Le Wagon

Prior to the Le Wagon bootcamp, I was working in aviation for my entire career. I wanted to make a career change into tech and doing a bootcamp was a natural and easy choice for me to help me tap my toes into the industry. I found Le Wagon after a serious of research and have spoken to a friend who completed her bootcamp with Le Wagon Barcelona and was super happy about her experience. I like that Le Wagon compared to other bootcamps available, are more focused on building the foundations of create an end product. This really helps for people like myself who have zero tech knowledge and background and be able to see what I would be able to build during and after the bootcamp. Additionally, all of the staff at Le Wagon Montreal are extremely approachable, helpful and really care for the students to ensure that its a right fit for you. I would highly recommend Le Wagon if anyone is every considering doing a bootcamp.  Read less

Hi,
I have been asked to review my experience at Le Wagon Tokyo and it is with pleasure that I do so.
I would like to share here why I decided to join this Bootcamp, what I gained from it and how I would like to use these new skills.

A little self-introduction, I am french, 34 y.o living in Tokyo for 10 years leading one of the largest French company to grow in Asia.
I had a comfortable situation, good salary, respect and consideration from my peers. However, I felt that my experience reached a limit, I got asked to get back to France to become a director and settle down there.
I refused and wanted another challenge.

I navigated in the world of tech, digital, and innovation for a long time, but haven't really taken time or effort to dedicate myself to learning what it means to be in the tech side of the force.
I thought I knew. If you read this and you are not a developer, you think you know too... but trust me... you don't.

Why?
Joining Le Wagon, my aim wasn't to become a full-time developer but to be part of the crew and understand better the digital world. Speaking the same language and mostly being able to prototype my tech ideas.

In short, LW is a well-structured program, complete and product-oriented which I enjoyed - particularly at the end of the program, where it becomes more real, visual, usable. But I won't lie, it wasn't easy, I struggled, a lot and for "once" I wasn't the best / smartest in the room. I took my pride, put it on the side, got more humble, hanged on, and most of all trusted the process.

The program
You have to prep BEFORE the Bootcamp. It's really important to decide at least 1 month prior.
Don't worry, teachers are great and will take it step by step. But I would advise to start get familiar with some notions earlier to be aware of the vocabulary and concepts.
You know - returning an array-  calling a method?....

Le Wagon starts from the basics - reviewing all aspects of Ruby and how things works.  How it works and why.
you'll team up with someone different every day to do the exercises to support you and learn teamwork. You'll learn back end - front end - and finally how frameworks works.
RUBY - JS - SQL - HTML - CSS - REACT you'll learn a lot of different languages. No worries, you'll have to handle them because you'll have some projects/products to work on and to pitch to the world :)
Teacher are Amazing, Dedicated and will give all they got to help you 1 - Will question you to make you understand by yourself how to realize what you have in mind 2- Help you out if too complicated  3 - Make you feel like an idiot when you actually are one and got the answer all by yourself from the beginning... -You just needed someone to make you realize that you were actually an idiot :) and that's ok!:) 

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It is a money and time investment!
So it means that you need to dedicate yourself to it for the whole Bootcamp. Don't take it lightly.
If you wanna change your career or create something new, you got a whole organization and network which can make your ideas up and running for real. Use this time to try/craft your ideas.

Overall
You will become a product-oriented Fullstack dev with a network of 8000+ alumni.
I learned a lot thanks to Le Wagon. And I know that I am capable of releasing a Webapp as of today. 
I feel that I'll be able to use these skills either in the corp world and in my future start up projects. It's a door a whole new world, one that you'll be able to eat bit by byte. Read less

