made new friends whom I can discuss and solve bugs!
One tip I can give is not to be shy and to write a lot of tickets.
It was an amazing experience and one of the most rewarding accomplishment for me. I will be forever grateful to Le Wagon and I fully recommend them for anyone who wants to start coding!
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Abs Yade
My journey as a tech recruiter at Le Wagon Barcelona
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After 2 years as a Tech Recruiter specialised on the web development market, I needed a change as I realised I was frustrated. I wanted more freedom than classic corporate companies has to offer, I wanted to work in a more creative environment. I had the will to become a web developer for at least 6 months before I took the decision to implement the first step that initiated the chase of my goal.
My main obstacle being the fear of loss. I knew I was leaving a company, where I felt comfortable and appreciated by my colleagues and management. On the other side, even though I am 27 years old and some people would say it is still young, I was afraid of it being too late for such a big change. How was I going to learn so many new skills in such a short time? How is it even possible?
I was once on a phone call with a candidate who seemed to match perfectly with my client’s job description. As usual, I started my qualification call by a presentation of my client’s technical environment and company culture. Then we got to the candidate’s work experiences, the more we got into it, the more I was convinced that he was the ‘perfect’ guy for my client.He explained to me that he originally majored in accounting and he was used to be an accountant for 5 years but he got bored of it, he wanted a real change and ended up attending a full stack web development Bootcamp called Le Wagon. Two years later he is a full stack developer for a young promising start up.
That’s how I discovered Le Wagon. After days of research about the Bootcamp, I decided to apply. I had a skype interview with Gus, Founder of Le Wagon Barcelona. I really appreciated that Gus not only wanted to evaluate if I was going to be a good element for Le Wagon, but also wanted to evaluate if Le Wagon was going to be the right choice for me.
Three month ago, my job was to recruit web developers who would do things that I did not really understand. Today, I am able to develop my own web application using Ruby, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PostgreSQL. I still have a lot to learn but now I feel equipped to go on and continue to grow my skills in web development.
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Susan Renaud
Le Wagon London
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Going to Le Wagon was one of the best decisions I ever made.
Before the bootcamp, I worked in research in University, then for nearly three years in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) working with children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders. In this role we used some apps and I collected, entered and managed data, and this all made my burgeoning interest in technology grow. While working in ABA was very rewarding, I came to a point where I knew I needed to do something else, and I knew I wanted to pursue something involving technology while still incorporating my interests and skills I already had.
I started taking courses on codeacademy to see if this was truly a path I wanted to go down; if I enjoyed it; if I was interested in it; if I was any good at it. I decided I did, but after a few months taking courses, I knew I wanted to go somewhere where I could truly be immersed in coding, and learn as much as I could possibly learn. So I started looking up bootcamps online, and all the reviews I read led me to Le Wagon.
Attending Le Wagon was a wonderful experience. I learned more than I ever thought possible over the course of 9 weeks. Now I can say I am a Full-Stack Developer, thanks to my experience at Le Wagon.
My favorite part of the course was the group projects at the end. They put us in a position where we were free to be creative and apply our new coding skills to this process. While we were coding these apps by ourselves, we still had the support of all the teachers/TAs. They were ready to answer any questions we had as well as help guide us to a conclusion if we needed it without totally giving away the answer to solve the problem, so we could be guided to figure it out ourselves.
Overall I definitely recommend Le Wagon if you are looking to immerse yourself in coding and especially if you want to make a change in your career.
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Daniela Ichikawa
Excelent Bootcamp
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I was very surprised by the overall experience at Le Wagon since I didn't look up for any references and only knew the existence of Le Wagon and IronHack. I chose Le Wagon only because their PDF looked better haha and honestly couldn't be happier with my choice!
First because they have a buddy system, which is so powerful for your learning! Having someone different every day by your side can enrich the way you approach problems and give you different perspectives about logical thinking.
Second because you have a plataform in which you can see all lectures material and challenges you have to do. It is so organized and you can revisit any time you want, even after the course.
Third because at the end of the bootcamp, you build two web app in group. It is good to learn how you'd work in real life with team members and also to consolidate all the learning. And if you're feeling confident, you can search for diiferent features (that you didn't learn at the course) to use in your app and have all the help from the teachers to implement them with you.
So, if you're in doubt about which bootcamp to do, I would definetely recommend Le Wagon! :)
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Felix Letellier
Learning by doing
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Honestly, it was an amazing two months.
