AI Software bootcamp | On campus, full-time

After three years of teaching science and math to high school students, I wanted to transition into a field where I could build on my technical skills to creatively solve problems.The Le Wagon Full Stack Development Bootcamp was a standout with its positive student reviews, well-structured curriculum and practical approach to learning.After 1 week of the Le Wagon course, I knew I had found the career and learning community for me. Over the next several weeks, every single person worked with unwavering determination and excitement to support their own and others' learning. This program has provided me with the skills, knowledge, and confidence to embark into this challenging and exciting field of creative problem solving and lifelong learning.All the knowledge and skills developed over the Bootcamp culminated with three intense project weeks. I had an idea to create an app to support teachers to support their students’  emotional and social wellbeing. In a small team of three, we designed, built and proudly presented our app Sammi (sammi.live) in front of ~250 people at a live demo event. Thank you Le Wagon London for an unforgettable and positive learning experience. I definitely recommend anyone interested in developing their technical skills in coding to learn with the amazing Le Wagon team and the students.

I recently graduated from lewagon Batch-318 in London. I came into the course with already some experience in coding. Ruby was new to me and it was great diving into a new langue. Their interactive coding challenges are amazing. Ruby was quite intense - it's a lot that you learn in a very brief time. But even for the subjects that I already had experience, there always were interesting advanced challenges. With the buddy system you're every day paired up with another coding-buddy. Some days you guide someone through every step and some you try to follow someones pace. Most of the students came without any background in coding. But with the prep-work everyone was already at a good level. And all were keen on learning and have a passion for coding. There were lots of great social events. And a ongoing community supports you when you're stuck with your code.

Before joining Le Wagon, I was working as operations supervisor in a private aviation company. I liked my job, but quite often I felt like I wanted to do something more technical and have a job where I could constantly learn and improve my skills. So I decided to learn how to code!
I joined Le Wagon in July 2019, and it was definitely one of the best decisions I made in my life. The learning experience was extremely challenging for me, but also a lot of fun. What really stood out for me, was this constant positive vibe coming from teachers, teaching assistants and everyone working at Le Wagon. Everyone was always very helpful, supportive and encouraging.
During the final weeks, I was working together with 3 more people from our batch on the project that I pitched. It was a website where people could join environmental challenges, earn points for completing them and compete with their friends. It was a really challenging but extremely rewarding experience to work as a team to bring this idea to life. I definitely learned a lot during the last 2 weeks - everything we learned before really clicked during the final weeks (to be fair, all teachers were saying everything would click during project weeks, but I wasn't sure it would happen to me!) In the final day of the project weeks, I got to pitch our project at Google for Startups Campus, which was a really great experience too.
What I really like about Le Wagon, is that you are still a part of the community even after you graduate. You are always welcome to come to all the events they host, to become a teaching assistant, to join for drinks, to connect with people from their global community via slack, etc.
Finally, it is worth mentioning that 1.5 months after graduating, I got a job as a junior developer. Can't imagine this happening without Le Wagon :)
If are still hesitating to join this bootcamp, do it, you will not regret it!

6 years ago, I came to London to study at a University a course my parents picked for me. I didn’t enjoy it, in fact I hated it. After graduation I spent years trying to find a job in the field I studied without success. Before Le Wagon I had been hopping from one dead-end job to another, trying to find the right fit. Last year I decided it was time to make a big move and start a career. I’ve always been drawn to technology and found a new interest in AI development. I then came across Le Wagon coding bootcamp and instantly felt it was the right path to follow. It’s a super intense course, and I really struggled in the first 3 weeks with the basics. I started to question/regret my decision, but the team of highly skilled teachers and teaching assistants always reminded me to “trust the process”.The more I heard this infamous quote the more I began to hate it. But then, in the 4th week it all ‘clicked’, and suddenly everything started to make sense. I was coding with less help from the teachers and felt smarter and empowered day by day. Finally, the project days came, where we were randomly allocated to form teams of 3-4 students. That’s when we utilised all of our new-found skills to create real web applications and deploy them on a server. For the final project, my team and I worked on a mental health support web application for students and teachers called Sammi (www.sammi.live). We created a fully functioning MVP in only 10 days! How crazy is that? After Demo Day, where we presented our app in front of circa 250 people at the Barbican Centre, we were given workshops on how to pimp our LinkedIn profiles and CV’s to boost our employability prospects. Trust me, I had a zero confidence in myself to find a job. They call it impostor syndrome. I was afraid due to prior experience with failed job interviews that I would never get a job. Six days later I had my first interview, and later that day they offered me the position. I started the next day and am currently working for a great start up. I’m still turning down interviews to this day, when just 3 months ago I couldn’t even get responses to my job applications, it’s nuts! I can’t recommend Le Wagon highly enough. It’s not just about the skills you get from the course. There’s also all the post course content, and life-time support from the entire community around the globe available to you anytime you need. But most importantly to me, it’s the life-lasting friendships I have made there. Those are priceless. I am forever grateful to you, for changing my life!- David Belka

I came to Le Wagon to add coding to my skillset and find a job where I could use these skills. I heard of le Wagon from some friends that highly recommended it and wasn’t disappointed. In only 9 weeks I learned so much that I can confidently work as a full stack developer.

