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Prior to Le Wagon I had no tech background at all. Le Wagon has been by far the most intensive and efficient training I have ever followed. In fact, by the end of the bootcamp I was easily able to complete take-home assignments and started working as a developer shortly after completing the bootcamp.  

The methodology, the staff and people were amazing!

After 9 weeks at Le Wagon, I was able to make a web app by myself and had enough confidence to keep on learning.

I dabbled in coding when I was in high school but never thought to pursue a career in it. I have a bachelor's degree in business economics and after spending over 4 years as an ophthalmic technician I decided I wanted to do something different. 

The Bootcamp was definitely a challenge for me, and I struggled initially in a good way. I think the structure of the Bootcamp and learning method worked for me. Short and intense lectures every morning and then the rest of the day to work on what we learned that morning. It's really an incredible learning curve and it was amazing to see how quickly i progressed. The resources that Le Wagon provides are outstanding. The learning platform we used, Kitt, is great because all the lesson material is in one place and we can always refer or check the lecture slides and knowledge base because we have lifetime access to it! 

I worked on Lavender, a platform for social investment as my final project. I especially enjoyed JavaScript - one of the many programming languages we learned in the Bootcamp. It makes dynamic websites and I was able to code the features in the final app we presented at the end of the Bootcamp. I enjoy every part of the development process but my favorite is working on the front end because of its creative potential, because I can see the results immediately. So I think for anyone interested in coding, I really recommend Le Wagon because you get to explore different languages and eventually you'll see what works for you and maybe you even discover what you want to do with these new skills. 

Doing the Bootcamp in Bali was a great decision. Le Wagon has locations all over the world but I felt that coming from Los Angeles, it would be a similar environment. The weather is great and I don't think there's any place I'd rather learn to code in. You have this great view from the classroom and it's all positive vibes. Spending 2 months in Bali really makes a huge difference.

Before I started the Bootcamp, the goal was to learn how to code and produce creative products and solve problems. I was able to accomplish all of that after 9 weeks, that's pretty crazy. I definitely had to work hard throughout the program but it was worth it. Le Wagon has helped me start the journey to pursue my interest in building scalable, innovative products that can make a positive difference in its users' lives.

Great experience at Le Wagon. I made the decision to attend the Bootcamp in hopes of becoming a digital nomad. It was a great experience and taught me what it's going to take to make my dreams come true. I would recommend this Bootcamp to anyone looking to get into the tech industry or just learn a new skill.

After more than 10 years as an operational and financial director, I recently decided to launch my own company. Quickly, I felt frustrated by my lack of technical knowledge and necessity to rely on others to do even a simple landing page, and thus decided to join Le Wagon.
With no prior technical knowledge, and Uni being a vague memory for me, I have to admit that those 9 weeks were pretty intense. But between the amazing teachers and the mutual support between students, it felt like one of the most vibrant experience of my life. More than skills, Le Wagon teach you to be product oriented and above else, made me part of a family of vibrant professionals, always looking after each other.
Thanks to Le Wagon, I’m now finalizing my landing page and will soon launch an MVP of my product, myntee.io.

As a partner in an EdTech Company i wanted to understand better how code is built, how is the process of the tech team working together.

That is why i looked for a coding bootcamp.

I stayed away form my company for 9 full weeks and it was 100% worth it!

Graduated from a business school, having worked in finance, marketing and business development in the Real Estate Industry and Banks, I was seeking to develop my entrepreneurship skills.

I always was excited intellectually about coding, starting like many financial persons on excel and going through VBA to automatize many processes of the working place I used to work into, improving the fluidity of the operational part, diminishing repetitive actions and minimizing human risks.

Deeping myself into the code, was for me a necessity, mainly because I always want to learn about everything, but moreover be able to understand, communicate and exchange in my future jobs (that will for sure be in the tech industry) with either technical or business persons.

What is the most surprising in this experience, is that you came to learn code, thinking that you will spend hours on your computer, and going back home exhausted. Well, most of the days you will...

