Le Wagon

I'm an internet professional with more than 10 years of experience in digital analytics, growth and product optimization.
I've spent several years working for top tech start-ups in Barcelona; and last 3 launching my own projects working as a freelance and bootstrapping entrepreneur. 

I really wanted to learn the basics of coding in order to improve my working relationship with developers, as a big part of my duties include dealing with tech specs and working closing with them; and also to gain more independence when tackling my own projects. 

Le wagon has definitely been the perfect choice for me, as it allowed to dig deep into software development basics and get the fundamentals in order to be able to program my own digital products.

It was also an amazing opportunity to get in touch with an amazing group of motivated and talented individuals during a nine weeks learning process.

I'd definitely recommend it to anyone looking forward to adding this highly valuable skill-set to their abilities. 

Hey I am Alex,
Before I joined Le Wagon for the 9-weeks bootcamp, I studied Business administration at a business school in Germany. During my studies I always wanted to learn coding but never found the time to do so. Therefore, I decided to apply for Le Wagon during my Gap Year, to close the gap between business and Tech.

The nine week program really helped me to learn the fundamentals of coding from Scratch and build two complete products in a very short time. After the bootcamp I continued to work further on my Business background by doing an internship in a Private Equity firm, and I am planning to do an internship in a Tech company to apply the knowledge I learned at Le wagon.

Le Wagon was an experience of a Lifetime, I highly recommend it!

Applying at Le Wagon Milan has been one of the best decisions I ever made.

I applied while working a part-time job at a hotel, unsatisfied and at a loss on which direction to take for my future. I've always had a dormant interest in coding, but had no skills whatsoever and thought code was way out of my league.
I was scared, since all of my skills while studying were in humanities, and thought my logic wasn't strong enough to endure all of the small implicacies in code. Le Wagon showed me that this wasn't the case at all.

The course makes you instantly feel welcome, everyone is high energy and determined. The positivity is contagious, and while undeniably tough, I ended up waking up every morning with a smile on my face, eager to learn more.

It doesn't matter what your starting point is, teachers are always patient and happy to help you, and the course is structured so you challenge yourself every day and learn. Nobody is left behind. It's the polar opposite of traditional schooling, as they make it a point to make you leave Le Wagon with two projects under your belt and able to make a website from scratch.

All in all, Le Wagon has given me the tools to make a living as a developer, which is more than any other program has ever done for me.

After graduating from an IT Engineer school and a Business school, I worked for 7 years in a management consulting firm in Paris. My job was to manage IT projects in the main companies of Transportation and Energy sectors. 

After that, I decided to focus my career back to my technical skills and to become a web developer ! My wish was to work on the "other side" of the IT projects, and be part of the technical team that really designs and builds the applications. To this end, I followed the FullStack track at Le Wagon coding bootcamp in Paris between October and December 2019. I really enjoyed Le Wagon bootcamp. The lectures and tutorial classes are very well organized. The teachers and teaching assistants are always willing to help and to get all students to give the best of themselves. I really learned a lot during those 9 weeks, and also met great people !

My wish is now to join a promising tech start-up as a back-end or full stack developer and to work on a product I believe in. Ideally, this start-up will be a fast-growing company dealing with great technical challenges and have a strong company culture. 

I spent my last summer at Le Wagon coding Bootcamp in Chengdu. It was an intensive and transformative 9 weeks that unlock my potential in programming. Throughout the Bootcamp, I paired up with fellow classmates to solve coding challenges every day and build our own application prototype starting from absolutely zero prior knowledge on web development. It was an amazing journey when I am looking back to have accomplished so much in a short 9 weeks.

 

A unique module at the Chengdu campus was the experience of designing our WeChat mini-program. WeChat mini-program has gained popularity since it launched and has allowed programmers to realize their startup ideas reaping the benefit from the prevalence of WeChat in China. The WeChat mini-program module includes basic knowledge on wxml and wxss, the use of WeChat developer tool, as well as the logistics of setting up domain and cloud storage space in China. At the end of the Bootcamp, all our fellow classmates decided to build a mini-program for our final projects and it was a great success.

