Le Wagon

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!

I've been researching the market, before joining LeWagon. A lot of shiny advertisement. Some were really too good to be true, while LeWagon, as I can see now, has been hugely underadvertised.

Guys have developed a whole workflow and set of products to help in the learning process, as well as to maintain highest level of education, whithin shortest possible time. The experience has been accumulated for years and avilable to every branch - travelling teachers (each expert with practice in their field), TAs both local and travelling, great online community (real one, alive and kicking).

It was worth every penny.

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!

Le Wagon truly changed my life. I was finishing my studies and hadn't any idea what to do next. One month after finishing Le Wagon, I was hired as front-end developer at IBM Watson. Le Wagon gave me the opportunity to understand and create products from A to Z. I am now creating a debate plateform: https://logora.fr/ which couldn't have been without the amazing bootcamp offered. 

I followed the wagon right after my Business School. Thanks to le wagon's pedagogy, I learnt fast how to code and get the most valued skills in the job market today.

More than hard skills, I also learnt a new way to learn and build products. I met great people there and I'm still using this network today, composed by amazing wagoners.

Now, I'm a product manager and even if I'm not a web developer, I do recommend it to any curious person.

In 2019, learning to code is accessible to anyone and no longer reserved for men graduated from engineering schools, Le Wagon offers to anyone this opportunity, it's up to you to seize it ;)

I decided to learn coding primarily because I was paying coders to code my own projects and honestly I had little to no idea what they were doing, what was taking them so long and why I was paying them SO MUCH!

After a few years of employing them I figured I needed to learn a lot more or else I'd probably spend a lifetime having other people code my visions. So I signed up for the bootcamp to learn how to code but also to learn how to manage coders I contracted.

It was an amazing experience from start to finish! You were completely immersed in coding and Le Wagon makes you feel like your being welcomed into a family across the globe. A family of coders of course. They allowed you to move at your own pace. If you were coding for the first time they made sure you kept up with the pace of the class and if you caught on quick they ensured you never ran out of new material and challenges for you to work on. They pretty much gave you the opportunity to learn whatever you wanted. It was an endless learning experience in the class room and the possibilities simply expanded when you stepped into the city of Barcelona.

I choose Barcelona because it is one of the best places to drink wine in the world, I have always been intrigued by Spanish culture and rumor has it Barcelona is a great place to party. The city easily delivered all that and more the entire 9 weeks I was there. And most importantly it fosters an environment for creativity and freedom of self expression. It reigns high as my favorite place in the world right now.

My favorite part of the curriculum was that this coding class had an entrepreneurial twist to it. So in addition to the technical skills to code I took information away on how to start a business and go about launching a product. That was one of the most valuable things I learned.

The best part of the entire course was the people I got to be around and work with. So my advice to anyone considering it is don't hesitate, take on adversity head first, find every new experience you can and live in it to the fullest, it's 9 weeks that will last you a lifetime get everything you can from it. Oh and try a Catalonia Tempranillo while you're at it! 

Before Le Wagon, I spent 4 years working as a Graphic Designer / Art Director in New York / Philadelphia but have consistently felt dissatisfied with the day-to-day. A career in front-end web development seemed like a logical expansion of my skill set, so last fall I began researching bootcamps. I quickly realized that a full stack program would leave me with the most options afterwards and allow me to explore all aspects of web development without keeping me in the “designer” box.

I chose Le Wagon for a few reasons:

1. Le Wagon is a fraction of the cost of most U.S. programs but offers the same education, value, and outcome.
2. The application process was approachable and unpretentious. The staff seemed interested in getting to know me personally and selecting individuals who would fit the culture.
3. It’s tailored to beginners. Most people have no coding experience going into it.
4. It’s highly rated and reviewed by alumni which is telling not just for the quality of education but also the culture.
5. I knew if I wanted to go to a full-time bootcamp I would have to leave Philly for a few months so I would be lying if I said the opportunity to travel was not a huge part of why I chose Le Wagon Barcelona.

And thank god I did because it was a great experience and an ideal learning environment. I liked that the first few weeks are dedicated to learning and truly understanding Ruby, that the work was both individual and collaborative (and extremely hands on), the exercises were challenging but actually so fun, the teachers and TAs were encouraging, helpful and patient, the community was strong and diverse in terms of professional background and interests, and I left with the experience, motivation and toolkit to build web applications from the ground up.

Le Wagon was exactly the experience I was looking for and I’m extremely grateful to have had it! Would definitely recommend!