Before the Bootcamp, I had spent the last ten months seeking employment in the financial services industry with fairly little success and then just as I began to make progress in securing a grad scheme, a global pandemic took hold and life was put on hold. However, as the saying goes: "every cloud has a silver lining", in my case this disruption to my post-uni-career-launch allowed for a reassessment of my goals and ambitions. I had, for a long time been fascinated with the application of coding and the growing importance of data but always considered them supplementary skills to a professional financial qualification. After months of research and talking with people, it's now very clear that the reality is quite the opposite! I had heard about Le Wagon through a family friend and looked into joining as early as February but the only course on offer was the Web Development one and although the application of web development is cool and a useful skill I wasn't sure it was quite for me given that my interests lean more heavily on data analytics and then Le Wagon London launched its Data Science Bootcamp - the timing was perfect. The Bootcamp itself was incredibly intensive from before the get-go with forty hours of prep-work but it set the tone nicely for the nine-weeks of hard-work!
I'll admit it, I was nervous to see if the Bootcamp could be as successful as previous batches given the current social climate with social distance enforcement but the teaching staff absolutely smashed it and the learning experience was fantastic and fluent. Despite being thrown in the deep-end from Day 1, the TA's did a great job and showed great patience, going slowly where required, through every ticket raised during the daily live challenges and adequately answering or referring questions.
My favourite part of the Bootcamp has to be the final project - for mine, my team used machine learning algorithms to accurately predict the results of premier league football matches, solely relying on the data we collected rather than any existing domain knowledge. The project was largely a success and combined almost everything we had covered in the 7 weeks before as well as more, which is likely an excellent reflection of what's to come in my forthcoming career as a data scientist. Read less

I enrolled in the Le Wagon web development bootcamp from July until September 2020. I couldn't have been happier with what I learned, with the support I got, and how they prepared me for the future. The curriculum is focused on product which makes it very diverse and prepares well to tackle all aspects of full stack development. I found the teachers incredibly knowledgable and involved in making the student's journey as best as possible. It was at times challenging but also extremely rewarding. Once finished you actually have a couple of products to add to your portfolio. I would highly recommend Le Wagon to everyone who wants to learn coding and build products.   Read less

A very rich experience and really intense : it's incredible how many things you can learn and assimilate in just 2 months. We know that we still have to work a lot to become a good developer but that's a great base on which we can rely on today. The staff is friendly and trying hard every time to make students become more confident on themselves. I'm very happy about Le Wagon bootcamp and do not regret a single second of having chosen this training. Read less

Joining Le Wagon bootcamp was a life-changing experience for me. As a person with a background in finance from University and a full-time trader in the stock market, learning to code gave me many more tools to advance in my career. At Le Wagon I learned the skill set to build web applications for my personal projects. Also, I now have many more opportunities to join financial tech firms. The amount of resources that Le Wagon gave me to find new opportunities in the tech world is outstanding and I am very glad to be part of this amazing organization Read less

Embarking on the 9-week long Data Science journey with Le Wagon was the best career decision I have made. It equipped me with all the technical skills and theoretical knowledge necessary to set my foot in the industry as a data scientist, while establishing an inspiring community of people with various backgrounds. My favourite aspect of the bootcamp was the availability and helpfulness of teachers and our own data science project at the end of the programme where my team created a skin cancer detection machine learning algorithm, something I knew little about before joining Le Wagon. Read less

Le Wagon’s 9 week web development bootcamp was a door-opening experience and one that lived up to more than my expectations. It certainly was intense and tiring, but I enjoyed every moment and am astounded by the amount that I have learnt in such a short period of time. On top of coding every day, you meet so many like-minded students and teachers that make the experience ever more rewarding. At the end, you become part of a large community of Le Wagon alumni, with continuous support and opportunities, such that the experience never ends! I definitely would recommend Le Wagon to anyone thinking about moving into the world of tech. Read less

I highly recommend le Wagon not only if you want to change your career, but if you also want to to advance in your existing career! Technology is becoming increasingly important in all sectors, and this was why I attended le Wagon: to stay relevant and to move forward. Those 9 weeks are intense and they challenge your intelligence and resilience, but the amount of information you learn is unbelievable! The program is so well built from day 1 and until you present your final project. The teachers are absolutely top-notch, world-class educators, and the environment is very friendly and supportive. I applied for a job that I thought was a very long shot while I was at le Wagon, and I got it! It was a huge step up in my career, and the main reason I was chosen over other candidates was my (fairly new) knowledge in technology. I started the new job a week after I finished at le Wagon. 
This IS the best bootcamp out there. Don’t think twice! Read less

