Le Wagon

I took place in #batch 213, Bordeaux, France @ Le Wagon after finding out about it from a friend who had taken part in winter 2018 Paris program. I will never look back on this experience. It has given me so much confidence, inspired me to love learning... Read More and hard work, especially within a team, and finally to take ownership for my own progress. I entered the batch as perhaps the least likely to fit the stereotype or profile of a web developer or a coder, I was the youngest and I was the only foreigner (half English and Spanish, but thankfully fluent in French!) This did not stop me from putting myself out there, and I managed to pitch a successful project that we created in the last 2 weeks of the 9-week program. My group of 4 developed 'Concierge At Sea', an app to improve clients' experience renting super yachts, and to facilitate an easier working day for the crew managing their guests' needs. I did not expect to make such genuine friends on this course, and the profile of those who I worked alongside surprised me daily as we were shuffled between buddies. The course is structured, empowering and totally worth every penny. I thoroughly recommend anyone sitting on the fence to take the step and go for this!
https://www.lewagon.com/fr/bordeaux

I recently completed the 8 week intensive course in Le Wagon Bali. Intensive really is the key word here as this course will challenge you immensely but do not let that deter you as it is an amazing experience.
It’s not just about the code either. Yes,... Read More I did the course as I wanted to change my career (I used to work in the construction industry), but a reason to choose Le Wagon and Bali goes past that.

During the course, you will learn a lot, and I mean a lot. The first few weeks can be a little overwhelming but after a while, you find your feet, and it all starts to fall into place. You will learn different languages, design, databases and much more in between. Then the last two weeks are dedicated to creating a real-life web app to be hosted live on the web.
This last two weeks is amazing really to see what you and your classmates can build from scratch in a short period of time. You will be very surprised by this as I was.

From the very first week, you are immersed in code with a group of like-minded individuals from various countries, cultures and backgrounds. As most people are not local to the area, you quite quickly become something of a family as you fully immerse yourself in the code and in beautiful Bali lifestyle. You will share in each others joys and frustrations during the next two months and create some incredible memories with friends that will go way beyond the lifetime of the course itself.
By joining Le Wagon you are joining a vast network of Alumni that are scattered across the globe. Going to any new city and it is easy to find someone to connect within the area to meet up with for a coffee and welcome you the area.

The guys that run Le Wagon in Bali are phenomenal. They take care of everything from the moment you arrive so that you as the student can focus fully on learning. They really go the extra mile to make sure that it is an enjoyable experience. They organise so many activities, dinners etc.. that it really makes the experience so amazing.

Overall I am so happy that I took the plunge and joined Le Wagon Bali as it is a time in my life that will live long in the memory for sure. I would encourage anyone thinking about making a similar choice to go for it as you won’t regret it.

Good luck on your code journey and maybe I will speak to you as a Le Wagon alumni soon.

J’ai fait Le Wagon à Bordeaux pour le batch 213, une formation intensive au développement web.
Super formation !
Les 3 premières semaines sont difficiles. Il faut s’accrocher !
Le programme est vraiment bien élaboré, les professeurs sont au top avec beaucoup... Read More d’empathie envers les stagiaires. Ils prennent tout le temps qu’il faut avec chacun de nous jusqu’à ce qu’on comprenne totalement notre code. Les 3 dernières semaines où on code nos sites web en groupe sont les plus cools. C’est hyper grisant de réussir à créer des interfaces et faire fonctionner une plateforme web en si peu de temps.
Avec mon groupe on a codé “Catch me”
https://www.catchmebx.fr
Si vous passez à Bordeaux un de ces jours, ça vous permettra de savoir très rapidement et précisément, avec le moins de clics possible, dans combien de temps arrive votre tram ou bus.
En somme, je recommande vivement Le Wagon ! https://www.lewagon.com/fr
Et en plus on se fait des bons potes pendant ces 2 mois ! ;)
Maintenant je perfectionne mes bases pour prendre de l’assurance afin de trouver un stage dans une agence de développement web.

Before Le Wagon I was working dead end jobs at minimum wage. I always had a passion for computers but I always failed to understand computer programming. Last year I was looking for coding bootcamps to join in Montreal. I found Le Wagon due to their reputation... Read More around the world, which made my decision on joining the bootcamp much easier. Once I started the bootcamp after 2 weeks, I was discouraged because each day I had something new to learn I felt like I couldn't keep up. By the time the fourth week came around I understood more and became confident that I can complete the bootcamp. Overall I'm glad I went through this experience and I would do it over again. Now I have the skills of a Full-Stack Developer to start my new career.

I'm an graphic designer by training, after a few years abroad in a developing country, I decided to enroll at Le Wagon Bootcamp in Paris to get familiar with programming languages and broaden my range of skills.

This experience was even more enriching... Read More than I had imagined. The training is demanding and sometimes tough but I have always been able to rely on the goodwill and expertise of the great teaching staff.

Retrospectively, I am still amazed by the quantity of knowledge that I have gained in 9 weeks. I also built bonds with many students with various backgrounds from my batch and I think it is one of the great strengths of Le Wagon.

Since then, I work as a consultant for various companies and individuals. Not only as a graphic designer but now also as a developer.

People wonder how 9 weeks can change your life, le Wagon is how.

I graduated from Northwestern University, in Chicago last June with a major in neuroscience and have since been determined to become a doctor. However, I believe that the classic path to... Read More medicine lacks a tech aspect that I wanted to settle during my gap year. I was told about Le Wagon, a nine week intensive bootcamp that gives you the necessary skills to create your own projects using the right tools and workflow. In the medical world, it is believed that “computing capability can transcend what a human being could ever do in their lifetime”. Le Wagon teaches you how to teach your computer to learn with the most competent teachers you could hope for.

