Le Wagon

After a masters degree in marketing and an unsucessful search for a job I decided to join le wagon coding bootcamp, with no previous knowledge of programming.

As I thought I was joining a school I quickly discovered that I actually joined a family. The working environement their is amazing, the whole team is dedicated to help you learn and discover a new world and an amazing way to change your life. The education program in particularly well designed and the resources are impressive, and still accessible, with other courses for those who want to go further, after the bootcamp.

After only one mont I found a job through the alumni network and I am now UX/UI designer and incredibly happy with everything that Le Wagon brought me !

Big thanks to all the team members and to all my fellow students !

Having worked on the business side for numerous start-ups in Germany and overseas, I decided it was time to gain a deeper understanding of my tech counterparts. That's why I decided to join LeWagon in Milan to embark on my FullStack journey. 

I believe LeWagon and especially the team in Milan is a great institution. With just the right amount of guidance, the 9 week program will truly enable you to learn how to code from scratch.

Having only had a very basic understanding of SQL, I started the prep courses this summer (LeWagon uses codeacademy as a prep) and was quite overwhelmed by the amount of content. Once we started the courses on the ground, however, the coaches did a recap of the contents and quickly alleviated any fears. Patience and good humor were an ideal recipe for 9 weeks of hard work. By the second week, I then started dreaming about arrays and curly brackets - that's how much LeWagon will consume your brain capacity. The last three weeks then perfectly tied all the learned content together. Firstly, by creating an AirBnB clone. Then for the last two weeks, we worked on our own project. This was certainly the most rewarding part of the entire bootcamp. Seeing how everything ties together and how we're able to create our own web application after only 7 weeks of training was amazing to see. 

Overall - great bootcamp. Can highly recommend! 

PS: Inquire about the size of the batch you're joining. My batch had a student teacher ratio of 3:1 which was super low and definitely pushed the learning. 

During the summer of my first and second year as a business student, I decided to join  batch 163 in Bali.

My bar was set very high but what I learned in terms of technical skills but also about myself out-passed all my expectations. I wanted to acquire a technical background in addition to my business studies. Le Wagon gave me this opportunity and I’ve been truly impressed by the quality of the teachers and the lessons. Today, I feel confident enough to work as a developer in a tech company but moreover, I keep learning about tech and coding because I know my basics, I have an idea of the big scheme of things and I know where to look for information and how to process it. That’s what Le Wagon taught me during those 2 months.

I’ve been welcomed by an amazing team of people dedicated to provide a unique experience to the students. I feel empowered today by the fact that I’m backed by a whole community of people willing to help each other but also because I know that my error messages won’t remain unsolved for too long thank to the teacher and TAs still helping me out when I need it.

All in all, although I’m always skeptical when I read that kind of statement, my experience at Le Wagon has definitely been a life-changing experience. My range of opportunities has significantly widened and I couldn’t recommend it enough to someone aiming to do so.

I couldn’t imagine how my time at Le Wagon would be a great learning and human experience. I had a lot of good surprises during the bootcamp and after.

Even if you want to start your own project or become a junior developer in a team or as a freelance you’ll find at Le Wagon some competent people who really help you to achieve your goals.

I spent the toughest 9 weeks of my life but it worth it. Even if you don’t know anything about coding or programming and especially if you’ve never code any line in your life Le Wagon is a bootcamp for you. You’ll find a really good working atmosphere, mutual assistance between students and teachers who are helping you at anytime and with a pedagogic way.

You’ll discover a new world and learn some good working habits.

After Le Wagon I was glad to see how I’m still connected with the community. I visited Lisbon one month ago and I could find some people from Le Wagon Lisbon to talk and exchange with. You’ll find kindness in students, teachers and alumnis.

If you want to start a new tech career or start a new digital project I can only recommend this coding bootcamp.

At some point in 2017, I decided I want to become a developer. That was the easy part, the "what". The hard part was yet to come: "how"? With my goal in sight, I spent hours upon hours googling, trying out some free online courses and asking friends how they became developers (without realising, I had already learnt the first fundamental lesson for developers: how to google!). After some consideration, I went out on a limb and quit my job. 