But some other days, starting paying attention to your environment, you will meet incredible people, with outstanding background: from the person being a monk over the past 10 year looking to change his life for good, to the marketing / HR persons looking for to have shift in his career passing through the professional tennisman and brilliant entrepreneur passionate about investment.

Having such diversity is what makes this Bootcamp something bigger than just a learning experience. Maybe not everybody leaves from here, having new best friends, but for sure you are now a part of a new family. It's just up to you to dive yourself into it.

So, what I'm doing now ?

Having a focus on the product I dedicate my recent days to work with my CTO in my start-up on the UX / UI (being more interested in the front aspect) conceiving and achieving our product.
At the same time, I'm on my way to pass jobs interview to join two persons of my project team (grizbi) that has been hired in the same place, a consultancy firm dedicated on digital transformation integrating technical aspect in his reflexion and having a environment similar to the one that you can find in le Wagon.
And finally but not the least, as I always wanted to involve myself in education, I had the opportunity to join Le Wagon's team as Teacher Assistant in order to help and follow the new student in their comprehension.

That's it for me, the rest you will have to discover it by yourself, but first come to the Demo Day to just have a hint of what can be a signifcant change in your life !

Good luck on your learning path ! 

You do not learn to read and write to become a writer, you learn it to be able to communicate and actively participate to your environment. Le Wagon allows you to do both: it not only gives you the skills to become a Junior Developper, it also increases your product and entrepreneurial mindset to be able to thrill in a potential future career in the Tech field. 

Prior to le Wagon, as a brand new graduate in a traditional Economics & Management bachelor, I had no clue I could be up to learning how to code. We all have this cliché in mind that it is a skill reserved to ‘engineers’. The only skill required to master web development is a true and determined motivation. 

I first attended Le Wagon to gain independence and be able to create web products from scratch. I achieved my goals following their intense but extremely qualitative bootcamp program, surrounded by an amazing teaching team. What made my experience so unique is that they put as much efforts in teaching students how to code than animating and reinforcing the community. Attending a Le Wagon bootcamp also means accessing several entrepreneurial talks from inspiring startups, attending workshops, have fun during afterworks, and above everything meeting incredible people with whom you will build a very strong team spirit until final projets.

Le Wagon is a life changing experience and now that the bootcamp is finished I am starting my Master in Management with full-stack Developper skills, a strong and efficient product mindset, access to professional opportunities through Le Wagon active community, thousands of new ideas and more importantly, the opportunity of evolving in a career I will have chosen. I 10,000% recommended it.

Before starting Le Wagon, I was working as a Senior Consultant for a consulting firm specialized in tech. I was contributing to many projects. Mainly UX/UI, CRM and Marketing projects. But I wasn't fully satisfied because I wanted to learn precisely how things work. For example in design, you can be a good designer who knows how to use design tools (such as Sketch and Figma). But to become a great designer, you need some serious coding skills. It's really important to be able to differentiate what can be done, how long it will take, what are your constraints due to the tech stack, and so on. So I came to Le Wagon in order to develop that kind of skills and work on interesting projects.

I was really (and positively) surprised when I arrived, because above everything else, Le Wagon is a strong community of like-minded people. During the bootcamp, you meet a lot of interesting people who have various backgrounds, and different ways of thinking. This is extremely valuable because you will always work at some point with someone who found the solution to an exercise, but in a complete different way than yours. And this is where it gets really interesting if you are curious, because you will start to study different way of approaching the same problem. And then you will probably come up with several solutions, while being able to assess the pros and cons for each solutions.

This is just a small example of why Le Wagon is unique. Teachers are fascinating, very accessible, nice and competent. The staff is very active, and helpful when you need them. Like I said, this a community that lives with strong values, and also digitally with a myriad of Slack channels where alumnis continuously share helpful information, job posts, resources, tips...

Frankly, before starting Le Wagon I had fear that I wouldn't find what I was expecting with a bootcamp. But as soon as I started, I felt great and always pushed to learn more. And this was before the life-changing experience of the final projects where you work as a team. This is probably the best moments at Le Wagon, when you realize that, YES YOU CAN DO IT! You can design and develop great websites. And you are not alone to do it!

