Le Wagon

I was interested in programming for a long time before joining Le Wagon and I was constantly trying to learn in my own time to try and get a job in the field. In my 9 weeks at Le Wagon, I learned more than I had in the years since I started learning programming. There's no comparison in the level of motivation and the amount of support between learning alone and learning at a bootcamp.

At Le Wagon, you learn something new every day and then use that new found knowledge to solve a series of programming challenges. This formula is incredible for getting you to feel like you're constantly progressing and getting you to learn the topic in and out, it was addictive. Throughout the day, you work with a partner which is a lot easier than working by yourself and having someone there going through the same problems is great. It gives you a sense of camaraderie and competition that really boosts your productivity.

I had a great time at Le Wagon, I made friends and learned an incredible amount.
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I debated doing a bootcamp for a while because I thought that if I just tried hard enough, I would be able to learn to code by myself. After doing the Le Wagon web development bootcamp I see that even though it is possible to learn on your own, it is just smarter to have people help you on the way. The environment of a bootcamp is simply a lot better for learning, and the 9 week course represents probably more than a year of learning on my own. Le Wagon's value is incredible with a third of the cost of similar bootcamps. I had a great experience with my teachers and fellow students and it was definitely one of the best decisions I've made to do this bootcamp. Read less

Le Wagon goes beyond and above. I have never had in all my school life such a seamless (and intense!) learning experience.  Before applying, I noticed they were number #1 in all rankings. Now I understand why. It is in my opinion due to 4 main factors: 

• The pedagogy

You will alternate a 1h30 lecture in the morning, then put in practice what you’ve just learned with challenges, then back together for a livecode at 5pm. Teachers always highlight their thought process, so you understand exactly how they do every step. All the concepts are presented to you gradually, until you can put it all together and make sense of it all. I felt challenged every day, but at the same time not overwhelmed with too much information. The balance was perfect.  

• The online platform

The online platform really helped my learning. There you have a picture of the overall process, day by day, so you know exactly where you’re going. You can re-watch the morning lecture and access the slides and the class notes, presented in a super clear way (and I’m very picky!). You can also rehearse the core concepts with flashcards, the tool that’s helped me the most to retain information.  

• The team’s professionalism and care for their students.

The team (teachers, TAs, admin) is outstanding, really has their students’ best interest at heart. They are so supportive because they know it is hard (they have all gone through the bootcamp themselves), they are always here to cheer you on and it doesn’t feel fake. Much appreciated because most of the time you feel lost and stupid ;) Don’t underestimate how helpful it will be to have a supportive staff.  

• The career week & alumni network 

I don’t know if other bootcamps do that, but Le Wagon has recently added a career week to the bootcamp, which is week 10, the last one. During that week, they help you with creating your resume & portfolio and they introduce you to developers and product owners so that you can get a feel of what it is like to work in those roles. I liked that holistic vision. They don’t just teach you the web development, they also equip you with tools for your career as a dev or product owner. Throughout the bootcamp, you also have the opportunity to meet alumni during lunch & learn. Every person we met was just so warm and welcoming and willing to share their experience, it was really inspiring. And last but not least, the alumni network is very active all over the world. You have access to a slack where you can contact any alumni anywhere in the world. They also share job offers. It really is a great community to be part of.  It is a challenging program, not for the faint of heart, but if you’re willing to work hard, Le Wagon will make your experience as easy as possible.  Read less

After assessing what I enjoyed most across my marketing roles, I decided I wanted to learn to code because what I wanted most out of my career was to be problem-solving and continuously learning and challenging myself.

I had very little experience writing code prior to the bootcamp, but from day 1 we started learning and coding and building up our confidence each day. The bootcamp is intensive and is very well structured for people at different levels of experience and knowledge. Whether you're a beginner like me, or aren't completely new to tech, the programme is designed for anyone. The teachers are extremely knowledgable and supportive and the overall vibe and energy throughout the programme was amazing.

On top of the tech skills I gained, I was also introduced to an amazing community of people who have helped and guided me throughout my journey. Best experience! Read less

Learning to code in 9 weeks sounds amazing and I needed the courage to start this journey I am so grateful for! After moving to Montreal, I started working in the Gaming Industry and was very curious about coding. In 2020 I finally decided to start a new chapter in my life and joined Le Wagon Bootcamp. During those 9 weeks we learned Ruby, Javascript, Ruby on Rails… During Project weeks, that’s when all knowledge comes together and we create Web Apps we would never imagine!
Something we needed during those 9 weeks was support from the teachers, and we had all the support we needed to complete every challenge and finish the day waiting for the next morning to learn something new. And the most important, Le Wagon leads you to be part of the Tech community, so you have much more support! I am glad to be part of the Tech Community now! Read less