The bootcamp was great, in terms of learning as the program was well structured, linking well lectures and exercises but also as an experience as I met incredible people and had a lot of fun. The staff was very friendly and competent, the TA’s were also supportive whenever you had a problem and made things very easy to understand. Finally the project weeks were a fantastic way of linking everything that we learned into a real website. Working for 3 weeks with the same team, bonding and achieving two complete websites was very fulfilling. I generally recommend Le Wagon to anyone who would want to work in that area or generally interested and curious about coding.

I’m Mathilde, I’m 30 years old. In my past life, I was a lead project for different digital agencies. As I was tired of discussing marketing debates all day long, I wanted to go deeper into tangible tech issues by learning how to code with Le Wagon. I liked it so much that I’m actually becoming a fullstack developer !

Before joining Le Wagon I worked at several start-ups in non-technical roles, I had always worked closely with the software developers and was intrigued by their work so inevitably I took the plunge to learn how to code for myself. I absolutely loved my time at Le Wagon and the intensity of the learning experience, it really was from zero coding knowledge to being able to build fully-functioning web apps.

The best part for me was the sense of satisfaction once ideas finally clicked into place and once the daily challenges had been completed. The teachers and teaching assistants were super patient and supportive and made the experience what it was, I feel very lucky to have had help from such talented teachers. I wish I could do the bootcamp all over again!

Applying at Le Wagon Milan has been one of the best decisions I ever made.

I applied while working a part-time job at a hotel, unsatisfied and at a loss on which direction to take for my future. I've always had a dormant interest in coding, but had no skills whatsoever and thought code was way out of my league.
I was scared, since all of my skills while studying were in humanities, and thought my logic wasn't strong enough to endure all of the small implicacies in code. Le Wagon showed me that this wasn't the case at all.

The course makes you instantly feel welcome, everyone is high energy and determined. The positivity is contagious, and while undeniably tough, I ended up waking up every morning with a smile on my face, eager to learn more.

It doesn't matter what your starting point is, teachers are always patient and happy to help you, and the course is structured so you challenge yourself every day and learn. Nobody is left behind. It's the polar opposite of traditional schooling, as they make it a point to make you leave Le Wagon with two projects under your belt and able to make a website from scratch.

All in all, Le Wagon has given me the tools to make a living as a developer, which is more than any other program has ever done for me.

After graduating from an IT Engineer school and a Business school, I worked for 7 years in a management consulting firm in Paris. My job was to manage IT projects in the main companies of Transportation and Energy sectors. 

After that, I decided to focus my career back to my technical skills and to become a web developer ! My wish was to work on the "other side" of the IT projects, and be part of the technical team that really designs and builds the applications. To this end, I followed the FullStack track at Le Wagon coding bootcamp in Paris between October and December 2019. I really enjoyed Le Wagon bootcamp. The lectures and tutorial classes are very well organized. The teachers and teaching assistants are always willing to help and to get all students to give the best of themselves. I really learned a lot during those 9 weeks, and also met great people !

My wish is now to join a promising tech start-up as a back-end or full stack developer and to work on a product I believe in. Ideally, this start-up will be a fast-growing company dealing with great technical challenges and have a strong company culture. 

I spent my last summer at Le Wagon coding Bootcamp in Chengdu. It was an intensive and transformative 9 weeks that unlock my potential in programming. Throughout the Bootcamp, I paired up with fellow classmates to solve coding challenges every day and build our own application prototype starting from absolutely zero prior knowledge on web development. It was an amazing journey when I am looking back to have accomplished so much in a short 9 weeks.

A unique module at the Chengdu campus was the experience of designing our WeChat mini-program. WeChat mini-program has gained popularity since it launched and has allowed programmers to realize their startup ideas reaping the benefit from the prevalence of WeChat in China. The WeChat mini-program module includes basic knowledge on wxml and wxss, the use of WeChat developer tool, as well as the logistics of setting up domain and cloud storage space in China. At the end of the Bootcamp, all our fellow classmates decided to build a mini-program for our final projects and it was a great success.

