Le Wagon

I completed Le Wagon's Web Development bootcamp in Lisbon, Portugal this year, and I must say that I am beyond satisfied with the program!  Before I began, I was having burnout after working in Public Health in a busy hospital.  Le Wagon took me under their wing and prepared me for the web development world in more ways than one.  They encouraged us to be bold, be involved and ask questions, and no question was too silly to ask.  I also appreciated that the instructors taught us best practices used in the industry.

The program was really intense and challenging but so fruitful, especially towards the end when we're expected to produce projects and present them in Le Wagon's Demo Day.  Our team built a marketplace app and another project that featured a live auction!  Le Wagon's staff was there to help us with any issues every step of the way!  I learned so much!

I graduated feeling empowered and prepared to take on the web development field.  If you are debating on whether to attend or not, trust my review and the reviews of others.  You will not be disappointed! Read less

I have attended Le Wagon full time web development bootcamp in Paris. I really loved the result oriented and pragmatic approach to make sure you have all the relevant skills in a 9 weeks time frame. I think the program fits perfect if you are looking to become a full time web developer. But it is also a great fit if you are looking to develop coding skills as an entrepreneur or as a more versatile profile, which is my case. Cherry on the cake: with the alumni network you have the perfect community to help you if needed after the bootcamp. Read less

I'm a graduated Full Stack Web Developer by Le Wagon and my experience was and still is great, since I'm still in contact with many Alumini in the Le Wagon network. It's a complete Bootcamp with practical lessons, where you can resolve may challenges every class with the help of teachers, TA's and your classmates. It's an environment to get you ready for a day to day of a programmer where you most likely will work with a team and have to collaborate with others in the same code. You will learn from scrach all the main skill to learn how to think and work as a programmer. I never had any contact with programming before and with this Bootcamp I fell in love with it and got a job as a junior programmer two months after graduating.  For me it was the best decision I made, putting myself to the challenge of changing careers with the Le Wagon Bootcamp. Read less

I used to work in the banking sector before joining Le Wagon. My mission was to coach clients as well as colleagues in the Retail & Private Banking in their digital transition. Even if the challenge my team and I faced every day was great, I felt it wasn't enough. I wanted to contribute to design and develop the bank's digital channels based on everything I learned from being close to the end users. 

There are many coding schools in Brussels, but I was looking for the one that would allow me to work on real projects from scratch. With Le Wagon, I'm immersed in daily challenges with my buddy and a team of teachers if any problem is detected. As the challenges progress, my buddy and I feel like devs, startup founders, designers, and much more! incredible feeling! I discovered new tools and concepts used in the tech world and sometimes deepened my knowledge for some of them I already knew. You will end this training with more opportunities than DEV back-end, front-end and FullStack if you want to choose another path: growth marketer/hacker, UI/UX designer, product manager, product owner,.... The experience was amazing and I highly recommend it to EVERYONE.  Learning and/or understanding code at Le Wagon is the best way to stay competitive or to reorient your career. The opportunities are just huge! Read less

I did the full-time Le Wagon Data Science Bootcamp remotely in Rio de Janeiro. It was an amazing experience, far better than I was expecting. 

Firstly, the course is very focused on practice: we spent about 6 hours per day coding and solving challenges. 

Secondly, the course shows us a wide range of tools/topics that we can use on our projects and future jobs: SQL, statistics, storytelling, machine learning, deep learning, and data engineering. 

Besides, students have the opportunity to finish the Bootcamp with their project: 

1.  we choose what is the topics of the project; 
2.  we do the project ourselves (teachers and TA just give help when needed, they don't do the project for us); and 
3.  we present the project (on Youtube). 

This final project is quite challenging but we learn a lot from it. 
Last but not least, the networking opportunity is amazing, not only with our colleagues in the Bootcamp but also with the rest of the Le Wagon community (more than 10,000 ex-students). 

To summarize, if I had to go back in time and decide if I would do (or not) the Bootcamp, I would decide to do it again without any doubt.  Read less

For me, Le Wagon Lisbon was the place to be. It was winter, and Lisbon has better weather than the more Nordic parts of Europe. Course #803 consisted of 11 students. Finding a job was not my top priority. I wanted the ability to create a full-stack website out of my head.

Whilst I had plenty of experience, I did not know where to start, how to put a workable architecture together and deliver a finished website. This bootcamp helped me with everything and produced an end-to-end web app. It was very fast paced. I’ve waited 6 weeks before writing a review as I wanted to go over everything again at my own pace.

The concept of a bootcamp comes from the military: “Sweat saves blood.” The complete day-to-day curriculum is known up-front. Which means you must keep up. If not, you are coached to help you where you are weak. If you were stuck for more than 20 minutes, you could ask for help. So, with 5 minutes discussion you were on the move again instead of spending the rest of the day on google looking for answers. Everybody needs some help at some stage. It might sound tough but if you pass the pre-course work you should be fine, provided you work hard.