DO IT!! I promise you’ll thank me later. Enrolling in to Le Wagon was the best decision I’ve ever made.
I was looking for a career change and looked in to coding purely because I like riddles. I chose Le wagon as it was recommended by a friend who had recently completed the bootcamp. 
I had no background in tech and now feel completely comfortable in building a web application from scratch, this is due to the intensive and rewarding structure of the course and the amazing staff. The teachers and teachers assistants are super knowledgeable and encouraging. The staff as whole were very inclusive and welcoming and I never felt as though I was being taught by teachers, but more like I was just in an office with friends and some friends just knew more than others.
Aside from the tech skills I was taught, I was introduced to this amazing community which has given me connections all across the globe. I feel I made lifelong friends with the other students from my cohort and the staff.
If you’re looking to explore the tech world as a new comer or looking to up-skill, in a practical, real world environment, working in collaborative teams, I highly recommend Le Wagon Melbourne. Read less

Before the training, I was in consulting where I carried out several missions in the Web Marketing departments of large companies. (What interested me the most in these missions was the technical part) The technical aspects of these missions was the most exciting part to me. I found a real pleasure juggling between HTML, CSS, javascript and Excel/VBA to automate some tasks. After attending the presentation at Le Wagon’s bootcamp, a reconversion in Tech seemed obvious to me!

3 months after the training, I have just launched my website of object givings between individuals. All this, thanks to Le Wagon course and a little patience! Read less

I am a Distance Learning Manager and had always been curious about coding, specially thinking what I could develope in the edtech industry. I'd searched for bootcamps and was quite happy to find the best ranked one (Le Wagon) in my city: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The experience was fantastic from the beginning and not only our group could develope amazing projects, we were also taught on how to plan, build and manage those products. With the Covid-19 issue, we had to move rapidly to online classes but we didn't lose quality - in fact, I think we got even closer. I recommend Le Wagon as a life-changing experience and an exceptional way to gain autonomy and self-confidence in building digital products and connecting to an international community of developers. 

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My experience at this bootcamp was more than I expected. My intention when I joined this program was to merely be able to develop a web-app but I left, not only with the right conceptual tool-set  to attack problem-solving critically and creatively, but with a great community on top of whose shoulders I can stand. The people behind this bootcamp have made sure to think about every possible detail that can benefit you in your learning process, and the quality of the experience clearly shows all of this. Plus, I didn't only learned a humongous amount of skills in a short period of time, I also had a lot of fun while doing it. Yoga classes in the afternoon were a great way of letting of some steam after some intense debugging, going out after a long day with my teachers and fellow students was always very entertaining. I think none of this was a mere coincidence. I think the Le Wagon model is constructed around this idea of creating the perfect context for the student to really take the most advantage of what is being taught to her.  Read less

First of all I'd like everyone to know that attending a boot camp doesn't make you job interview ready. You'll still need to study stuff like data structures and practice solving algorithms. You are looking at a couple of months of studying on your own. Le Wagon doesn't prepare you for that, but neither do most of the coding boot camps. My general wish is that this was somehow mentioned somewhere before you join the boot camp or somewhere along the way. Or probably I should have done my own research better -- whatever it is. 

Regarding Le Wagon boot camp those are the things I enjoyed:
1. People. Teachers were absolutely amazing. Very talented, dedicated when guiding us through the process, and patient. 
The boot camp manager Andrea was absolutely amazing. She would always help with things smallest and biggest, and would always find time to hear you out with any questions and concerns. 
My classmates were pretty great. It was easy to make friends as we seemed to share similar values and goals.
2. Social aspect. We had all sorts of activities and outings organized for us, such as visiting popular attractions, bar outings, even yoga!
3. Collaboration. They have buddy system where you work each day with a new person on exercises, which enforces you to vocalize your thought process and mimics real world pair programming. Towards the middle of the course we all worked in the groups of 3 or 4 on Airbnb clone and our final project. That mimicked real world standup meetings, code reviews, and tasks delegation. 
4. Tech stack. Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, JavaScript combo was exactly the tech stack I was looking for.
5. Definitely can't beat the price which was around $5,000 but ended up less for me after the discount for women in tech. They do have early bird discount as well I think.
6. I loved working on the final project with my team. It's really thrilling to have an idea and work with like minded folks on bringing it to life. Sense of accomplishment and celebration during the final demo day was real.

