Le Wagon

Right after my studies, I decided to join Le Wagon thanks to a training I did in San Francisco that got me interested in learning how to code.
Honestly, I did not expect that I would love it that much !

My goal was simple, I knew that our studies were missing an important thing. We were taught to launch projects, to run a company, to do marketing etc but nothing on the importance of the web and applications. Which company does not have a website, wether it is to introduce its activity or to interact with its users? For me, it was not possible to stop my studies there.

It was 2 months where you learn many complex principles but with a very clear method. I was tough at times but after a while you get used to it and the logic falls into place.

The teaching method is just perfect. A teacher introduces the important concepts, followed by hands-on exercices to practice with teaching assistants to help you out and a livecode at the end of the day. At the end of the 2 months, you have to create a real web app from scratch ! In the end, you get all the tools needed to succeed.

However, it doesn't stop here. And to be honest, the most difficult part is after the training when you can feel lonely when facing problems by yourself without teachers around you. Le Wagon has well understood this and provides a real and strong community, with a lot of mutual help thanks to a super active Slack and coworking spaces. 
Thanks to all of that, I could live my "post-bootcamp" life up to my expectations. Because as developers, we never stop learning.

Today, I am a freelance Fullstack developer and I launched a web agency on the side where work on the Back-end side. And as the web has no boundaries, I have been living abroad in different places across Europe and Asia for more than a year and I keep learning with online tracks such as React and vue.js.

Having read the reviews of former alumnis, I got exactly what I was expecting: my intention was to get enough tools to draft an idea, and then being able to interact efficienltly with developers the day I would launch my own projects. While I spent the first weeks doubting I could ever draft an app, the project week proved me wrong, and with the help of my teammates, class mates, and the community of le Wagon's alumnis, I am now confident I can do it! The methodology is impressively well done and well thought. The rythm (intense, without being overwhelming), the energy, the team, without forgetting the location, made that experience fit my high expectations, and I would definitely recommend anyone to choose le Wagon, and especially Le Wagon Rio, what a blast!

My name is Marcus and I have an economics/finance background. 

After working in the financial market in Rio (my hometown) and in a global consulting firm both in Brazil and Australia, I decided it was time for a change - the idea of starting my own business to help solving one of Brazil’s many problems simply got stuck in my head. I quit my job in Australia and came back to Rio to start putting the plan to motion. 

Several months passed by and I was struggling to decide which idea to pursue. I was also not able to find a friend to be my technical cofounder. Then, a couple of friends suggested me to study at Le Wagon, as it would give me the basic skills to work on my mvp and meet people some amazing people. Sounded good, so I jumped in. 

The bootcamp was really good and I was gladly surprised with the amount of stuff I learned in such a short period of time. I also did meet a lot of interesting and fun people. :)

Now I just started my own project (www.vagazap.com), a web app to help workers connect with companies with available jobs in a practical way. I would strongly recommend Le Wagon! :)

I enrolled at Le Wagon as part of my last year at HEC, in Entrepreneurship Major, where I wanted to acquire key technical skills and develop my product knowledge, two essential topics in order to launch a company and that are not really covered in business School.

Le Wagon curriculum is extremely well constructed and interesting. Each day, you follow a new lesson before practicing with another student through exercices. The day ends with a "debrief" group. The days follow each other quickly, each focusing on a specific technical subject.

It is a real pleasure (and a achievement!) to keep such a learning curve throughout the 9 weeks, in an incredible atmosphere of exchanges and mutual help.

Since the end of the Wagon, I try to continue this learning through MOOCs or freelance work missions and intend to join a startup to become a product manager soon

I wanted to learn how to code for a few years before I joined Le Wagon. This bootcamp was one of the best choices in my life. Coding is more than just being able to create a webpage and post it. It is a new way to think and imagine things in a broader way. Thanks to these new skills I'm now able to build and try any idea I got. Thanks again Le Wagon Montreal, it was a wonderful venture.

Le wagon is an impressive experience for people like me who wants to learn to code ; in less than 3 months, we learn all what is necessary to well understand front-end, back-end and database issues. It's a very efficient way of learning with both theory and practise through exercices and usecases. All of them are also available online (for life for the alumni !). Le Wagon has skyhit all my targets and represents an essential asset in my everyday job as a tech entrepreneur and freelance consultant in digital transformation. I highly recommend the journey, it will change your professionnal life !

After graduating from Law School, I joined a Business School because I was more and more interested in entrepreneurship. After graduating from Business School, I wanted to launch two web projects but I did not have enough technical skills. That's why I joined Le Wagon Paris : learning to code was a way to become autonomous, allowing me to create the first versions of the products I had in mind. At the beginning, I just saw Le Wagon as a step to achieve my goals. But it turned out to be much more than that!! I did launch my two projects but I also loved Le Wagon's experience so much that I am now a Teacher Assistant at Le Wagon Paris. Right now, I could not ask for a better job than teaching and working on my personal projects. Thank you so much to Le Wagon's team for this life-changing experience!!

If you want to learn how to code in only nine weeks while living in one of the coolest cities in the world and also get to know some of the most intelligent and fun people I have ever met, Le Wagon in Melbourne is the perfect place for you. I had an amazing experience exploring coding for the first time in my life and this team and community is the best support you can get! 

Would definitely recommend this to anyone who wants to get into coding!

I consider myself a creative person and I am a hard-worker energy engineer who wants a zero carbon future. I have spent the last 6 years applying innovation to sustainable energy and I came to the point where I realised my skills were not enough, they were not future-proof. On the one hand I was talking how the digital world was disrupting energy and I was selling this, however I had not idea how tech was actually achieving this disruption. On the other hand I have always had many ideas and I could not transform them in anything else but boring power points. I knew I needed to learn to code. A friend recommended Le Wagon. I spent weeks reading about Bootcamps, benefits, disadvantages, and I was surprised how many good reviews Le Wagon had, to be honest I was even a bit skeptical. And here I am writing my review… I am truly grateful for how much I learn in these 9 weeks, I was afraid of that black window called the Terminal which I had never used in my life, and today I can use 4 of those at the same time. I lead a team of 3 developers using Agile methodology, and I am really proud to say I am a tech energy engineer, I can speak the language and understand the challenges (APIs, data structures, TDD, etc.). Le Wagon truly changed my life for the better, I can prototype my very own ideas and is such a powerful skill. The bootcamp teaches you all what you need to keep learning. Their methodology, support, environment and good vibes makes it unique. No need to hesitate, just take the jump, it is worth it.

I attended the LW coding bootcamp (batch #209 in Tel-Aviv) and can honestly say that deciding to do LW was the best decision I made in 2018. If you're interested in problem solving or are a very visual person like myself, you'll love this coding bootcamp. It provides both in abundance. My main reason for doing the bootcamp and giving up my job was because I wanted more of a hard skill to complement my soft-skills. 

I am very happy that I did in Tel-Aviv. The people running the show there are fantastic. They really cared about our development and put in a lot of extra efforts to make us get the most out of it. In addition, the country is worth visiting, which you'll have time for during the weekends. Overall, I would highly recommend what I did to anyone else (at least if you're doing it for the right reasons -> interest, like doing something technical, and willing to solve problems)

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.