Most days follow the same pattern. The day starts with an instructor giving you a demo of the day’s topic. There is never any doubt that what you learn works because you see it happening before your very eyes. The rest of the day is spent solving a structured set of problems. 

My mother often said that a bad workman always blames his tools. This is very true in the software world. However, “I saw it done this morning” is a powerful motive to get on with the job and stop doubting the tools. Buddy programming works very well. You can inspire each other and solve problems much more quickly. 

For two weeks I accessed the course remotely. If you must know I was in London visiting my new grandchild. Nobody said the course was only for young people!

In the middle of the course I had my "senior moment." I forgot my Linux root password and had to re-install my entire laptop. Very embarrassing. However, due to the course design, everything was in the cloud so I lost no data.

The career week was awesome. I was able to redesign my CV. Some of the invited companies were my old employers so I was able to recommend them as good workplaces. 

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I had such an amazing experience with this bootcamp. First of all, its manager is a SUPER leader. Milene has amazing leadership skills and helped everybody (and still does!) throughout the course. Second, the teachers are really good and since they are all alumni, they know exactly how desperate we are when doing our first mvc based app. Third, the sense of community is huge.

So, if you are looking to leverage your programming skills, or migrate to tech field, enroll yourself in one of Le Wagon's bootcamp. You can't go wrong and you'll surely learn lots of hard skills and soft skills.

Soft skills? Yeah! We are invited to pitch an idea to be developed as a final project. While developing it, we do it as teams, with scrum dailies and kanban. Also, throughout the journey, you learn you are not alone and if you are stuck on a problem, you can open a ticket with a TA (as you would schedule a call with a senior on your job). Read less

Simply the best bootcamp in Brazil if you are looking to learn how to code surrounded by creative and open-minded people. Their campus is great, the staff is very well-educated and receptive, and their curriculum is especially good for those who are looking for a career change and have an aptitude for technology! Read less

I had a great experience at Le Wagon. 
My personal goal for 2022 was to get out of my comfort zone and challenge myself by trying to shift into a career in tech. And I'm very happy that I decided to do that at a place like Le Wagon.

I highly recommend Le Wagon for anyone wanting to learn how to code, no matter if you some or zero experience. 
The pace is fast, yes, some days are tough, also yes, you will have moments where you feel overwhelmed, definitely yes, but seeing the amount of information you can absorb and what you can achieve in only 9 weeks is totally worth it.

Another thing that made this experience worth was the environment on campus. Coming from some difficult covid years, it felt so good to be able to be on campus and meet so many great individuals, from colleagues to teachers to staff and I will be forever thankful to all of them.

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I can really recommend the Data Science bootcamp at Le Wagon in Munich. Although it is an intense period of 9 weeks, you have the opportunity to not only learn A LOT everyday, but to be part of a team of people that are just as amibitious as you are. After learning about theories and concepts, you get corresponding challanges which make the new knowledge you have just learned stick. If you have questions at whatever point of the day, there are always very motivated teachers around you ready to jump in and help you find the solution/answers yourself with their guidence. Even after the bootcamp, you can remain part of the huge Le Wagon community which I find not only helpful, but I am also grateful for that. Read less

Le Wagon is definitely a life changing experience I would recommend it to anyone! It seems impossible going from none coding experience to being able to build an app in just 9 weeks!; But it is indeed possible! At Le Wagon you’ll learn the foundations and you’ll develop a way of thinking in which is easier to learn any other programming language.
The quality of teachers and teacher assistants is extraordinary; whenever I had a doubt or I was confused with an exercise, I always received guidance and never felt uncomfortable asking for help. The Barcelona crew was always supportive, helpful, empathetic and kind. One of my favorite things about Le Wagon was that it felt as if we were a family, and even though that we were a super diverse group, we all came from different backgrounds and nationalities but among other things we had one special thing in common: We all wanted to change our life through learning to code.  Le Wagon is amazing by itself, but having the opportunity to do the bootcamp in a vibrant city such as Barcelona is a great add on! Read less

Jamais je n'aurais cru qu'en 9 semaines j'allais vraiment pouvoir apprendre à coder. Eh bien si ! J'ai été surpris par le programme extremement bien conçu qui permet d'apprendre à programmer même si on a jamais touché au code auparavant ! L'équipe est sérieuse, sympathique, dispo et passionnée. Vraiment une super formation ! Read less

For 9 intensive weeks, I had the privilege of being part of the Full-Stack Web Development Bootcamp at Le Wagon Lisbon. It was a truly mind-blowing, demanding, stimulating experience, and it is insane to see how much we have learned and progressed over only two months. I know what you are thinking, and no, I didn't have any sort of background in coding. I had never understood a line of code in my life before attending Le Wagon, and after only one month, I can proudly say that I found a job as a Web Developer!  Read less

Before coming to Le Wagon, my knowledge of coding was very insufficient and pre-mature. Having the support of such knowledgeable and skilled teachers made learning so motivational and inspiring. Going through this journey with 19 other students, some with more, some with less coding experience than myself definitely made the experience easier. Big thank you to the whole team for all the support! Read less

Not all details matter the same

A few days ago I read this tweet that said that perfectionism was the mistake of thinking that all details matter equally. For some reason, that has stucked with me. And I feel like it's a very appropriate quote to define what I like about Le Wagon: it's about the details that matter.