I found exactly what I expected, because Le Wagon gave me the opportunity to improve my coding skills, and now I feel much more confident as a Product Designer as I ever was before, because I have a better understanding of the articulation between design and code. I am able to design and develop my own UI components, and think more broadly about the UX, and how everything will work from a back-end standpoint. So yeah... Le Wagon is great, and if you are a curious and motivated person, I think you should definitely do it!

After 15 years in audit and corporate finance in a few countries, I was looking for a change and new challenges. One of my relationship suggested I should learn coding and introduced me to Le Wagon. I immediately liked the program and registered for the summer batch in Paris. As most of the participants, I was a bit skeptical when we started the first week that we could achieve a real VMP at the end of the bootcamp as they told us. The result was beyond my expectation. Not only we managed to do it in the last two weeks, but the adventure was just starting. We decided with one of my batch member to continue to develop our product and to create our on own company which we are currently doing now. A real thanks to Le Wagon and its team (teacher, assistants, staff,…) and to all our batch for this 9 weeks. The organization, tools and community we met were above expectation for me. I definitely recommend the experience for anybody who wants a change in his/her professional life.

I wanted a carrier change, so at the beginning of this year I started looking for a bootcamp that could allow me to study and work at the same time! When I finally found Le Wagon I couldn't believe to my eyes, cause their part time programme was perfect to me cause I didn't have to leave my job in order to attend classes! Also the teachers were all amazing! They helped me a lot to understand difficult things that I wouldn't never imagine to learn! Now I can code and this is thanks to all le wagon team! Definitely one of the best experience of my life! Very satisfying! 

With so many bootcamps out there I was torn on which one I should I apply for. After some extensive research I ended up choosing Le Wagon. I completed Bootcamp 273 in Bali back in August 2019 and couldn't be happier with my choice. 

The full stack course provides you a great grounding in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL and Ruby. It's a challenging curriculum and there were times when I felt like I was simply not progressing or struggling to understand a particular concept, but Guido and the rest of the team were always on hand to help. Besides being challenging the course is also incredibly fun and rewarding. Having an idea in your head and bringing it to life with code is just an amazing experience.

At the end of the bootcamp I couldn't believe what our team had managed to achieve. We developed a fully functioning app that served as a platform to match recycling banks with recycling collectors, the idea was to help reduce the amount single use plastic a prevalent problem in South East Asia and I was so proud with what the team and I managed to build. 

If you're on the fence on whether to go on the Le Wagon, my advice would be to just go for it. You will not be disappointed, it's an incredible life changing experience!!

January 2019: I was preparing to quit my job after a 10-year experience in the same company to create one on my own. 

Launching my start-up was an exciting challenge. But how to start? 

My project (to promote sports in the workplace) was based on a web platform. 

My issue? I did not know anything about coding websites or applications. So, I decided to look for a CTO as a co-founding partner. 

I shaked my network, and the network of my network to talk with people who had created tech companies or who were working with developers. 

After some interviews, all were unanimous: it's almost impossible to find an available CTO. As the demand is way higher than the offer = it's a very expensive knowledge". But ONE word came back three times: "Le Wagon: change your life learn to code".

This is how I started two months later my incredible 3-month experience at Le Wagon. 9 (very very) intensive weeks to learn a new language. To start a new life. To challenge my learning abilities, more than durung the 10 years I spent developing field agility.

Why Le Wagon is a successfull coding bootcamp? 

Thanks to its pedagogy based on : 

   1- boisterous rhythm whose strength is that theorical classes(25% daily) are wisely mixed up with practical exercises (75%). When your brain is utterly fried, you keep on underpinning fundamentals notions. 

   2- People's diversity and background wealth : everyday, thanks to a "random wheel" they "forced" you to work with a different, new, buddy. Smart move. Besides cultivating a supportive and friendly athmosphere, we created a "clan" strong feelings. 

   3- Everybody is dedicated to your success. Every teacher, teacher assistant or staff member is solicitous for one reason: they were in your shoes a few months or weeks before.  

To sum up, Le wagon is a professional, human and crazy experience you have to live. 

