Le Wagon

I joined batch #220 of Le Wagon in January 2019. I worked for already 10 years in digital marketing and ecommerce
as Digital Director in retail industry but also in services (transportation and tourism) and in a start up as General Manager.
I began to work when the first iphone was launched. All my jobs did not exist when I arrive in companies I worked for. I have always been confronted to some technical issues (mainly related to code) that I was not really aware of.
Le Wagon is a unique occasion to get a full understanding of a 360 digital strategy when you come from business.
It is also sometimes the occasion to discover new possibilities in your career.
It has truly brought me a new world of possibles.
I strongly recommend this experience to anybody interested in code/ digital business/ entrepreneurship.
9 weeks is too short!

At the end of Law School and after various experiences in law firms and legal departments, I felt very frustrated to only glimpse the possibilities offered by tech solutions, but being unable to neither develop them nor even understand exactly who to talk to or what was feasible.
I attended Le Wagon bootcamp hoping that it would give me the keys to understanding the world of development, useful in the future profession of lawyer in which I was projecting myself.
Not only was I absolutely not disappointed, but it brought me much more than that: by the quality of the speakers, the richness of the courses, the completeness of the course offered to us and the diversity of the people I met, it is actually my whole perspectives that changed.
After Le Wagon, I joined Seraphin.legal, a French company of the Legal Tech ecosystem: at the crossroads of law and code, we design and develop tech solutions for legal professionals.

I have always tried to find a discipline that combines the part of me that is highly creative and the other part that craves for structure. Coding and in particular web designing is exactly that. Being at a professional standstill where I was only partly satisfied by my work (event manager) and learning about Blockchain and it’s (dire) need to become more accessible, it became logical for me to start a bootcamp to learn to code. Le Wagon quickly became the obvious choice for 3 main reasons: it’s been ranked in the top-three coding bootcamps for several years; the massive international community they foster through events and Slack; and the fact that every single person I met having been through le Wagon adored it. 
Le Wagon met all my expectations. The 9-week bootcamp is a tornado. You get completely sucked in from the start. It’s a wonder to get to learn so much so fast, to get good coding reflexes, meet a lot of people and quickly learn to work together. 
Since le Wagon, I started working for a blockchain association and have really wanted to learn more. 

"I came to Le Wagon looking to change direction from a career in teaching. Whilst I loved my previous job I was searching for a means of increasing my potential to create change; in short I wanted the empowerment of having a hard skill that would allow me to build something scalable. I was not sure whether I wanted to continue to work in education after the course, but I was confident that Le Wagon would open my eyes to opportunities in tech, allowing me to make an informed decision on the direction to take with my new skills.
I was not disappointed. Throughout the course we were not only equipped with the technical skills needed to become a web developer (with lessons delivered in a logical, clear and structured way), but our learning was enriched by a busy program of talks, lectures and events which aimed to educate us about the inner workings of the world of tech and how to get ahead in it. This, above all, I found extremely helpful as a total newbie to the sphere. I feel it gave me a great  head start when searching for jobs and securing my first role after completing the course
"Another great thing about the course was the fun, social element. I feel that I have built a network of friends and fellow web developers who will be there to support my career for the long run. The benefits of Le Wagon don't end at the end of the course- the learning continues through the amazing online platform, with reams of helpful information, tutorials and cheat sheets and loads of helpful people ready to answer your questions on anything, be they technical or professional. I couldn't recommend Le Wagon enoug

As an entrepreneur with no technical background, joining Le Wagon in Barcelona was one of the best decisions I could have made. The program is very intense, but I never imagined I could learn and create so much in such a short time.

During the first weeks of the bootcamp, we focus on learning the ruby language and understand the basis of programming. We then dive into front-end coding (HTML, CSS and JavaScript) and get all the tools to build great looking designs. Finally, we learn how to use Rails. Rails is an amazing framework that uses the Ruby language to allow you to build powerful and scalable web app in no time!

One of the highlights of the bootcamp is the final project where you get to pitch an idea, get a team, and actually code and deploy a real app from A to Z. In my team, each of us were coming from very different background and countries (Argentina, Bulgaria, Spain and Syria) and we got to learn a lot from working together.

I think one particularity that Le Wagon has over other bootcamps is its focus on conveying an entrepreneurial mindset. In Barcelona, aside of coding, we learn about agile methodology and how to deliver great and effective user experience.

