Le Wagon

I previously worked in the banking industry as a Business Major but always wanted to upscale my technical skills, which is why I decided to join a bootcamp. I chose Le Wagon because of the diversity of people that typically are admitted into this bootcamp... Read More both in their experience and in their cultural background. Additionally, I wanted to be a part of a collaborative and supportive network of people always willing to help each other. Le Wagon has offered me all of those: a supportive community where everyone is extremely willing to help even after completion of the bootcamp, including teachers and staff, from any of their campuses throughout the world. The curriculum is great and really, you have to trust the process, because it may seem crazy to think that in such a short period of time you will feel confident in making a web application on your own, but it does happen. Beyond the intensity of the whole learning experience, the buddy system is great: we pair up with other students everyday in order to help each other or get a different perspective on the coding challenges, and the final team project was the cherry on top. All in all, it was a great experience that I am so happy I quit my job for. I feel confident about my coding skills and the bootcamp cares to make sure you are on the right track after graduation by suggesting all the tools and courses that will help you grow further. Le Wagon most definitely does not end at graduation!

After graduating from CS major and having a little Software Engineering experience, I was kind of lost with all the future ideas and job search. However having everlasting entrepreneur mindset had brought me to the Le Wagon to grasp all the skills one... Read More needs for Full-stack Development within a short period of time. In this 9 weeks not only I gained some new skills, but also I have mastered some of my previous ones, got into the big family of Le Wagon community, been part of amazing batch, got lifetime coding partners and the most important one - learned how to learn fast. Now that I have all the power programmer needs, exploring the world and sharing the knowledge... What else one needs for happiness?

Being a translator by profession, when I joined the 9-week intensive web development course at Le Wagon, I had a hard time keeping up with the classes because it was so intensive. I felt a bit lost the first two weeks, having the feeling that I was the... Read More only one behind everyone else in the "class". Little by little, you adapt, you take things in hand and you move forward. You have to be able to follow the rhythm, but the teachers, TA (teacher assistants) are very nice and help you when you get stuck during the coding challenges. The bootcamp provides students with immense resources (videos, access to exercises, and their solutions, etc.). The training is indeed expensive, but it's worth it. In the last 2 weeks of the course, you also have projects that you will build from A to Z as a team and present during a DemoDay. At the end of the training, Le Wagon organized the Career week where we had the opportunity to meet some companies. Honestly, I liked my experience at Le Wagon. I would say that Le Wagon is also a great human experience, which allows me to meet people from very different backgrounds.

I came into the bootcamp not knowing anything about writing code and thinking HTML and CSS were coding languages. I graduated with a fully envisioned project using various frameworks and knowledge to build any website or webapp I can think of. What I... Read More wasn't ready for was the fact that not only did i acquire knowledge, but i also came to be part of a great batch, a group of people that by the end I could in fact call my friends. The day to day work was made easy by this fact and we were able to lean on each other and learn from each other in a more dynamic an organic way. Our batch driver and community manager as well as the teachers and TA's did everything in order to make us feel at home during the bootcamp. Their always ready to help attitude was a real help during the more stressful times of the course. The experience would have been perfect if not for the career week that due to things that were out of Le Wagon's control felt a little bit detached in comparison to the rest of the experience. I am very grateful to the work and to Le Wagon for everything and I truly recommend it for anyone looking to change their life through code.

I followed the web development session from September to December. I can only recommend the Wagon program in particular in Bordeaux in France. These 9 intense weeks allowed me to put the first foot in web development from scratch thanks to the excellent... Read More teachers (and assistant teachers) always listening. The staff of Wagon Bordeaux also makes every effort to ensure that the bootcamp goes as smoothly as possible thanks to regular events, advice and support.

After my Bachelor in Business Engineering, I wasn’t sure of what to do and I didn’t want to fall into that ‘become-a-consultant’ kind of path. I had heard about Le Wagon thanks to a classmate, and I had studied a really basic introduction to programming... Read More within my curse, so I thought it would be nice to add another string to my bow by learning to code! I had never coded anything in my life, so I was a bit afraid but the way Le Wagon has built their program makes it really easy for anyone to do it. Before starting the bootcamp you have to do a full prep-work that includes courses about Ruby, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and some web preparations. It’s also a way to really see if learning to code is really what you want to do! We then start every day with a lecture, and then we work on challenges the whole day, with Teachers and TA’s available to help us. We also end with what we call ‘live code’ which is basically a big exercise similar to what we’ve been doing during the day, but that we’re doing altogether. People at Le Wagon is also something that made this whole experience as amazing as it was: from the Teachers and TA’s always being available to help, to the Le Wagon Madrid team (Fanny and Emilia): they made everything they could to make our experience as smooth as possible. We also were very lucky in my batch (#725) because we’re very close, and those classmates really turned into a family! <3 Another very nice point is that you get life access to Kitt, the Le Wagon platform. And this means life access to all the lectures, challenges, tutorials, every resource stays available to you! We also have a huge community on Slack where there are channels for every need: to find a job, to ask questions, to ask for help, or to share memes. Doing the bootcamp has definitely opened a lot of doors! Before the end of the 9 weeks, I had already received two job offers. Furthermore, we had an extra ‘Job week’ where we have been given guidelines on how to build our resumes, how to take care of our GitHub, and we got loads of tips and tricks from Alumni as well as Start-ups owners or Teachers. And if you want to have a glance at what my classmates thought about Le Wagon, don’t hesitate to have a look at the Le Wagon Spain Instagram account, where I took over during a week to show the student point-of-view of this life-changing experience!