Things I didn't enjoy or think could have been done better or differently:
1. Pace. It was extremely fast paced with no time to digest the concepts. I'm not entirely new to coding, yet by the week 5 I felt like I couldn't pack concepts into my head anymore. We had pretty much a day for each concept (listening to the lecture in the morning, pair programming the whole day, and then live code in the evening), and the following day we would be learning a new one. That's 10 hours of coding a day every day for 9 weeks with the new material each day. Some of my classmates at some point of the course got lost and were not able to catch up. By the week 7 I simply burned out and almost dropped out myself.
2. I didn't enjoy our attendance being monitored as if we were high school students. All the lectures were recorded and available for viewing on the portal. Better approach in my opinion would be letting folks have their own judgement which lectures they want to attend in person and which to watch on their own as long as people watch them and do the exercises. That would help people manage their energy and prevent folks from being exhausted towards the end of the course.

That's pretty much it. Turned out to be quite a long review, but I feel like it touched pretty important points for folks making decision which boot camp to join. Looking back it was overall a great experience. Throughout the course I felt supported by the Le Wagon team and met bunch of amazing people some of them I can call friends. Read less

I attended Le Wagon London (batch 388) in April of 2020 to gain insight into the world of back end programming and help me gain the technical skills needed to alter my career path. After spending 10 years in the hospitality industry spanning multiple departments one thing became clear, the key to future success rests heavily in a thorough understanding of new technology.  Le Wagon’s fast paced, 9 week curriculum is perfect for turning students of all backgrounds into junior full stack developers. The daily learning schedule is structured for students to get out of the program what they put in, with morning lectures introducing each topic followed by a series of daily challenges to nail home the concepts. After graduating from the Full Stack Development program I had all the confidence and know how needed to move forward with a career in web development. Read less

From the 9-week long coding bootcamp I got technical skills including Ruby, Rails, HTML/CSS, JavaSctipt, product design and deployment(Heroku), which make it possible for me to build a fully-functioned web application from scratch.
Besides the technical skills, I would say I got some more valuables things from this journey - the ability to learn, the way of thinking & solving problems, the way people communicate & collaborate in tech industry. During the booctamp we were all encouraged to collaborate with our 'buddies' (pair programming partner), to ask for help, and to share our thoughts and ideas among the whole batch. These experiences helped me a lot when I did my interview for a graduate program.
I am happy I made the decision to attend Le Wagon, it does give me what I need to become a developer. So if you are really keen to start a career in tech, and have the willingness to keep learning, Le Wagon is definitely an amazing choice. Read less

After 10 years in the creative industry as a Creative Artworker I decided to make the switch and become a Full Stack Developer. I quickly found out that Le Wagon London was a great place to help me achieve my goals and I made the jump and signed up.  The experience was incredible, its amazing the amount of Information your brain can process and the way Le Wagon have structured their bootcamp in phenomenal. I really enjoyed the fact that its a product-oriented approach where there is lots of hands on work as well as the buddy system which teaches you to work with different people and learn different ways of thinking because you get paired with a new person everyday. The teachers are always ready to help you when needed and there are no stupid questions!  Looking at my final project (helprcommunity.com), I still can’t believe my team and I managed to pull this off in 2 weeks. Great job Le Wagon!  Read less

My experience at Le Wagon completely exceeded my expectations.
I started the bootcamp willing to discover more about coding and finished convinced that I wanted to do web development for a living. The whole « La Wagon » pedagogy is truly powerful and effective. You spend 80% of your time practicing and actually coding. Everything you learn and do is focused building working apps. So you end up with a set of skills and tools you can use right away in any web development project. And cherry on the cake, by doing Le Wagon you join a huge and active network of happy tech alumni always helpful and full of good advices.
I totally recommend Le Wagon, a life-changing experience. Read less

I always had lots of entrepreneurial ideas, but never felt ready to test or launch those ideas, because I had no technical skills. Directly after my bootcamp at Le Wagon in Paris, I developed the MVP of one of those ideas. Today, I completely pivoted from that idea and work on a new MVP. Being able to code gives me huge flexibility and enables me as an entrepreneur to test projects at almost no cost. With a traditional business background and first experiences in banking & consulting, I believe Le Wagon is adapted for any profile and has the perfect format to learn quickly how to code while having fun! Read less

Before I joined Le Wagon I was working as an interpreter which was fun but I knew was not what I wanted to do long term. I always wanted to learn to code so I took online courses that I found interesting, but it never worked for me. After I while I’ll get busy from work then I’ll end up forgetting everything I studied which was a waste of time.  That was when I started looking for places where I can focus on studying. And when you search for bootcamps, Le Wagon is always on top of review sites. I was skeptical at first, but still chose them because I liked their curriculum the most.  I will be honest with you that the 9 weeks will be intense and extremely hard especially if you have a limited coding experience like me. It won’t be a vacation and sometimes you’ll think of throwing your laptop away and just quit during the first 3 weeks.  But don’t worry, the teachers are excellent and amazing communicators that you will be able to get through everything just fine.  Overall, it was a great experience and lived up to the reviews. I would definitely recommend it to anyone considering on attending one of their courses.  Read less