I was an MBA student prior to joining the Bootcamp, and I aimed to create my startup one day. The experience at Le Wagon definitely helps me achieve my goal. The Bootcamp has helped me understand the technical parts so that I can communicate with other programming professionals without any language barriers. I have also accumulated some project management experience through cooperating with my teammates to create our own application in a tight timeframe. All of these were achieved through the help and patience of teachers at the Chengdu campus. A big thanks to them!

I took the chance on Le Wagon based on reviews like these and the inspiring mindset of the students and Lausanne Driver that I met at an event.  I was a truck driver looking to make a big change in career and had doubts that I would be taken seriously with just two months of courses but to my delight, Le Wagon gave me the tools I needed to succeed.

The course is extremely well-curated.  It is constantly updated to keep up with industry tech and best practices.  The emphasis on practical knowledge meant that I was developing the skills I needed in a professional setting from first day of the couse to the last... and beyond.

When I finished the course I decided to focus on incorporating Deep Learning into the skillset I had developed at Le Wagon.  Thanks to learning strategy and best practices ingrained in my in those 9 weeks I was able to go on learning on my own and only a few months later I have begun working on app development with a focus on Deep Learning at a startup here in Lausanne!

Thanks so much to the fellow students, the staff, and the ineffable Lausanne Driver Thibault for making this possible.

My name is Costin Dumitrescu and I just graduated from Le Wagon Coding Bootcamp. The past two months have changed me a lot on a personal plan. Besides the obvious which is that I can read and write code, make websites and do some web design, I grew up a lot on a personal level. It requires a lot of organization, motivation and the will to learn in order to make it to the end, but the satisfaction that comes when you see what are you able to do at the end of the nine weeks is incredible. At Le Wagon I have learned how to work with different people, organize myself and deal with situations that are not ideal (like in the corporate world when you do not like or agree with your colleague). There were many moments when I questioned myself if I understand the concepts and if yes, can I apply it after I graduate? The answer to all my doubts was " YES, YOU CAN, JUST TRUST THE PROCESS". This sentence that the teachers and staff are constantly repeating it is true. I could not believe it until later on when I did the first project and realized that I did it (not alone, with help from colleagues and teachers, but I finally connected the dots and understood the code and how the project was built). I would recommend to anyone to go to this Bootcamp because of the amazing worldwide community, awesome teachers and staff, and well-structured course.

Before my experience in Le Wagon Paris. I was studying in a Communication School, ISCOM. I graduated with a UX Design Master degree this year however I’ve always enjoyed learning design and code. During my studies, I worked on many projects with my friends for fun : designing interfaces with only HTML/CSS, creating components with Sketch (not Figma yet) and exploring during hours Bechance, Dribbble and many other websites.
During my last years in school, I had UX Design courses but never had the opportunity to practice how I wished. I was really frustrated and I told my friend “Why are we not working on concrete projects ? With interfaces, wireframes ... ?” However, I continued to learn code and design by myself. Then, I started my own communication agency, “MAKY”. One of my services is to create a website by using Wordpress. However, over time I realised that I had limitations due to my lack of skills in coding.That’s why I started to learn how to code and because I had always wanted to be a Webdesigner. I had always been attracted to beautiful colors, interfaces, components and all the graphic universe of a website. I got solid bases on standard languages : HTML/CSS and a bit of Javascript. But I had never learned how to create a web application like Airbnb, Uber … So, I promised myself that when I graduate, I would learn how to create a web application from scratch, the perfect solution for me was Le Wagon Paris. Le Wagon is famous for being the best coding bootcamp in the world.And I’m very happy with my decision. I really enjoyed the weeks I spent there, the courses, the environment and the teachers were amazing ! I strengthened my skills and gained new ones : manipulate a database, make a git command, write a script in Ruby, create a repository in GitHub, design wireframes & prototyping which was my favorite part ! Thanks to this intensive bootcamp, I’m now able to respond to a growing demand from my clients, create a web application from scratch. I hope these new skills will help my agency reach another level. I also have other entrepreneurial projects around web applications. You will definitely hear about me really soon !

After graduating from business school, I wanted to learn how to code. I followed the wagon bootcamp at the end of 2019. I never thought I would learn so much in 9 weeks and live such a rewarding experience. The pedagogy is excellent and the team of the wagon very welcoming. This experience was beneficial, and we learnt in the best conditions. The team brought the class together with success. I now have all the keys to code a website and continue learning other languages.  Thanks to these skills and the network of the wagon, I know that I will now be able to find a job as a web developer. I highly recommend this training!