I used to work in programmatic advertising and I was looking for a new challenge. I felt my profile was lacking of technical skills and I wanted to do something more concrete but in a short amount of time.
I decided to do le wagon and it was an amazing experience. Extremely intense though but worth it.
I wouldn’t have imagined my self being able to do what I achieved at le Wagon.
I highly recommend it.

Who’s going in London for an APM (Associate Product Manager) program? I am!! Am I excited? Yes! Is it thanks to Le Wagon? Definitely!

I taught myself a bit about Product Management in my previous job as a project manager, discovered I loved it and wanted to dive deeper in this career. On job offers, I found out most companies were looking for technical skills and I had a business background. I found trainings, conferences, books, but I wanted expert ‘official’ knowledge that would be recognized as valuable by recruiters. I thought about keeping learning all on my own, but it takes a long time to look online for the best resources and practicing and learning after work on the evening and weekends is not so easy.

Le Wagon is a coding school that provides a solid framework on how tech products are developed: you learn how to code, how developers work (methods, mindset), you learn about user stories, user flows, product design sprint, design tools, UX… Lots of skills that can clearly give you bonus points when applying. Teachers are experts in their field and there is a real culture of excellency: students are very motivated and aim for the best, you work A LOT and you have a lifetime access to online resources that are very very very well-made. I loved that during these 9 weeks (and still after!), everyone was focused on gaining the most out of Le Wagon experience.

About Le Wagon community: it is clearly one of this training’s biggest asset. People are kind, helpful and always happy to share. I found a job thanks to a Le Wagon alumni through our internal Slack just a few weeks after having finished the bootcamp. I’m gonna be a Product Manager on a SaaS and guess what? They used to only hire engineers. But now I do have some technical skills, so I had my chance as well :)

The Wagon is not just a simple coding bootcamp, it is above all an incredible human adventure, which makes it possible to desacralize the world of coding, and to better understand the technological challenges of companies.
The Wagon taught me to better understand the challenges of web development, and to think like a Product Manager.

For several years, I worked as a digital manager in the art market field. At that time, I knew some HTML and CSS but I was a bit frustrated not knowing more.

A few months ago, I decided to learn coding at Le Wagon to gain knowledge about it and be able to develop complex websites. Best decision I made ! It was an amazing experience !

These 9 weeks at Le Wagon were very interesting and intense. I learned to make websites from scratch: back-end, frond-end, database architectures...and I also met lot of great people.

You learn a lot in a short-time, guided by the great staff, always there to help and advise you. You never feel lost ! And the alumni network is very wide, supportive and active all around the world.

I recommend this bootcamp 100% for any person who want to learn coding and boost its career, whether you want to become a developer, a product manager or launch your own project afterwards !

I am a Product Specialist in a big ad tech company, but my background is in business. Taking Le Wagon bootcamp was the best decision I took in 2019, and probably one of the best decisions I took for my career in a while. Let me tell you why.
My role is to help customers make the best of our advertising solutions. Sometimes it can involve some technical discussions with developers, data scientists or even internally with product managers. Before attending the bootcamp, I was feeling limited in the kind of support I could provide to my clients, or in the type of conversations I could lead.
On a more personal level, I was feeling that my learning curve was slowing down. Working in sales, I was also under the impression that I was not necessarily in the right organisation for the type of skills or personality I have; and that it would be harder for me to  stand out and thrive.
Now, taking the bootcamp did not magically solve all these issues. Some are  longer-term questions I need to tackle. But first, I definitely feel savvier at my job. With this new expertise, I can take on more technical projects and look for opportunities to collaborate with tech  teams to extend the scope of my current role.  But the best effect of the training was a bit more subtle yet more dramatic. Taking this step back and proving myself I could learn new skills  made me gain an incredible amount of self-confidence.
Let me just conclude by talking shortly of the program itself. I loved the fact that is was very practical. Little theory, many exercises in pairs with the help of super-friendly Teacher Assistants.
To sum-up, I can only recommend!

