Le Wagon

My name is Marcus and I have an economics/finance background. 

After working in the financial market in Rio (my hometown) and in a global consulting firm both in Brazil and Australia, I decided it was time for a change - the idea of starting my own business to help solving one of Brazil’s many problems simply got stuck in my head. I quit my job in Australia and came back to Rio to start putting the plan to motion. 

Several months passed by and I was struggling to decide which idea to pursue. I was also not able to find a friend to be my technical cofounder. Then, a couple of friends suggested me to study at Le Wagon, as it would give me the basic skills to work on my mvp and meet people some amazing people. Sounded good, so I jumped in. 

The bootcamp was really good and I was gladly surprised with the amount of stuff I learned in such a short period of time. I also did meet a lot of interesting and fun people. :)

Now I just started my own project (www.vagazap.com), a web app to help workers connect with companies with available jobs in a practical way. I would strongly recommend Le Wagon! :)

I enrolled at Le Wagon as part of my last year at HEC, in Entrepreneurship Major, where I wanted to acquire key technical skills and develop my product knowledge, two essential topics in order to launch a company and that are not really covered in business School.

Le Wagon curriculum is extremely well constructed and interesting. Each day, you follow a new lesson before practicing with another student through exercices. The day ends with a "debrief" group. The days follow each other quickly, each focusing on a specific technical subject.

It is a real pleasure (and a achievement!) to keep such a learning curve throughout the 9 weeks, in an incredible atmosphere of exchanges and mutual help.

Since the end of the Wagon, I try to continue this learning through MOOCs or freelance work missions and intend to join a startup to become a product manager soon

Le wagon is an impressive experience for people like me who wants to learn to code ; in less than 3 months, we learn all what is necessary to well understand front-end, back-end and database issues. It's a very efficient way of learning with both theory and practise through exercices and usecases. All of them are also available online (for life for the alumni !). Le Wagon has skyhit all my targets and represents an essential asset in my everyday job as a tech entrepreneur and freelance consultant in digital transformation. I highly recommend the journey, it will change your professionnal life !

After graduating from Law School, I joined a Business School because I was more and more interested in entrepreneurship. After graduating from Business School, I wanted to launch two web projects but I did not have enough technical skills. That's why I joined Le Wagon Paris : learning to code was a way to become autonomous, allowing me to create the first versions of the products I had in mind. At the beginning, I just saw Le Wagon as a step to achieve my goals. But it turned out to be much more than that!! I did launch my two projects but I also loved Le Wagon's experience so much that I am now a Teacher Assistant at Le Wagon Paris. Right now, I could not ask for a better job than teaching and working on my personal projects. Thank you so much to Le Wagon's team for this life-changing experience!!

I consider myself a creative person and I am a hard-worker energy engineer who wants a zero carbon future. I have spent the last 6 years applying innovation to sustainable energy and I came to the point where I realised my skills were not enough, they were not future-proof. On the one hand I was talking how the digital world was disrupting energy and I was selling this, however I had not idea how tech was actually achieving this disruption. On the other hand I have always had many ideas and I could not transform them in anything else but boring power points. I knew I needed to learn to code. A friend recommended Le Wagon. I spent weeks reading about Bootcamps, benefits, disadvantages, and I was surprised how many good reviews Le Wagon had, to be honest I was even a bit skeptical. And here I am writing my review… I am truly grateful for how much I learn in these 9 weeks, I was afraid of that black window called the Terminal which I had never used in my life, and today I can use 4 of those at the same time. I lead a team of 3 developers using Agile methodology, and I am really proud to say I am a tech energy engineer, I can speak the language and understand the challenges (APIs, data structures, TDD, etc.). Le Wagon truly changed my life for the better, I can prototype my very own ideas and is such a powerful skill. The bootcamp teaches you all what you need to keep learning. Their methodology, support, environment and good vibes makes it unique. No need to hesitate, just take the jump, it is worth it.