I started the bootcamp with very little coding experience and I am just astonished how I got through this quite dense program.
At first, you can get a bit scared by the amount of information you will need to digest on a daily basis but actually they have nailed the pedagogy behind it: 1h30 morning class, 6h exercise with a buddy and then some small daily exercise to do at the end of the day to memorise the main points you learned during the day.
But all of this wouldn't be possible with out the five-stars staff at the Paris bootcamp… All the teachers, teachers assistants and the main staff are la crème de la crème. As soon as you start the program, you sense a sort of "family feeling" because everybody is ready to help each other. If you are having issues, the teachers are there to guide you and not give an easy answer, that makes a big difference.
On top of that, the community and event staff are on fire – organising events on a weekly basis in order for each batch to know each other better but as well with external guests with whom we can exchange on many topics like "go freelance", "how to set up your first startup", "how to manage your finance" etc... When I decided to undertake that bootcamp, I wasn't sure what I wanted to do afterwards (PM, Dev or stay in my field of Marketing) and although I have continue in Marketing, I can finally have a full conversation with the tech/product team and have them completely understand my needs and be much more efficient. Fully recommended!
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Charles Dieulefet
Le Wagon: learning how to code and launch your own business!
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As part of my Business School master, I had the opportunity to learn a lot of things doing several internships as a strategy consultant. However, I had the feeling that it was absolutely not the field in which I wanted to work in the future. I started to listen to some podcasts about the French startups environment and I found an interview of Boris and Romain Paillard, the two Le Wagon co-founders. This interview was clearly an eye-opener and I felt that coding was something I really wanted to learn. Therefore, I did my last internship in a startup specialized in food delivery as a data analyst. I could learn some skills about SQL and I really loved it.
Consequently, I decided to start Le Wagon coding bootcamp in order to get hard skills and find a job in tech. This decision was one of the best I have ever taken in my whole life. Despite the fact that I have learnt how to code in several programming languages, Le Wagon made me live an incredible human experience, meeting and working with so many different people with the buddy system. The teachers are always there to help you when you need them and at the end you can build by yourself a real project, whether it is a mobile app or a website.
Thanks to Le Wagon I shared an amazing adventure with a great team of people and I will launch my start-up meeting my co-founder alongside the final project.
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Lior Levy
From Darkness to Light
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Before joining Le Wagon, I was working as a Junior PM in a tech start-up. I was very interesting on learning how to code, so i tried to learn by myself but the overwhelming level of information I found on the web and the apparent difficulty made me give up quickly.
This is where Le Wagon Paris came in. Honestly, the program is such that you can learn very efficiently and acquire all the necessary knowledge to let you stand on your own feet.
The environment was super great, I had fun everyday. In only 2 months I meet a lot of amazing people that inspired me, whether it was during the classes or the afterworks.I'm extremely happy and grateful for the experience. I couldn't have made a better use of my time.
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Raphaël
Great experience
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Being a business school student not on the job market yet, my few job experiences made me realize one thing : I might have screwed up my education orientation.
Thankfully, some short-length programs are available to make up for that, and that's when Le Wagon showed up.
The program is only 9 weeks long and can easily fit in a tight schedule with a few arrangements made (i'm still a student so obviously that was easier for me).
I didn't really know what to expect from it, as i had no damn clue how coding worked even though i've always been tech-savvy.But oh boy was i in for a surprise, and a great one.
The teaching-staff is highly competent and partially composed of former students as well as full-time teachers. The building and classroom give a nice atmosphere to focus and work, and the curriculum is made so that you get to meet new people and participate in few activities that will make each week unique.It's been a month since Le Wagon is over and i'm already missing it and the numerous people i've met there and probably won't see again.
Would definitely do it again if i had not already gained the technical skills taught there (because the program is that good).
Le Wagon helped me develop new and useful skills, and gave me the tools to rethink my long-term professionnal and personnal goals.One downside however: i might have developed a caffeine addiction.
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Sarah Guichard
Just do it !
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After 7 years working as a digital project manager in web agencies, I decided it was about time to look behind the curtain and understand how the websites I was working on were made.
I was constantly asked by my clients how long it took to correct or build a feature, and quite often I was completely mistaken. Even though I was trying my best to understand what the developers were saying, I realized I needed to experiment this world myself and learn everything from scratch.