To sum up: if you want to switch career and become an innovative full-stack developer, or if you are an entrepreneur who wants to speak the language of developers and scale your business, don’t think twice. It’s a transformational journey and a true investment for your future.

I attended the first Le Wagon batch in Lausanne in 2019. Before Le Wagon, coding seemed impossible for me and I could not imagine that it would be that fun to learn. Le Wagon has a great teaching format where practice is the success key. You quickly see your progress and it keeps you motivated throughout the intensive 9-week bootcamp. The cherry on the top was to see how much I could achieve during my final project. With my coding buddy, we created an entire website where you shop recipes instead of ingredients. Being able to code this website from the database schema to the fancy Javascript effect was really rewarding and has impressed many of my friends!

These nine weeks were an amazing experience.
It’s very impressive how much they manage to teach us in such a short time.
The whole team is passionate about what they do, which makes it really inspiring to work and exchange with them about coding or personal projects.
It was one of the best intellectual and personal experiences I’ve had , and I can’t recommand it enough to anyone who has an interest in coding.
They have made coding accessible and sexy  
Thanks you Le Wagon !!!! 

After working 1 year in a startup as a growth hacker, I realized that I lacked skills in web development to progress in my job. It was difficult to know how to start to learn these skills, so I decided to join Le Wagon, the best web development bootcamp.

During 9 weeks, I learned the basics of web development (Ruby, CSS, MySQL ...) with other beginners like me and... It was an amazing and intense experience !

Today, with this new skills, I am better at communicating and managing developers at work. Moreover, I am more independent and productive at work, for my personal project, ect

Coming from a business background, I worked with automization and digitization in mulitple internships. However, what that actually entails was always a blackbox to me. Hence, I wanted to gain an in-depth undrstanding of how coding works and how I could use these skills in a business, be it as an entrepreneur or advisor to companies. I particularly enjoyed that the curriculum is adaptive, meaning that you will always be challenged no matter what level of coding proficiency you have before or throughout the coding camp.

My personal highlights were the demo day and starting to rebuild Airbnb. In the week in which you program your own Airbnb you realize how much you have learnt and how everything, front- and backend are comning together. The demo day is an amazing feeling of taking an abstract idea and building a full-fledged product in two weeks and presenting this to a crowd of >100 people. In these moments you truly realize that LeWagon is worth the time and resources you put in.

Barcelona is a great city and a good combination of beaches, a vibrant startup community and amazing food. The team running the camp is very engaged in helping you succeed in coding but also ensuring that you are bonding with your batch and having a great time in Barcelona.
Think about what you expect to get out of the boot camp and validate your expectations with the team in the interview process.

Coming from a product and entrepreneurial background - I wanted to learn to code to up-skill myself technically so I could both work with engineers more effectively and validate new product ideas quickly. I am someone who needs to understand the core theory behind what I’m working on in order to fully grasp and expand upon it and that’s exactly what the Le Wagon curriculum and program format enabled.

The majority of your days throughout the course are spent on challenges which enables you to practice what you’ve been taught but also instills in you an engineering mindset which is based on a strategizing, executing and testing iteration loop. From my experience, the most important part of learning to code is getting comfortable with failing and the process of learning from that failure which is exactly what the Le Wagon format instills in you.

I would highly recommend the course for anyone who is both looking to transition careers but also open themselves up to a new way of approaching problems.

A 9 week-program is intense but totally worth it. Do not hesitate.

Regarding the program : 

- great content and great platform (kitt) 

- you can access the content after having finished the program --> to keep practicing and learning

- first three weeks are intense but then you get into the rythm

- no need to know how to code before starting the program. The level is more or less even between the students at the end of the 9 weeks

Regarding the people : 

- teachers and staff have different backgrounds which means rich and diverse encounters. They are all accessible, patient and can become good friends

- same thing for the students : diverse backgrounds which is great to broaden your horizons and perspectives on how to do / think things.

Regarding the network : 

- the alumni network is extremely active via slack

- by active I mean : job search / tech awareness / dev tips / ...

I have a strategy consulting background and wanted to study at Le Wagon to acquire tech skills to :

1/ Be autonomous to ship small products / concepts 

2/ Understand what tech people I work with are talking about

==> the program totally matched and surpassed my expectations!