Luckily, my girlfriend had taken part in one of Le Wagon's free 1-day courses and told me how incredibly challenging and rewarding it was. Great! I had my first real lead and, guess what, I googled them. All of it looked really promising and I was ready to go. It was when I saw the price that I had second thoughts. The main thought swirling in my mind was whether Le Wagon was just really good at marketing (they are) and just didn't have enough substance (boy was I wrong). "Would the teachers really care about the progress I made?", "Will I find it rewarding and challenging?" and "Will it really help me?". I soon realised there was only one way to find out and no amount of googling would help me anymore. Geronimo!

It turns out, the answer to all three questions was a definite YES. From day one, the teachers were really helpful and showed such passion for teaching. Was it challenging? Wow, I am not sure if I have ever had a more challenging time in my life, but it paled in comparison to what I learned (and when you complete a task without errors, it is immensely rewarding - thanks rubocop! Plus, it helped me immensely, rocket-propelling my desire to become a developer to heights I couldn't have hoped for before. 

And the best of it was that it didn't feel like a bootcamp or school. Everyone was in it together and we all helped each other out, whether student or teacher. So if you are having any second thoughts, go try out one of their 1-day courses. There is a reason they do them. And if you like what you see, I highly recommend to sign up and just join the Le Wagon community. 

I am an undergraduate Computer Engineering student from Turkey. Since I started my degree, coding wasn’t something interesting for me. I was learning too slowly at university and I didn't have enough skills to put my ideas into action. I needed a better way to learn. After searching for something different I found Le Wagon. At first, I was a bit reluctant to take the course because I didn't think that I was able to learn that much thing in such a short amount of time like 9 weeks. Then I decided to give myself a chance and I can say that it was one of my best decision. I recently completed Le Wagon's batch 168 in Montreal and I enjoyed every second of my experience.

Le Wagon doesn’t give you only coding skills. It offers you the motivation to learn coding from the beginning in 9 weeks. What is more important of what languages the bootcamp teaches is, the camp gives you the resources, the structure, the capability of problem-solving. The camp also encourages you to network with as many people as you can. I met great people coming from different corners of the world and with very different backgrounds. All of my classmates were highly motivated and focused on a common goal of learning to code.

The camp teaches you about the code in a very easy and effective way. You have enough time to practice what you learn. You are surrounded by amazing teachers. They were always very friendly and helpful from the first to the last day. I am proud of what we built in the last 10 days of the bootcamp. We put it all together with my small group, to build a web app from an idea. Le Wagon also increased my efficiency and productivity when working in a group.

After nine weeks I finished the boot camp with the energy, ideas, relationships, a great network, and skills to take my ideas to the next level. I am recommending Le Wagon without hesitation. Huge thanks to all the amazing teachers and friends who taught me so much!

Le Wagon was one of the best experiences I’ve ever had. I had graduated university in May 2018 with a business degree, but had already started teaching myself coding. I knew in order to get hired I had to get a little more formal training. My research brought me to Le Wagon, it was the most reasonably priced, highest rated, and wasn’t too long. I decided on Le Wagon, Montreal, seeing as I could speak French and had never really been to that part of Canada.

The program itself is very intense. Do not think that this will be an easy certification, it isn’t. By the end you will have suffered countless headaches, lost hope, found it again, stress-ate, stress-napped, but in the end it is so worth it. You get what you put into it, so if you really prepare, pay attention and work on challenges all day and at home, you will succeed and have easily enough skills to find work afterwards. You can just as easily check-out and sleep for most of the days, while the teachers are there to help you achieve, they aren’t your parents.

I came into the program with a little coding knowledge but not much so I struggled the first couple weeks to catch up. The teachers are your best weapon but really try to figure stuff out on your own, often times your mistake is really small or you haven’t read the instructions to the challenge thoroughly (Also stay on their good side, you’ll be abusing them during project week). I never would have thought that in a short time I would be demoing a product I had built but Le Wagon makes you feel prepared.