And after these two amazing months in Le Wagon, I have quit my job and I’m now searching a job as a developer ! I know that the road ahead is long, and I have still so many things to learn, but I know that I’ve got all the tools needed to keep on learning the right way.
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Daniel Goran
Great experience! Batch #287 - London
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Never learned so much in such a short period. I decided to make a career change to coding because I felt I needed a big change in my life. Before enrolling the bootcamp I looked at all the reviews from various websites and Le Wagon was the only bootcamp that had great reviews. Then I decided to join the bootcamp and I’ve been to an interview with Alex Tombeur, the UK Manager who was extremely helpful to explain me the course structure and the steps to join the bootcamp.
In less than 9 weeks I managed to work in a team of four and created 2 complex web products. Also, the staff have been helpful, very well prepared teachers and teaching assistants. Throughout the bootcamp I've made a lot of friends and they were like my second family.
I had the opportunity to attend many events and to be introduced to many people thanks to Le Wagon driver.
The post-bootcamp support is very helpful. The week after completing the bootcamp, Le Wagon arranged a hiring week event at their office in London where I had the opportunity to speak with recruiters and employees looking for junior web developers.
Finally, studying at Le Wagon was the best thing I have ever done and to be honest the bootcamp was much more than I expected.
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Andreea
Simply Amazing!
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I graduated from Le Wagon, London in September 2019 and immensely enjoyed it. The entire experience from start to finish was fantastic: the teachers and everyone working there are very supportive and helpful, the lectures are broken down nicely for everyone to understand and the additional information provided on their platform along the way is perfectly done. I am really impressed of how the course was structured and what they (and we) managed to achieve in these 9 weeks. My most favourite part was the projects weeks, where we got to work in a team (I was in a team of four) and build projects just like we would in a work environment and then present the final project in front of everyone. It was a proud moment for all of us as it's unbelievable to imagine where we had started from and what we had achieved in such a short time.
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Maxime
Le Wagon changed my path: I went from a management role in a leading American company to starting my own business.
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A few years ago I tried to start my business but was dependant on others for the technical skills. This year, when I decided to leave my field and start-up a new project, I wanted to be independent and autonomous to code the MVP myself. Le Wagon taught me front languages such as HTML and CSS, but also helped me master Ruby and the Rails framework. In the beginning I was doubtful as we had to absorb a lot of information in a short amount of time. It seemed confusing and overwhelming! All along, teachers told us to “trust the program” and they were right. With their help and the buddy system, it all made sense when we started to work on the framework (around week 6).
Thanks to Le Wagon, I coded the MVP for my start-up, learned to pitch my project to an audience met amazing people with various backgrounds and even my co-founder! :)
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Xinyi Wu
I was really bored at work + I need to find a better way to spend my summer = signed up for Le Wagon Barcelona
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Well, the true story is maybe a bit more than this. Coding was always intriguing to me, as my generation is so used to instant gratification, somehow after I tried a bit coding on some mobile app, I found coding is somehow similar to instant gratification, because you see the result right away, or wether right or wrong. This is how I got engaged.
I had a few different jobs after graduate, and I see none of it as the thing I would like to do for the rest of my life, that is to say, none of it actually mattered to me. At that time I felt lost, How exactly I wanna spend my life? Am I surrounded by the people who share the same passion as I do? Alright, it was too overwhelming just think of it. Let me think of how to spend the summer first. For example, let’s learn some coding for fun this summer! And seems like the closest upcoming batch is the one of Le Wagon, I didn’t even do any more research and just signed up after the interview with Le Wagon Barcelona. And, I made no mistake!
I woke up happy everyday during the two months of class, I met plenty of people who share the passion as I do, we had countless amazing and inspiring conversations, we laughed hard together, we learned coding together, we did 2 projects together. It all happened in only 2 months. Honestly Le Wagon opened another door for me, for the first time I feel closer to the life I want, I feel slightly under control of my life. For now I am working on my own portfolio, and trying to land my first job in tech!
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Andre Ferrer
My journey in Batch #298 Rio
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I graduated from Law School at UFRJ in Rio de Janeiro - Brazil.
Afterwards, I started my attorney activity, had some teaching experience in college and also at "BAR" preparation courses (in which I taught Tax-Law) and studied for "concursos públicos" which are public tests as a means to ingress as a public servant (as are Judges and Public Attorneys).