 

I was an MBA student prior to joining the Bootcamp, and I aimed to create my startup one day. The experience at Le Wagon definitely helps me achieve my goal. The Bootcamp has helped me understand the technical parts so that I can communicate with other programming professionals without any language barriers. I have also accumulated some project management experience through cooperating with my teammates to create our own application in a tight timeframe. All of these were achieved through the help and patience of teachers at the Chengdu campus. A big thanks to them!

After graduating from business school, I wanted to learn how to code. I followed the wagon bootcamp at the end of 2019. I never thought I would learn so much in 9 weeks and live such a rewarding experience. The pedagogy is excellent and the team of the wagon very welcoming. This experience was beneficial, and we learnt in the best conditions. The team brought the class together with success. I now have all the keys to code a website and continue learning other languages.  Thanks to these skills and the network of the wagon, I know that I will now be able to find a job as a web developer. I highly recommend this training!

Having just finished my second year at the University of Virginia, I had to choose a major. For the past 2 years I took multiples classes in a lot of areas such as economics, math, psychology. However none of them interested me enough to declare my major in any of these fields. I felt like I needed more time to decide so I took a sabbatical year to discover new domains. A domain that intrigued me a lot was coding. So I asked around me if anyone new something about coding. A friend of mine just finished Le Wagon in London and could not be more happy so I decided to try it for myself in Paris , it is only 9 weeks why not ?

 

During those 9 weeks I felt a lot of stuff. I started to feel lost not knowing anything, anyone. After a few days, confused in how I was going to learn that many things in just 63 days. A week later surprised, I was actually learning and assimilating all the knowledge I was struggling with for 15 days. At the end of the batch, I felt relieved, thankful and excited. Relieved because I had finished the training, thankful because it was amazing and excited because it opened so many opportunities for my future. I learnt HTML CSS JS and Ruby on rails whilst working with a team in a safe environment, again in only 9 weeks.

 

I have only one thing to say to Le Wagon : Thank you for everything you have done for us.  

 

 

Engaged in M&A and investment banking activities since 1984, I launched Equitix in 2019, a fintech company dedicated to Private Equity fundraising. The aim is to raise private equity capital for small French companies, quicker and cheaper.
I first joined Le Wagon in oct 2019, completed the 9 weeks webdev bootcamp (Paris Batch #321), and it was fun and intense, thanks to Le Wagon’s very well organized structure and the help of my coding mates.
Besides HTML, JS, CSS, Ruby Rails, SQL..., with Le Wagon I discovered new solutions for Equitix business model, and decided to rethink its UX patterns.
The quality of the teachings and management at Le Wagon, made me sign for the next 9 weeks Data Science bootcamp that starts in April 2020, with the aim to better understand how to integer data management, ML and AI tools in Equitix DNA.Antoine Fillet, 63 - CEO Equitix 
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Before joining Le Wagon, I worked in the music industry as an audio engineer in Los Angeles. I spent most of my time in a recording studio, working with different types of artists. Though I had fulfilled a goal that I was working towards for many years, it was apparent that I was ready to apply my creativity in a different way. On my search for my next calling, I came upon coding. Just by making a simple HTML page with a bit of CSS, I knew how much power lie within coding. I knew it was something I had to take seriously.   I began looking into coding bootcamps. Being from the states, the coding bootcamp market was quite saturated and dense. It’s tuition price tag was no joke. I began looking abroad and Le Wagon came up as the top school. They had a location in my favorite city, Barcelona. It was also half the cost of the top bootcamps in the states. I decided it was a good chance to gain a skill in a beautiful city. Now, 9 intensive weeks, two finished and shipped products later, I can confirm that it is a truly life changing experience. Joining Le Wagon is like being welcomed into a family. It is established on day one that once you’re in, it is the culture to achieve together. It made being in a foreign city, where I don’t speak the language, feel more like home.   The most valuable thing I gained from going through Le Wagon is being able to work alongside a team. Completing a project from nothing to a shipped product in two weeks with just 4 team member is intense. It almost seemed impossible. But at some point, I just learned to trust my team members and the process of the bootcamp. That experience of compromise and negotiation when working with people from all different backgrounds is what gave me confidence when applying for jobs.