When I joined Le Wagon Montreal, I was already had experience in IT industry but what attracted me most was the content of the curriculum. It is all about trending skills in IT, from problem-solving, Agile mindset, best practices, design, clean coding, DevOps tools such as Git/GitHub, and TDD to deployment on the cloud, and also constant learning, communication, collaboration, and how to present effectively the final product to the audience. At Le Wagon, all the teachers and TA are absolutely top-notch, and the personal and the students were exceptional. It was like a second family, and hope to keep in touch with this great network of people! At the end of the course, my team and I built a robust and user-friendly web application from scratch. From user requirement analysis, design, implementation to deployment on Heroku, using Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Git/GitHub, Trello, Agile mindset, Figma. The nine weeks were really intensive and challenging but also exciting and a very rewarding experience, because it was not only about shipping the final product and learning all daily aspect of development life, but also all recommendations and support we got from the personal and teachers that makes us stand out of the crowd. I would recommend Le Wagon to anyone who wishes to learn in-demand skills in IT and take their career to the next level. It is definitely a great experience.
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Coming from a non-technical background, I can confirm that LW's mission statement to "teach coding to creative minds" is true. During my bootcamp, I learned core programming concepts, computational thinking, problem solving and learning how to self-learn. On the product side, I walked away with the ability to map out user personas, create user stories, MVPs, foundational design skills, and once again how to continue building on what I learned during those 10-11 weeks. It is as intensive as they tell you, so whatever preparation you have in mind, do twice as much. Luckily, you have a solid group of peers to support you on your journey and lifetime access to every subject you'll learn in case you want to revisit it. The teachers, TAs and Le Wagon community and alumni are what make this program worth it. You'll walk away with new skills, friends and a community you can always lean on. Read less

Before joining Le Wagon Web dev bootcamp I used to work as a tech recruiter. I worked in different companies over the last 4 years, mainly in VFX and in IT consulting. But I always felt like I was missing technical skills for my daily job. Before deciding to enroll in the bootcamp I had already done a few classes online, which I believe help me catch on concepts faster the first couple of weeks. But it was definitely not a requirement. The entire bootcamp is so well done that you learn new concepts every day but have all the tools and support to understand and use them. I was impressed with how structured the program was. Each day we had classes, challenges, live code, and flashcards, which gave us a strong foundation, to build on from. The entire team at Le Wagon Montreal was really nice and supportive, and they created a great learning environment. Coming out of the Le Wagon I think I have a good foundation to become a web developer and a great structure to keep learning and improve my skills.
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I had a great time joining this bootcamp.  I was a bit worried because I'm closer to 40 than 30 and wasn't sure if I would fit in.  After getting over initial nerves I can honestly say age didn't matter.  The support the teachers and staff gave during the camp was amazing.  The learning atmosphere was both challenging and fun.  I think that if you have the time, energy and ability to learn this course will be great for you. Read less

Before joining Le Wagon Oslo I used to work in tourism, hospitality, and translation, but I felt that the skills I gained at the university were not enough to compete in the job market. I heard about Le Wagon from a friend who managed to change her career and find a job as a software developer after finishing the bootcamp, so I decided to try myself in coding as well.
Le Wagon offers 9 weeks full-time web development course (or 24 weeks part-time course) that covers among others Git and GitHub, Ruby, SQL, HTML & CSS, JavaScript and Ruby on Rails. You can learn both the front-end and the back-end, which allows you to create the whole web app from scratch, instead of focusing only on one aspect of it. Many of my fellow students were interested in coding for some time before the course (but many were completely new to it as well), but they didn't know how to use the skills they have gained from different online courses and tutorials. And this is a great thing about Le Wagon's program: it leads you from the process of building software from A to Z, helping to put together everything you learned during the course and upfront. Once you are done with the bootcamp you have a great base to either start at the junior position right away or continue with self-teaching without feeling lost and overwhelmed. 
Another important aspect of the Le Wagon program is the community. Bootcamp is not only a learning adventure but also a social experience that lasts even when the bootcamp is over.  Being part of a huge (5000+) community of wagoners means that there is always someone you can ask for help, share job offers and experiences, and simply make good friends. 
It is not an easy course, but if you are dedicated and hard-working it is worth it. 