During this time, I had two post-graduate courses in Tax-Law and Customs Law. So after being in a market in crisis for 3 years, I had to change.
The few friends of mine who were thriving were programmers. There's where I should head, then.
I started to study Programming at Stanford's CS101 and then Harvard and Yale's CS50.
I went to Portugal to attend at a Bootcamp called "Academia de Codigo" but they only told me that I had to be portuguese to attend when I was there (and after 3 testing phases).
Then, a friend who works in England told me to attend Le Wagon in Rio.
Oh! The irony of life. I had to go to Portugal to see that the best bootcamp in the world was next door.
It was one of the most intense experiences in my life. Staying in the same place studying from 9 to 19 is tiresome but also very rewarding. I learned more in two months there than in the past 6 months studying alone at home by myself.
Now that it's finished I feel more than ready to join the market and I'm really glad to have done it. My goal now is to be able to help other people find their worth again, just as I did.
Hence, this review. I hope I could be of any help for you.
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Gautier Borot
Change your life, learn to code !
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Before Le Wagon, I worked in music industry during 7 years. I created a record label beside my studies and I promoted kind of 150 events all around France and other countries in Europe. I have 2 music studios in Paris for producing and post-production. I am also an artist signed on 7 different record labels in Europe, and I often play in lots of clubs or festivals. I decided to stop promoting events and working with other artists in studio to develop new competences in coding. I wanted to be able to launch my digital projects and work with startups or bigger companies.
After a fascinating and hardworking summer at Le Wagon, I am looking for a job as a developer and I continue my artist life ! Today I can achieve my application ideas and work on new inspiring projects ! I am so glad to understand what happens behind the web, and this is really rewarding ! I will never thank enough Le Wagon for this experience ! ! -
Myriam Chah
Best 9 weeks ever!
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I spent an amazing time at Le Wagon Paris.
Staff and atmosphere are truly benevolent. Pace is fast, which is good and enable students to get great coding skills.Everyday, we start with a 1-hour lesson with a teacher, before diving into a bunch of exercises with a buddy, and the help of teacher assistants when needed. Buddies change everyday, which also allow the students to get to know each others. At the end of the day, a live coding session let the students wrap up all concepts learnt throughout the day.
On top of that, Le Wagon organizes a lot of events with entrepreneurs, companies, etc which may contribute to your thinking if you’re considering a switch in your career, or just are curious.It was really an empowering experience, as well as a life changer for me. After 3 years in business development, I am now a full stack developer, and a teacher assistant in Paris!
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Ghita
Best experience ever
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I decided to complete the Le Wagon bootcamp fullstack program in order to learn the Tech skills to have more control over my own start-up. I realize now that Le Wagon taught me more than code: I have developed an empowering new mindset and logic. Besides teaching all the necessary skills, they have taught me to solve problems by myself and I cannot say «thank you» enough to express my gratitude.
The modules were very well structured it takes you through the material in a logical order which is easier to learn, and the Teachers were amazing, passionate, and their teaching style is highly engaging.
I feel like I am part of a huge tech family, It is without a doubt the best educational program I’ve had! -
Wendela Lovgren
My experience at Le Wagon Barcelona
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It’s been almost 4 weeks since I left Barcelona and Le Wagon behind and I am left with some pretty incredible skills and memories that I will carry with me for a very long time. Deciding to spend my summer in Barcelona and at Le Wagon was probably one of the best decisions ever. I was studying my first year at uni as a Business Administration and IT student when I first was introduced to coding. Meanwhile the coding classes I had in uni made me doubt however I would ever be able to code Le Wagon proved me wrong!
The Le Wagon experience is one I would recommend to everyone. Except giving me a new set of skills the bootcamp also gave me a huge confidence boost, knowing that I am now capable of doing something I never thought I would be able to do.
I am so grateful for all of the incredible teachers and staff at the Barcelona campus and also my amazing classmates. Now I am looking forward to learning a lot more and searching for new projects to work on. The first one will be building a website for my fathers company!
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F
Best bootcamp
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Two months straight of lectures, algorithm courses and a variety of programming language, from 9 am to 7 p.m, - wait, did I also mention the homework and self-study ?. That looks like hell, but, actually, it can be the best decision of your life. Well, at least that was mine !