When I decided I wanted to transition into a career as a web developer, it was hard to know where to start. I have been around computers and technology my whole life, so my first instinct was to teach myself through online resources, but it was overwhelming:... Read More which programming language should I learn? What topics were important to focus on? I heard about Le Wagon from friends who were working in tech, and after reading about their hands-on approach to learning I decided to enroll. Now, having completed their 9-week intensive bootcamp, I can say that it was one of the best decisions I have ever made. While the bootcamp was extremely fast-paced, the lessons have all been carefully structured with challenges and projects that help reinforce the many new concepts we learned. The teachers and TAs were amazingly helpful and supportive; my own background is in teaching and education, so I truly appreciated how they helped us learn how to learn programming. But what truly made the experience special to me was how much Le Wagon provided beyond just learning to code. Each day we were either paired with a learning buddy or working in our project groups, so we learned how to work as a team and prioritize tasks. Our teachers and TAs were all former alumni so they were able to share practical advice, and all of the Le Wagon staff was incredibly friendly and supportive whether we were learning on campus or remotely. Even after finishing the bootcamp, Le Wagon provided us with tools and support for starting our new career, and we have access to so many well-structured learning paths for the future. Le Wagon has a large international community to connect with as well! I would highly recommend Le Wagon to anyone who is motivated to start a new career in tech! It was an amazing experience for me and I am excited about continuing my new journey as a full-stack developer while being a part of the Le Wagon community.

Coming from a finance background I did not know what to expect when I signed up for Le Wagon. I just knew I wanted to change my career and do something meaningful. I took the Le Wagon part-time course and it was nothing short of amazing. It was one of... Read More the most intense yet enriching programs I have ever done. I learned so much and in the end, I can confidently call myself a full-stack developer. As a bonus, I met some of the most helpful teachers and TAs that I ever had, with who I intend to keep in contact throughout my career as a developer. Thank you Le Wagon for playing a huge part in a life-changing decision I made.

It’s difficult to describe my experience at Le Wagon… you have to live it to understand how amazing it is! It is intense for sure… some days I felt like a loser who couldn’t understand anything, and some days I felt like there was nothing I couldn’t achieve.... Read More On the bad days, teachers and other students were always there to cheer me up and tell me not to give up and « trust the process ». By the end of the bootcamp, when it came to project weeks, I can tell you this sentence made so much sense to me! It is crazy for me to see how much I learned and gained confidence throughout these 9 weeks, being able to build an app from scratch in only 10 days… Of course, there is still a lot to learn after the bootcamp, but I think all developers need to keep learning whatever their background is. Le Wagon provides us with a very solid base and a certain frame of mind from which it is easy to develop our skills and even land our first job as juniors. On my part, thanks to the career week offered by Le Wagon just after the bootcamp, I was able to meet 8 companies out of which 6 took an interest in me and offered me the opportunity to enter an application process. So just 2 weeks after the bootcamp, I already received a very interesting job offer. The outcome clearly goes beyond my expectations! Besides that, on a human level, the bootcamp was so fulfilling! I developed a very good relationship with all teachers, students, and other Le Wagon staff, many that I know I will keep seeing after the bootcamp. We had so much fun working together on different challenges and projects, and with such a good team spirit and kindness amongst us, it felt like a small family! And I know every student had the same feeling, we were all pretty sad when the bootcamp was over, we kind of wished it would’ve lasted longer ^^ I know I hesitated between several bootcamps or longer programs, I hesitated also because of the price of the bootcamp, etc but if I had to do it all over again, I would stick to Le Wagon… it was the best educational experience in my whole life!

I'm a Designer who had always wanted to learn how to code, and had tried many different approaches, and definitely Le Wagon's structure, teachers and curriculum was the best thing I could have chosen. As soon as the first week ended I knew I had made... Read More the right decision. Through 9 very intense weeks I learned concepts I had no idea I was capable of learning, the teachers make it look so easy, the Teacher Assistants help you feel like an expert all by yourself, and now that I have finished, it's amazing how many things, and new learning paths I have. I am now a Designer who knows how to build his own creations, and that's the best thing that could've happened to me, I feel ready for any challenge, any job, any project. I thought I was entering a course that was going to teach me HTML, and now, for my own surprise, I can even call myself a Full Stack Dev, that's astounding. So now, from my own portfolio, to any web app I can imagine, I'm ready to build.