We could talk in circles about learning or not learning Ruby. About focusing more on JavaScript. Maybe having a little more time with Rails outside of the frenzy of projects week. Fine. All of those would be valid observations. 

But, to me, those are details that don't matter that much. 

Because at the end of the day, I don't think those are the things that determine if doing Le Wagon is worth it. There's only so much you can do in 9 weeks, and I would have no other way of describing that time other than incredibly productive and exciting. While investigating other bootcamps many times I felt like they were selling a bit of a dream: 9 weeks and you will know everything. I always felt that Le Wagon was more honest and modest: in 9 weeks you will have solid fundamentals and yes, you will be ready to start working. As ready as you could ever be. Just be prepared to work for it and you will get all that you could ever need.

I am gonna tell you the details that do matter to me:

- That I felt and feel at home on campus
- That I had some of the best teachers of my life
- That I made friends that are dear to me
- That I was able to work on something that I could be proud of
- And yes, that I learned so much, so fast. And had a solid enough grasp to continue learning on my own.

From the start, I always felt that things in Le Wagon were made with passion and care. Maybe, just maybe I feel the need to emphasize this because every now and then the memories from Vietnam resurface: my university, high school and language classes. A small sense of dread and apathy in the curriculum and the activities that you did on your day to day. Places filled with wonderful teachers that could only do so much before they were crushed by the vile and dumb institution they were part of. And for no good reason. 

I don't know how to explain the difference sometimes, maybe it's how well prepared all the activities and the platform is, maybe it's being surrounded by people with the same drive to learn that you have. But there is something very different and noticeable between the education that I received all my life and what I received in Le Wagon. Just a sense of "Oh, yeah. This was how education was supposed to be all along".

I liked that the classes were very well thought out. That you had exercises with their tests to check against. That you had a ticket system. The great teachers. The teachers taking a little bit of time to show us things that maybe weren't directly related to the course, but that were maybe as important. Those 15 mins nerding about keyboard shortcuts and VS Code extensions, or the history of web development. The odd interview of Matz, creator of Ruby, where he jokes about the inevitable demise of humans to Terminator. Or that one time where a teacher showed us Conway's game of life, and we felt a little bit prouder about being programmers too.

I know from learning Japanese that you don't *need* classes to learn something. You don't need university, you don't need a bootcamp.

But you do need people. People that care. People that are a joy to work with. And you do need some structure, a good routine and someone to point you in the right direction. And those are the things that you will always find in Le Wagon.

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Such a great learning experience, the methodology used for learning coding is world-class! From knowing almost nothing about the subject to being able to build complex web-applications in a matter of 10 weeks. The school teaches Ruby on Rails which is a really intuitive language to learn, and gives you all the tools to become a professional developer. Read less

A great experience overall, would highly recommend Le Wagon Barcelona for someone just getting started on their journey in the coding world. You will learn Ruby and Ruby on Rails to make your first web applications, which are great to learn for those just starting out. The bootcamp gives you everything you need to learn these, at the end of the day you have to be willing to struggle at times and put in the work during and after the bootcamp. Lastly, if you do decide to join the bootcamp, I would heavily recommend making connections with your classmates because for me, the relationships that you build with them is one of the best parts of the bootcamp! Read less

Working as a business consultant, I wanted to add technical assets to my skillset. Le Wagon was the perfect match: it allowed me to develop these skills, thanks to its great pedagogical system and supporting teachers and assistants. The part-time program also offered me the flexibility to combine with my full-time job. 100% would recommend! Read less

After finishing college with a Computer Science Degree, I worked for a year as a QA tester while
doing personal projects.
I decided to join Le Wagon to learn what it is to be a Web Developer and to move my career forward. Throughout the Bootcamp, I learned everything from the backend to the frontend. The last 3 weeks were the best part of the Bootcamp. In a team of 4, we had to build 2 amazing full-stack applications. One would be an Airbnb clone and the other is to connect waiters and restaurant owners. At the end of it all, we had to present it on stage, in Infront of many people. All in all, it was a great experience and I would definitely recommend it to anyone curious about Web Development. Read less