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 Le Wagon is a special adventure, extraordinarily rich on learning the technique to code in the right way by asking the right questions from the start. You do not necessarily need to come at the beginning with a solid technical background or from a specific sector to understand the basics. Once you understand the basics of coding, the learning curve is exponential. From my perspective, I did not expect to find a training that could give me such in-depth knowledge of web development and all the other aspects that surround it. In addition, you also learn to code in teams straight from the start, which is great to progress and not to feel overwhelmed. The final projects, which are the cherry on the cake after spending several months of coding is the best way to materialize all the knowledge learned during the bootcamp. Hats off to the staff, teachers, and teachers’ assistants for the remarkable work they have done all along the bootcamp!  Read less

After more than 20 years in online travel partnerships and biz-dev leadership roles, I decided to jump on the Wagon's first ever full-remote bootcamp as Paris confined mid-March 2020, as part of Paris Spring Batch #400. 
There would lots to say about the benefits brought by getting hands-on coding experience for a non-developer like me. De-constructing the IT-department or tech-team divide is just essential in times where every company should embrace tech and be agile in its implementation. 
What stroke me was the quality of teaching and all-round experience of the bootcamp. Learning a full development framework bottom-up, back-front end coding languages, working on a project as a team using Github and finally, wrapping it all up by taking a problem, building a product and pitching it in the final two week run. Many of the classes taught me skills and know-how I had seen from afar before. Le Wagon has allowed me to demystify web-development, understand some of the stress factors when dealing or selling to developers and how nimble startups can beat large and wealthy corporates on innovation. In addition to LeWagon methodology, tools and teachers, LeWagon alumni network, community and career services are a valuable source of future contacts and opportunities of all sorts.
I highly recommend the course for those working with tech teams (eg Product/Project managers, entrepreneurs or tech sales), interested to get hands-on experience and a better understanding of the tech "black-box". Read less

After graduating from Marangoni and working a few years in the fashion industry, I realized that my true passion is programming.
I decided to sign up to Le Wagon because of the very positive feedback I found across various websites.I have chosen part time session because I wanted to take time and understand each chapter profoundly.
I greatly enjoyed the course! it was a real confidence boost to feel comfortable learning new skills by myself and applying for developer roles after just a few months. I cannot recommend Le Wagon more! Read less

My experience attending Le-Wagon Bali was nothing short of extraordinary! After trying to code on my own for several years and making little progress; I had decided to take my learning to the next level. Having done hours of research for the best program; Le-Wagon kept popping up nearly everywhere on the internet with raving 5 star reviews. I was really cautious to spend money on the program as I am a conservative spender, however my ROI(return on investment) has already payed me back only a few months out of the program. The 9 weeks were super jam-packed with so much to remember; however I still have access to all the content and more through the Le-Wagon learning platform. My only regret is that I didn’t take the course years ago! Im now building applications I have always wanted to do. A big thanks to Le-Wagon and the amazing instructors for the amazing lectures, atmosphere and 101 help to advance my learning to code. I would recommend anyone who desires to learn to code and change their life to lean into Le-Wagon as it was the best education and experience money could buy. Read less

More than a school! I Was looking for a place where I could sharpen my Pyhton skills. A friend of mine told me once LE WAGON and its DataScience program could provide what I needed. I am a former architect, so it was not a foregone conclusion! But I was accepted. I found a real family! LE WAGON crew, teachers, and students, all of them were so reliable and skilled even when we started the two last weeks of projects. Lectures are truly well structured, and teacher’s explanation are noticeably clear. You do really have the feeling that you are experiencing you next job and not learning something more to add at the end of your CV.
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I had the chance and the opportunity to participate in the training course of Le Wagon # 378 which I discovered thanks to many interviews with top candidates who graduated from Le Wagon and became today PM or PO in very nice startups.

I embarked in February 2020 for six months of training, which at the beginning seemed crazy and very complicated to manage between my full time job (recruitment consultant) and the courses. But as we completed assignments one after another, I got really invested and time went by very quickly. When we reached ¾ of the training, we had to design an Airbnb-like rental site. This is where one really puts into practice all the things he learnt and starts to feel invincible (haha). 

It was a very interesting experience.
I learnt a lot of skills and developed many new ideas ! I really encourage people who want to retrain, start a project or just learn new things to join Le Wagon because it’s truly a beautiful adventure. Read less