Few months ago I’ve decided to further my education and, at the same time, make a career change after a life in the finance sector. Because why not, after all.. While it’s important to show commitment, sometimes your goals and perspectives change, and you crave for something more meaningful to you. After an intense benchmarking session, I set my sights on « Le Wagon », got enrolled, passed the tests, and start what would become the rightest call I would ever done in my life.
And let me tell you that this bootcamp lived up to my expectations. Great teaching staff, great teaching method, and a room full of likeminded students/professionals coming from different backgrounds. Now, don’t get me wrong it was not all fun and games. My brain was literally be fried during this bootcamp, but in good way though. They were all about providing an efficient and practical knowledge of the web development world, and that's what I earned. Looking back, I feel empowered and happy that I did invest in myself, that I have done something that was right for me. Something that gave me a real perks in my new job as a freelance Web/App developer.
So stop wondering, entrepreneur, freelancer, and other curious mind of this world if your train goes off the track, pick it up, pick it up…and follow Le Wagon ! -
Jack
Absolutely fantastic
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I flew out to Bali to cover all of the below in 9 weeks, and designed, pitched and built two working projects. An Airbnb clone, and an idea I had, to utilise APIs in order to discover locations to visit in a new city, displayed via a heatmap 🔥
- JavaScript, jQuery
- Git, GitHub, Heroku
- Ruby and coding basics
- Parsing, Storing, Scraping & API
- Software Engineering (OOP)
- Database & SQL
- Front-End (HTML, CSS, Bootstrap)
- Ruby on RailsLe Wagon's programme was absolutely fantastic, with a structure that was inclusive and set up to allow all types of learners to excel. The teaching staff were great and always on hand to help should a problem arise, as well as giving well-led lectures on the content within the course.
The course has opened my eyes to the technical world in more ways than I'd have hoped, taught me so much, whilst being acting as an excellent launchpad to an MSc to learn more.
One element of the course I really liked was that the skills were taught to pretty much set up the students to build their own business once they were finished should they want to.
If you're thinking about learning to code I'd highly recommend Le Wagon!
Thanks again!
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Christophe Bouquet
Fullstack Developer Bootcamp
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I had tinkered with basic front-end programming for a while, HTML5 & CSS. As I was building my company from the ground up, I couldn't afford any programmer. So I chose a CMS and taught myself to code basic rendering. But as the months went by, and I started to discover more insights into my consumers' lives, I started to realize that I had nowhere near the ability to push the digital products that had a chance to succeed in the market. As all things started to come together, I chose to terminate my business - for other reasons than my own technical shortcomings obviously - and enrolled in Le Wagon a few months after.
The idea was basically to gain a deeper understanding of the tech universe, i.e. how does one gain a programmer mindset ? I also wanted to connect with different personalities. I was quite certain that some of the people I was going to meet would have lived different and interesting lives. The idea was to reset my mind and use that school as a stepping stone towards new high.
I was not disappointed. The bootcamp in itself is hard, and even harder for those of us that do not have a deep scientific education. So the first weeks are a-killing. But the program and educational support have achieved near perfection. The curriculum is thought as blocks that will all come together in the future. If you struggle with your challenges in the first days, you are learning a valuable lesson about the programmer's life. Our job is mainly to bring solutions to problems. You cannot take shortcuts. As a programmer you gotta pay your fair share of hustle, sweat and frustration. But keep at it for a few days, and the small joy of overcoming difficulties are gonna compound in your mind and you will find new motivation, as well as new abilities. Teachers and Teaching Assistants @ Le Wagon are great individuals who listen and declutter the path for you - they never do your chores though. If you are good or somewhat already a bit experienced, there are additional challenges that you can complete.
The high point of Le wagon is the last two weeks, when you are associated with 3 of your fellow wagoners to build a real-life web application that is to be presented in front of a live audience of 200+ people. These are intense weeks, as you should make use of everything that you have learned so far. There is teamwork as well, but not the kind you are used to, the kind with everyone one of your teammates being a programmer as well, the kind with git commit, git push and above all git merge conflict. You are talking a new language. You are building something. Your life has changed then and there.
And there is the people also, first and foremost. Let's face it, you are not gonna be a functional developer after ANY bootcamp. To do so you need to rely on a set of likely-minded positive characters and energies. And above all keep coding and growing. It does not matter how good you are or how good you think you are. Le Wagon's highest value proposition is that it gives you the tools and the network to go down this path - should you choose to do so. During my 9 weeks @ Le wagon, I have blossomed into a new individual, mainly because there are very few moments in your life when you are surrounded by every age group and every character. My advice is to use it as a sandbox for what will come later.