The different backgrounds that you encounter at Le Wagon make you grow as a person and teach you how to tackle different problems with a variety of interpretations and solutions. People don’t compete with each other, they only help you compete with the person you were the day before. Not only does Le Wagon give you the technical competence to accomplish your projects, but the environment fostered drives you to constantly improve. The staff is here for every single student every step of the way: from helping create a dynamic environment between the students to presenting you with a myriad of opportunities to accomplish what you want(organized talks, meetings with startups etc..) to giving you advice on any help you could potentially need, and making themselves completely available. I have never worked with a team so dedicated to the success of the students. You are taught to never give up but to fight harder to succeed.

Le Wagon gave me some of the technical skills that I wanted and taught me that nothing is impossible. I am now doing a bootcamp in machine learning and artificial intelligence (Data science), to combine it which the coding skills I learnt at le Wagon in order to bring that to the next step of my medical studies and to constantly help the medical world evolve in the right direction.

Le wagon doesn’t last 9 weeks, it lasts your whole life. You build very strong links with the people that you work with everyday and with the family that you’ve become part of. The staff stays constantly available: before, during and after to accompany you and make sure you have own the keys to your success, the alumnis are always willing to help, to give you advice and to share their stories: everyone is here to help. I’m extremely grateful for what Le Wagon has taught me, both technically and humanely and wish everyone to have such a life-changing experience. Contact me if you have absolutely any question I could answer/help with!!!

After a 6 years as a Traffic Manager I decided to join Le Wagon because I wanted to understand how to make a website from scratch.
Right after the bootcamp, I got contacted by an digital agency to do Growth Hacking as a freelance which I got really keen... Read More on. The skills I learned at Le Wagon now help me to better sell myself and efficiently work with developers, which most growth marketers I have met can’t do as they do not have coding skills

Network - the course is not the end. I was surprised to see the community of 4,000+ alumni so active online where people are willing to help each other on programming, career, even just a short visit to another city where Le Wagon campus is based in.... Read More

Curriculum - Each time we learn a new concept, they let you build things from scratch by yourself first so that you see what’s behind all the magic. Also, they advance the level pretty fast - we start building small apps from week 2! It was tough but definitely helped build an architectural mindset from the beginning.

All the learnings lead to product building, which I think is essential for a full stack developer. There is a sprint day on user journey, user flow, design, wireframe and we were given two weeks to build a mock product and a real one for demo day. Our project team learned and enjoyed the journey so much that we decided to carry on with the project to launch it after the program. I think it wouldn’t have been possible without the confidence and encouragement we got throughout the course.

Last but not least, Le Wagon has a campus in Bali! Even though this was one of the main reasons I chose Le Wagon, I didn’t imagine it would make such a difference. Nature, lifestyle and people in Bali made this experience so much more inspiring. I was able to pursue a balanced life between coding and healing. We had yoga sessions outdoor regularly to get our poor brain and body burnt out by coding some rest. Being away from everything else, I could fully immerse into coding and the Bali team helped me adapt perfectly to Bali life and enjoy the experiences that I should not miss in here.

I graduated from Telecom ParisTech but I was not very familiar with code as I haven't been practicing for years. After a 5-year experience in the catering business, I decided to re-learn to code (nearly) from scratch by choosing to enrol at Le Wagon.... Read More I took a great pleasure while I was quickly moving forward. The steady immersion in an environment full of traps and spanners, the quality of the provided tools that is perfectly customised to the teaching of this practice, the great skills of the teachers and their ability to adapt to beginners to better help them to assimilate new concepts, the consistency of the teaching modules and their timeline, the nice work environment where the spirit of co-operation and comradeship is present from day 1, all these elements actively contributed to make me learn not only the basics enabling me to launch a decent web app on my own, but also make me acquire such a taste for coding that I could start a safe transition in web development, and only 2 months after the bootcamp I got hired as a junior developer in a very promising startup.

I urge everybody to join a coding bootcamp once in a lifetime, even out of curiosity, to discover how the web, one of the most precious and used tools, works and Le Wagon has an unquestionable know-how to make this experience truly exciting.

Before starting the bootcamp, I worked for years in international trade, mainly in supply chain management. In Brazil, Switzerland and France, I jumped from company to company several times until I realized that I was getting bored at work. But more than... Read More that, I needed to have autonomy in my work and not be limited to lengthy processes, hierarchies and meticulously delimited hours.

It became obvious to me that I needed not only to change my career, but to also learn something new that would not cease to stimulate me, in an innovative and dynamic field… then I heard about Le Wagon. Enrolling for the batch #220 was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made in my life.

They say the first 3 weeks are difficult, it’s actually worst than that. In the beginning, I thought that coding was after all maybe not for me! That’s when the pedagogical team and the environment played an incredible role, and everybody pushes you to go beyond your mental boundaries. Asking for a Teacher or an Assistant helps you to formulate the right questions and find your own solutions. The school’s methodology is very well developed and the learning curve does not stop rising. At the end of the second week, I remembered my first day there and I was amazed at the progress I had already made.

Being challenged and solving problems every day was one of the most exciting adventures I’ve ever experienced. It’s very intense, but rewarding when you see how much your brain can learn in 9 weeks.

Besides the different languages, many other skills I’ve learned and the projects I’ve been able to develop from scratch, I’m now part of a strong and empowering community.

More than that, thanks to Le Wagon, I now have the tools to define a whole new career and I regained the freedom to invest myself in what really motivates me.