I attended the LW coding bootcamp (batch #209 in Tel-Aviv) and can honestly say that deciding to do LW was the best decision I made in 2018. If you're interested in problem solving or are a very visual person like myself, you'll love this coding bootcamp. It provides both in abundance. My main reason for doing the bootcamp and giving up my job was because I wanted more of a hard skill to complement my soft-skills. 

I am very happy that I did in Tel-Aviv. The people running the show there are fantastic. They really cared about our development and put in a lot of extra efforts to make us get the most out of it. In addition, the country is worth visiting, which you'll have time for during the weekends. Overall, I would highly recommend what I did to anyone else (at least if you're doing it for the right reasons -> interest, like doing something technical, and willing to solve problems)

Le Wagon does live up to its slogan "Change your life, learn to code". I’m a oceanography student and a employee in a laboratory at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), one of the biggest universities in Brazil. I used to work basically with data analysis using Python, but we needed someone to work with I.T. One day I was sitting in my chair at my job and my boss just came to me asking if I would like to do Le Wagon (she knows that I love to code). In the beginning I was not really interested because the batch would start in my vacation (so no vacation...), but I started to search about the course and read reviews and then got excited! This was the time that I started batch #230 at Le Wagon in Rio de Janeiro. The bootcamp was hard, intense, painful and one of the best experiences in my life. The days that I spent at Le Wagon learning how to code can not be compared with anything. At the end of the batch, all students were amazed about what we could build with the knowledge acquired in the 9-week-program. Le Wagon will treat you as family and in the end you will look at classmates, teachers and staff in the same way. I will miss really hard Le Wagon, because you always miss your family. Thank you guys, for everything.

It was absolutely a great experience to went to Le Wagon’s bootcamp in Rio de Janeiro this year. 

I have an Art and Literature background and I work in the Art field for a few years. I have two brothers that work in the tech field and I was always keen to know more about it. I love to practice creativity and building things, and despite it was a different field, that was still all about the same. 

At some point in my life I decided to take the chance and learn to code. I try to learn on my own but I was always lost and with that kind of sensation that I will have to reinvent the wheel. That’s when I came across Le Wagon; a friend was about to start a very good and intense programming course. I was ready to move to São Paulo and went to know Le Wagon’s office there, but then plans have changed and I decided to do in Rio.

We’ve shared so many good moments during the batch, and I’ve made very good friends! It was amazing what we have done together. Lots of good memories. I am very grateful to be part of it!

A month after finishing Le Wagon’s bootcamp in Rio de Janeiro, all I can say about it is that it was a life changing experience! I have a law background and practiced law for a few years, but always had a love for technology and building new things. After some time, I decided that I needed a career change and that I wanted to learn to code. First, I decided to try learning purely on my own, with a complete self-learning approach using some of the online courses available today. I was a little bit lost, not knowing on what to focus and, in the end, a little frustrated with the pace things were moving. That’s when I came across Le Wagon. I was in Sao Paulo with a developer friend who had been a student there and he told me to go to Le Wagon’s office and I got really excited with what they presented to me. The batch in Sao Paulo had already started a week ago by that time, so I decided to do it in Rio. Two weeks later, there I was, on the first day of the bootcamp. I had no idea of how the next 9 weeks would be so intense both in learning and in pleasure of getting to know amazing people and understanding that I was completely right to change my career path and had found the right place to learn to code. It was incredible what we all could build after the bootcamp! 3 amazing apps from scratch to production! I feel very proud of being part of the Le Wagon family! Thank you all, guys!!

The thing I loved most were the teachers who were seriously interested in my learning. The ones who showed up hour+ before lecture and stay til 10pm+ to answer questions. These were most often the same teachers that would spend significant time outside of class, for instance going to meals or the beach or other activities, with the students. It was during these bonus times that I really felt like I learned the mentality of a successful programmer. Also during these times I forged the bond with teachers that allowed me to feel totally comfortable to ask deep questions over and over until I really understood the wide framework needed to build Rails projects from start to finish!