As for me, I am now freelancing on design and code, mainly to have the time to learn dart and flutter. My goal is to release one app a month.
Thank you for reading,
Christophe -
Yuji Masuda
Le Wagon was a worth it
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Before joining Le Wagon I wanted to learn how to code and make a website but didn't know where to start. Then I found the course in Le Wagon where they say they can teach us how to code and make a website in just 9 weeks. After hearing about this I visited one demo days and I was amazed they were able to make fabulous websites in just 9 weeks. After joining the next batch(#279) I was taught by Amazing teachers. During the morning lectures, they would teach us while clearing any doubts we didn't understand. after lectures, we would be paired up with a classmate to complete challenges. these are pretty hard challenges that help us understand the logic in programming. At the end of the Bootcamp, I have learned a lot so that I can now make a website like twitter or facebook easily. even after finishing the boot camp they let us keep the lectures in a video form so we can come back if we forgot something. Overall this boot camp was very worth it. it helped me be a full stack web developer and helped me gain many skills as a developer.
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Sy Rashid
Filling out the template in Barcelona
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That cloud looks like duck... sort of... Ooh! But that one looks like a dragon! I catch myself staring out the window again. The number of times I catch myself is getting out of hand. I sit at the WeWork, twirling my pen, trying to force myself to fill out the brand launch strategy, and I just can’t. I’ve filled out a million before, and now, I just can’t. I opt to grab a coffee instead, maybe go for a walk, wrap my head around anything else, I’ll figure it out when I get back. It’s another beautiful day in Oregon, and the weather is simply too nice to be spent inside all day. As I walk down the streets, peer in a few shop windows, I can’t shake the feeling something is off. You know those days, where a cloud just hangs over you, there’s nothing wrong in particular, but for the life of you, you just feel crummy. What’s wrong with me, I’ve literally been described as a human puppy, why am I not happier, why do I feel so off? Seriously, what is wrong with me? I mean I’ve done everything I’ve been expected to do, haven’t I? I went to a great high school, played sports, went to university, even graduated top of my class as an engineer. Oh, if you could only have seen the grin on my mother’s face as I showed her my diploma. From there I went the management consulting route, opting to flex my business know how. I ended up working a rotational program for the largest beer company in the world. I lived in some of the greatest US cities (LA, NYC, MIA, ATL, DC, PDX) and did some of the most fascinating work (venture capital, brand strategy, sales management, brand launches, etc), all in the alcohol industry. My job was literally to go out and talk to people about alcohol. My nights out were work, and my work was nights out, that’s the dream, right? I had myself a nice retirement account, had a car, did my own laundry, did my taxes, I even began flossing! All the trademarks of a successful adult, so what was wrong? Why wasn’t this enough? And it began to dawn, the reason it wasn’t enough was because it wasn’t what I actually wanted. I had been filling out someone’s else’s template for success. And when I took a hard-long look... well... I quit. And so, I decided to move to Barcelona, a city I had grown to love through my travels. But what would I do when I showed up? So, I began poking around and asking myself, if money were of no object, what exactly what I do? I’d build things of course, it’s what I’ve always done and what I genuinely enjoyed. But what would be my medium, what would be my canvas, and what would be my brush? Looking back at my classes in university I realized the ones I enjoyed the most, the ones where I’d simply get lost in a state of flow, had always been my computer science classes. So how could I get back into coding? How could I get a fresh take with a new skill set? And so like most of you, I googled “Best Coding Bootcamps”. Lo, and behold, there was Le Wagon, and even better, a batch in Barcelona would start in July. Between the intense days of coding, the weekends spent playing on the beach, and the nights sitting out on terezas drinking beer, the summer was over before I knew it. But the skill set I walked away with would empower me. Now a days I’m working to be a freelance developer while I TA with Le Wagon. It’s not the easiest route by any means, but I’m happier than I’ve ever been before. I finally found the thing that had been eluding me all these years. For once, I was no longer filling out someone else’s template for my life, I was finally architecting my own path. The leap can be scary, I know, but I promise what’s on the other side can be beautiful as long as you’re willing to put in the work. -
Benjamin
A great journey
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I started learning to code on my own a couple of months ago, previously employed as a digital marketing specialist I build a little data pipeline to automate my report. I quickly realize that I was having more fun doing that than building campaigns. When I decided that I wanted to be a developer I didn’t know what the journey would be like, I didn’t have much experience and I knew no one to guide me. I started to gather information about the different bootcamp in Montreal, this is when I discovered Le Wagon. Starting Le Wagon was the first milestone in this adventure that I wanted to start. Le Wagon sure taught me how to code (the teachers are here for you every step of the road to help you understand the key concepts) but the value of doing Le wagon bootcamp go far more beyond that. You learn how to properly develop an idea, prototype the product and develop it with a team. You’ll be surprised by what you can learn and accomplish in just a couple of weeks. Another great value of Le Wagon is its community, a very active and helping community that helps you broaden the perspective of what you can do, I wanted to be a developer, today I am also an entrepreneur and the journey keep going.
