Le Wagon

Hi! My name is Philipp. I studied product and concept-design in Germany which led me to score cool roles as a UX designer and a globe-trotting consultant in Agile frameworks including Scrum and Kanban. Nevertheless, I felt that I needed to understand coding so I could better communicate with developers in my team and sometimes I also wanted to turn my own web ideas and concepts into reality. That’s why I decided to quit my job and join Le Wagon in Bali, and unsurprisingly, the decision paid off right away with a new role as an Advisor for the company Blackboat in Berlin when I returned back home! The Bootcamp was efficient and precise: the Le Wagon teachers and learning platform give you exactly what you need to learn to build a complex web app in a 45 day bootcamp. Even though I worked...

I completed the 9 week Le Wagon bootcamp that started in June 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal.

It totally surpassed my expectations - I learnt far more than I thought I would, I made awesome friends and the alumni community was stronger and more global than I expected (I live in Sydney now and meet up with Le Wagoners here and everyone is super helpful on the alumni Slack channels).

I didn't do the course to change careers - I've been in finance for 10 years and I enjoy my job. I did the course because I wanted to create things and follow through on ideas. I love coding so much now that I am nonetheless contemplating a career change - either way it will be part of my life from here on.

My advice - (1) Ruby and web-apps are probably the best place to start. I was considering a mobile-a...

After a bachelor’s in economics and more than two years in business school, I felt like taking a different route. A faster one, that would accelerate my career. It’s been a long time since I wanted to learn to code and with my plan to run my own business, I believe knowing how to code is a key skill to have.
As I didn’t have any coding background, I knew, to make this work I would have to be 100% focused. Besides being the most inspiring destination, once I was part of it, I found that Bali is made to live the Le Wagon experience. Super intense learning during the day and holiday feeling before and after class. With everything at your fingertips, healthy food, nature, beach, sports, bars, restaurants, party, yoga, spa…
For me bootcamp-styled programs are perfect, fast-paced and tough...

I have learned a lot ! I would recommend the course for anyone that wants to be an web developer, great community , huge network , without a doubt an intense experience ! If you (that are reading the reviews) wants to evolve your skill set as a programmer, don't waist a good opportunity and subscribe to Le Wagon =)

Never have i ever thought I would be possibly to learn coding in such few time.

I have struggled a lot with developers during my entrepreneur journey and I accepted that as something that I should be used to..

So I went to a meetup and I got really interested in learning code and get authonomy to launch a business!!

Wagon delivered everything they said! It was a hard way, lot of study, but now I can say I few comfortable as a full stack web developer

It was a great time of learning for me!

Amazing. Great environment and resources. I think it really change my life!

I liked the teaching methodology of Le Wagon, the teaching dynamics in general was very good and enriching

A pessoa que eu era antes já não é a mesma após essas 9 semanas. E fico muito feliz de ter embarcado nessa jornada. Parabéns a todos pela rica experiência de vida que nos proporcionam! Fica realmente o sentimento de fazer parte de uma comunidade.

Learning a huge skill, taught with extreme competence and with a modern methodology, in such a vivid environment with amazing people is indeed an amazing experience. Specially for me, who came from another city, the program was all-in-one, having an impact on many life areas, such as academic, professional, personal, social and technological. Le Wagon has an extreme potential to be a driving force in the tech world, is headed in the right direction, and will be even more amazing if it keeps listening and acting upon student feedback. Thanks for everything!

The people of Le Wagon and the community that it's built around it. Even though Le Wagon has an amazing value for money, giving us knowledge and a skillset that'll be useful for a lifetime, the diversity between its members is what makes it unique. I would never imagine people with such a diverse background and origins come together for a same goal. What I love the most is the sense of camaraderie, where everyone has gone through the same struggles and are willing to help anytime.

I can recommend blindly Le Wagon to everyone. The teaching method and intensive process make everything possible and, at the end of 9 weeks, it is amazing what we are capable to do! I'm so impressed with my evolution and so grateful to LW :)

Learned a lot in such a short time, was something that I will always remember, at the end of the course it seemed that I had made another college due to the amount of content I learned.

I believe I’ll never see the world as I used to see before. I may consider Le Wagon as a great mark in my lifeline and separate it as being Before Wagon and After Wagon.

My two months at Le Wagon passed in a blink of an eye. Putting aside the outstanding quality of the cursus, it was a great human experience. Meeting amazing people and being supervised by top notch professionals in a highly dynamic environment has made this experience unique. As an investment manager in a fund, it was also the opportunity to have a foothold in the entrepreneur ecosystem and better understand their everyday challenges.

As a CEO of a new born companie in tech, i decided to attend the first batch of Le Wagon to improve my tech skills. 5 years later, it helps me to make better tech decisions on a daily basis, to understand and better work with the developer team. More than just teaching you how to write code, Le Wagon brings you the developer mindset you need to better understand the world today. Plus the community is super powerful. Life changer.

I've wanted to learn coding for 3 or 4 years, so one day I finally decided to quit my job and go for it! I looked trough several bootcamps and Le Wagon got my attention for two main reasons: compared to other trainings it's connected to real business life and it's "only" 9 weeks (I wanted to switch careers rapidly). Now I can say it, it went beyond my expectations. Le Wagon gave me a very operational package (when you end it, you can actually build something functional) and in these "only" 9 weeks I've learnt a lot of tools and languages: Ruby and Rails, SQL, Javascript, SCSS, Github, etc.

Le Wagon is a life changing experience.
After writing a thesis on blockchain and having spent a few years managing Joomla sites, I felt very frustrated that I didn't know how to properly code and understand the nitty-gritty.
That was the impetus behind me applying for the program, and I can only look back and thank myself for it.
Indeed, it's hard to overstate the amount of valuable, ready-to-apply skills you will learn at Le Wagon. The e-learning platform is second to none and as a bonus is accessible for a lifetime, so learning really doesn't stop after the bootcamp ends. The Slack channel is bristling with life and has so many channels to choose from, be it the jobs one, the freelancers one or just to keep in touch with your newfound friends.
Le Wagon wouldn't be what it is witho...

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 w...

Having spent the last 17 years as a qualified management accountant I wanted to do something more creative and interesting towards the end of 2016. I had heard about how software development was experiencing a boom and there weren't enough applicants to fill vacancies. I tried Codecademy and loved it and decided to go to a bootcamp to immerse myself in the field. But there are lots of them out there: which one to choose?

After doing a bit of research online Le Wagon was the one as it was regularly rated as one of the best, not just in the country but the world. After being accepted on the course I did the prep work and the course started in April. I didn't know what to expect and was a bit apprehensive but the staff members soon put me at ease. They really are a great support. Ver...