What makes this boot-camp worth it comparatively is the confidence that it gives you. I can say from experience that I have been offered jobs just because I am not afraid to look up an answer and teach myself, an invaluable skill this program forces on you. Also, the project and Airbnb clone are no joke, they are serious things that will set your resume apart from other applicants.

I really cannot recommend Le Wagon enough. It was a fantastic learning experience, and the curriculum is very well-balanced. I have been applying to jobs since completing Le Wagon, and lots of the roles I have looked at require experience in the topics we covered at Le Wagon, which is great. It feels like Le Wagon looked at the kinds of jobs that alumni might apply to and ensured that they covered those complementary skills. I think Le Wagon’s system of exercises and tests is incredibly productive, and really encourages students to think like developers. We learn to not be afraid of the terminal, and how to conduct intelligent Google searches so we can think creatively and solve our problems independently. We also learn how to persist in the face of difficulty and repeated failures, which make the reward of solving a problem even greater.

Learning aside, being at Le Wagon is also insanely fun. I often found myself spending 12-hour days at Le Wagon, and not resenting it in the slightest. The staff are all so friendly and welcoming, and because almost all of them are Le Wagon alumni themselves, they understand perfectly the struggles students go through. They are incredibly kind and supportive, and make sure that we learn the importance of taking breaks and also looking after ourselves mentally and physically over the course of the bootcamp. Friday nights are always fun, and it is a very bonding experience. Some of the people I met at Le Wagon will be friends for life, students and teachers alike. It is intense, and crazy, and the best investment I have made in a very long time.

I’m an entrepreneur and a mother of 2 young kids. My friends consider me to be somewhat of a geek, i.e., I love all things tech, which is not very trendy among the women of my generation (although, I’m the least geek of geeks). It’s funny how being an entrepreneur and being a parent have one important thing in common that radically changes one’s life: You are out of control, and you find yourself out of your comfort zone constantly.

Le Wagon radically changed my life in 2 different ways.

The first one is that I co-launch the bootcamp in Montreal with my brother Antoine. It was a huge step in entrepreneurship, but I was so excited and honored to bring the world's highest-rated bootcamp to my city. Driven by my passion about the product and its community, we took our place in the lively Montreal tech ecosystem, built a great team, and, so far, have offered this amazing life-changing experience to over 120 students.

The second way it changed my life is that I took the full-stack program myself and fulfilled a long-standing ambition: learn to code. I spent 2 incredible months studying at a very fast pace in a stimulating and very (very) challenging environment (as my background was not technical at all). But thanks to some key ingredients this experience was one of the best of my life. Here they are:

• **CURRICULUM**: The curriculum is excellent and the pedagogy is focused on practicality -> at the end of each day we master key concepts and are ready to grab new ones the next day.

• **ONLINE PLATFORM**: The pedagogical platform is a really powerful tool -> it gives 24-hour lifetime access to all the lectures, challenge material, and more. A great asset that we could rely on during and after bootcamp.

• **GREAT PEOPLE**: The passionate teachers who were 100% dedicated to us and supported us through our learning experience, and the great people around me that made for the perfect learning environment.

• **DETERMINATION & TRUST**: And last, but not least, my determination and the absolute trust I had in my capacity to succeed (it’s hard but I can do it) and the trust in the program & the team (they are the best and they know where we’re heading too).

My only regret is not having done it earlier

Graduated from a business school and after specializing myself in asset management during a few years in the most largest banks, I decided to learn code for several reasons.

I saw that the industry of finance and the job market were radically changing and I wanted to be an actor of this paradigm shift. I also wanted to acquire concrete skills that will allow me to directly work in smaller and disruptive companies.

Le Wagon brought more than I expected: coding & design skills, start up culture, a network and last but not least it improved my way of learning.

Today I am now working as a product manager for a start up that builds a platform where companies can automate and design conversations with their customers through AI.