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Alina Heimgartner
LeWagon - BEST TIME IN BALI
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Before joining LeWagon Bali, I was working for a strategy consulting firm in Zurich. Most projects were about Digital and Analytics topics, where I realized how much there is to learn in this area. I knew I wanted to study Data Science in my Master, which is why I thought a coding bootcamp would give me a head start and an additional skill. Little did I know that the 9 weeks would give me so much more than that!
In the first few weeks my day usually started at 6am with a 1.5 hour yoga session. At 9am, I had my first fresh coconut and was ready to soak up all the information our teachers would give us in the lessons. After the challenges, I was usually exhausted, but at the live code, full attention is needed to keep up. At the end of the day at around 7.30pm, we would all go for a quick beer and dinner and then drop into bed. This was such an exciting time because each day, I came home with a head full of new things I learned, all in an unbelievable speed. At this point, we were just getting to know each other as a group, and our driver did an amazing job at bringing us all together on exciting trips to beaches, islands and clubs. Good times!
After a few weeks, every piece I learned started to come together like a puzzle. This is the most amazing moment. Building your first app, getting something live on the web, working in a team with other people pushing code on GitHub. You feel like you’re a magician, its FIRE! By now, our batch was one big family, organizing parties and weekend excursions together. We were a very diverse group, ranging from 18 to 45 from all educational, geographical and job-backgrounds, all hanging out together. I think that is amazing and exactly how it should be.
After 7 weeks of hard work, we started to work on our own projects. This is when the real fun but also the real challenge starts. I realized that to be a great coder, you have to be able to do more than just code. Communication is key to a successful project and the biggest challenge was not the ability to do the things but to get a common understanding, vision and a working team together. At the end, this was the most important learning and I was SO proud to see the final result of our hard work.
Overall, LeWagon has been the most empowering experience of my education so far. It gave me the ability to make my ideas reality and showed me that I can learn anything. I will continue improving my current coding skills and, now that I’m programming in R, I can tell that it has been key for me to get the foundation from LeWagon. Last but not least, it gave me a network of amazing alumni, a group of friends I will always be able to visit around the world and nine weeks of pure fun in paradise. Big Thank You to Bali, our wonderful teachers #BOOM and the #Batch253!
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Bruno Tostes
Experiência Incrível
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O curso superou minhas expectativas.
O Le Wagon cumpre o que promete, e proporciona uma imersão no mundo da programação Web, com conceitos simples e muita prática.
Após o curso, como empreendedor, me sinto seguro e preparado para enfrentar os desafios tecnológicos com os quais me deparo no dia a dia.
Recomendo para todos que desejam compreender cada etapa de desenvolvimento de um produto digital. -
Uri Serra
From fashion to coding at Le Wagon Barcelona
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My background is in Marketing and Sales. I was freelance for Fahion Brands before Le Wagon including services like consultancy, sales, eCom and BZ developer basically in Barcelona.
During the months before my bootcamp I started to investigate and learn to code and I quickly realice it was much more creative and exciting I could expect. So, after some interviews I realice Le Wagon was exactly what I was looking for.
I wanted to develop new skills which could enrole me in new an different projects and learn another way of working / living.
I have a friend who hardly recommend me Le Wagon He also wanted to breakthrough his profesional carrier, become a full stack developer and After one year He was there.
Le Wagon creates a very good atmosphere. They create an amazing team between TA’s, Teachers and Students. A very different group of people (20 different nationalities), super interesting all focus on same goals and helping eachother to get there.