J’ai choisi de faire la formation du Wagon puisque je voulais me reconvertir professionnellement. Je viens tout juste de terminer le batch 325 à Bordeaux. J’ai découvert cette formation grâce à un ami qui est aussi un alumni du Wagon. La formation est intense mais les professeurs sont très pédagogues et bienveillants ce qui permet de rester motivé même si l’on débute dans la programmation web. À la fin de ces 9 semaines nous étions tous fiers de notre progression ! Je recommande Le Wagon à toutes les personnes curieuses et persévérantes.

Before attending Le Wagon bootcamp, I was managing a team within an Investment Bank. I have an engineer background and have always been interested in tech. When I decided to leave the bank, I started my new activities by Le Wagon 2-month Web dev bootcamp. My goal was to understand the architecture of the largest Web apps and to learn the basics of coding.
Le Wagon has very high standards in terms of quality of the courses, availability of the teachers, and community building. They have iterated the bootcamp many times now and the format is really optimised. Plus people there are nice, competent and available.
Le Wagon will enable me to be part of more innovative projects in the tech industry.

我在去年七月加入了Le Wagon成都9个星期的bootcamp，当时我离大学本科毕业还有一年，急于寻找投行以及金融业的实习，但是害怕不会成功于是就报名了沃耕想要充实一下自己的hard skill。我了解到沃耕首先是在伦敦和欧洲，后来偶然发现中国大陆也有，机缘巧合去了成都。现在想起来那九个礼拜像是一眨眼过的飞快，在开头的三个星期学完了cs大学生第一年学的内容，我的整个大脑的信息更新从来没有这么快过，以致于九个礼拜里狂吃都瘦了七八斤，那九个礼拜是我人生到现在，成长速度最快的一段时间。最重要的是，在吸收大量信息的同时，有超级无敌耐心和聪明的助教和老师陪伴左右，有任何问题他们都会引导你去解决，而不是直接告诉你答案，他们会让你意识到很多看似困难的思维过程我们只是需要一些引导，一切都会变得很敞亮。不得不说我非常的累，但是无比的快乐。我在成都的batch里只有十一个人，所以享有的教育资源是相对于上海更有优势的，因为我们每天都有一个manager， 一个老师再加上一个tutor的陪伴左右，从早上九点到有时候晚上九点的live code，我会开始质疑自己的毅力，但是坚持下来的每一天我都会庆幸自己的这个决定。

以前一直认为编程是一个迷，以为编程对自己来说可能难度会比较大，事实上它是一种全新的思维方式，我开始对后端编程（Ruby和Python类似的后端编程语言）展现出来非常大的兴趣，以致于改变了我对未来职业的规划。原本我打算读关于金融工程或者数据方向的研究生，但是也因为自己本科是经济和金融并没有一些编程基础而犹豫不决，仅仅一两年的金融课程是否能让我在未来职场中胜出。但是在沃耕度过了九个礼拜以后我完全消除了这种顾虑，我和一些cs本科毕业生或许只差了一些算法课程，通过两个礼拜编写我们自己的软件事实上我或许还有更多了实际经验。在训练营中间以及将尽之际，manager Allen和我们每个学员进行了非常仔细的沟通，希望我们提出意见以及是否有他能为我们做更多的地方。我大胆地提出了我关于我研究生方向上的一些疑问，谁能想得到Allen以前竟然是加州大学伯克利数据科学研究生项目的招生官，于是他就给了我很多有用的意见，我在参加项目之前的一些疑惑，不确定已经完全消除了，我从来没有觉得人生的方向这样的确定和明朗过。

对我个人成长方面来讲，在参加沃耕之前我是一个不爱说话并且对公共场合演讲相对胆怯的一个人，但是沃耕让我勇敢的踏出了那一步，因为每天我们都会有buddy在一起coding，并且在最后两个project week我们几乎会和组员一起度过日夜，需要随时随地的交流沟通合作。每周好几天我们都会在晚上livecode结束后一起聚餐have fun，it is the kind of bond I have never felt before, and sometimes i really wish time could bring me back. Such a fantastic experience, I hope I can do it all over again x.