Having just finished my second year at the University of Virginia, I had to choose a major. For the past 2 years I took multiples classes in a lot of areas such as economics, math, psychology. However none of them interested me enough to declare my major in any of these fields. I felt like I needed more time to decide so I took a sabbatical year to discover new domains. A domain that intrigued me a lot was coding. So I asked around me if anyone new something about coding. A friend of mine just finished Le Wagon in London and could not be more happy so I decided to try it for myself in Paris , it is only 9 weeks why not ?

During those 9 weeks I felt a lot of stuff. I started to feel lost not knowing anything, anyone. After a few days, confused in how I was going to learn that many things in just 63 days. A week later surprised, I was actually learning and assimilating all the knowledge I was struggling with for 15 days. At the end of the batch, I felt relieved, thankful and excited. Relieved because I had finished the training, thankful because it was amazing and excited because it opened so many opportunities for my future. I learnt HTML CSS JS and Ruby on rails whilst working with a team in a safe environment, again in only 9 weeks.

I have only one thing to say to Le Wagon : Thank you for everything you have done for us.  

Engaged in M&A and investment banking activities since 1984, I launched Equitix in 2019, a fintech company dedicated to Private Equity fundraising. The aim is to raise private equity capital for small French companies, quicker and cheaper.
I first joined Le Wagon in oct 2019, completed the 9 weeks webdev bootcamp (Paris Batch #321), and it was fun and intense, thanks to Le Wagon’s very well organized structure and the help of my coding mates.
Besides HTML, JS, CSS, Ruby Rails, SQL..., with Le Wagon I discovered new solutions for Equitix business model, and decided to rethink its UX patterns.
The quality of the teachings and management at Le Wagon, made me sign for the next 9 weeks Data Science bootcamp that starts in April 2020, with the aim to better understand how to integer data management, ML and AI tools in Equitix DNA.Antoine Fillet, 63 - CEO Equitix 
Momentum SAS

Freshly graduated in business engineering and marketing, I joined the French tech a few years ago with a focus on growth marketing. I quickly grew frustrated by my limited knowledge of web development and decided to challenge myself by expanding my growth hacking skills with Le Wagon.
I started with basic knowledge in SQL, HTML, and Python but most importantly a furious need to build stuff by myself!

After only 9 weeks, thanks to an INCREDIBLE staff and fantastic teaching, not only have I learned coding in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, and Ruby on Rails but I also grasped the main concerns and constraints of IT & Product teams.
I am now capable of building my own projects from design to hosting and this represents a huge asset for anyone who wants to work in tech companies.

Now, the only issue I have is to choose among all the different opportunities of career paths opened by LeWagon!

My name is Cedrik Razafimanantsoa and I successfully completed the Bootcamp at Le Wagon Paris on December 2019, batch 320.

Before Le Wagon, I worked as French Community Manager for World of Warcraft and other games at Blizzard Entertainment for 9 years. I worked with Html and CSS regularly, but I never learnt how to build a website from scratch.

Last year I decided to do a reconversion as a web developer and I looked for advice. An experienced web developer at Blizzard pointed me to Le Wagon, as he did a similar bootcamp years ago. He convinced me this was the best place to learn coding and I am now convinced it was a very good choice.

With the knowledge I acquired there, I have the feeling that a new career is possible for me. I am also confident that I can continue my learning on my own, to hone my coding skills and to learn new technics. Having Web developer skills is a perfect complement to my experience as community manager.

After getting an MFA in Ecole des Beaux Arts de Paris, I started developing personal projects while working as a registrar in galleries and museums in Paris. I then became a trainer for TechShop Paris, a fablab based in Station F, teaching laser-cutting, 3D-printing and CNC-embroidery for 2 years. All this time, I tried to learn some code for both professional and personal projects, but without really controlling what the output would be.. I learned bits of Java for an Android App and some parts of Python for a facial recognition-based art installation. 

In 2019, I took the decision to enroll to Le Wagon, Paris and learn Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Javascript, HTML and CSS. The nine weeks program was intense and fast-paced. My mind went from “OMG I’m never gonna finish this alive” to “Ha ! That was (sort of) easy !”. Only three weeks after getting certified, I started working for the French State Startup program, developing a full platform in Rails for one of them !

After my engineering studies and during my 6-year experience of Quality Assurance in Construction, my career was mostly management-oriented. I felt frustrated at times for things that I was unable to do with an Excel sheet, or when, due to a lack of a database, different departments did not spread information correctly.

Long story short, I wanted to learn more about web app conception after realizing the technical limitations in a large organization taking care of major projects. I heard about Le Wagon at this time of my career when I needed some change, and now that I attended, I still cannot believe how well organized and benevolent the staff was, and how much I have learned in less than 3 months. The group of students was of diverse background, but all bonded over the excitement of learning to code. I chose to be a freelance developer during the bootcamp,  which I can only recommend!