Le Wagon has been by far the most intensive and efficient training I ever followed.
Within 9 weeks, I was able to create 2 websites with 2 other members as we learnt more than the basic knowledge of programming in modern languages (html, CSS, js, ruby on rails, SQL).
Now, as a growth marketer I can use those skillset to create basic websites, to expand my usage of CMS and to build automation tools.
To conclude, I highly recommend le wagon not only for wannabee programmers, but also to entrepreneurs, people working closely with tech team and growth marketers/hackers.
Feel free to contact me for more insights.

Deciding to attend Le Wagon is turning out to be one of the most pivotal moments of my life more and more by the day.  Before Le Wagon, I was on a path that I didn’t truly want to be on.  I always had creative ideas, but did not realize how important this would be with regards to my career choice.  I realized as I got older that I wanted to try and make a start-up, but it felt like it was too late for me as I had never studied computer science or written a line of code until fairly recently.  The problem was that I was playing it safe by having decided to go to medical school due to a fear of trying to do what I really wanted to do.  It was a very risky route to commit to, and the security of being a doctor sounded more appealing on paper, for a while at least.  I always would procrastinate and tell myself that I would really follow my passions later, endlessly pushing the entrepreneurial can down the road and while making excuses.  Going further into the medical school route, I began to feel a deep sense regret that I was not doing what I really wanted to do.  I worried that if I were to make it to my deathbed not having tried my true calling, I would regret it more than anything else that could possibly happen in my life.  To keep a very long story short, it was not working out, so I left medical school and eventually ended up at Le Wagon Bali. 

Beforehand, while I was determining which coding program to attend, I researched my options pretty heavily as picking the wrong program could build a broken foundation and set you on a terrible programming trajectory compared to picking the proper one.  Le Wagon appealed to me for several reasons above all of the others.   Compared to the closest equivalent American programs, it was much more affordable for a nearly identical curriculum.  Just as important though, it was the only course I found that maintained an entrepreneurially inspired, product-based framed approach in its curriculum.  With an end goal of wanting to build a startup above all else, this appealed to me above nearly all else.  These factors along with the unanimously amazing reviews, diverse classroom locations, and the seemingly awesome culture fostered by the program were why I decided to eventually apply and enroll.

Let’s be completely honest here, the program is incredibly intense.  It feels as though it moves at nearly light speed to the point where it feels like trying to drink all of the water coming from a fire hydrant.  I prepared myself for the program ahead of time far more than was recommended, and I still found myself struggling often.  There were days that by the time I would get home, I felt completely dejected and would have no confidence in my ability to even complete the program and learn what was required to make a start-up by myself.  I even doubted that the program was legit in its claims at times.  However, throughout the course, they always would tell us to trust them and their process, so my batch and I all did that to help cope with our suffering more effectively.  Keeping the end goal of the reason I left medical school and came to Le Wagon in mind, to make my own start-up ideas get brought to life rather than just dreaming about doing so for the rest of my life, and with the help of the amazing staff and classmates, I persevered until the end when I finally really understood the big picture.  During many parts of the program, it’s admittedly incredibly hard to see the forest amongst the trees.  We spend weeks learning concepts as they stand alone, but it doesn’t all come together in a big picture sort of way until the end when the Rails framework is introduced to us to bring everything that we learn together to create real life apps.  Everything taught to us during the class that is included in the curriculum is there to be taught to us for a reason.  The structure of the program is all very well thought out to teach us what we need to know in the most effective and practical manner.   

It’s important to note again that due to how intense and fast-paced the program is, much of the real learning is achieved during the final weeks of the program.  It’s much more effective to learn these concepts in a practical real-world way by bringing them to work together via developing an actual working product from scratch than it is to learn about them in a stand-alone manner.  They all interact together, which is what makes the product-based approach to Le Wagon so amazing.  Overall, I’m very happy that I decided to join Le Wagon.  The culture that Le Wagon has built is an amazing and inspiring one to be a part of through the suffering and long-days we experienced.  The teachers are really the best.  They are so patient, helpful, and kind.  Many have gone through Le Wagon at some point themselves, so they truly do understand what we are going through.  The resources provided to us as students and alumni are both life-saving and game-changing.  The learning never really ends when it comes to the software universe, and Le Wagon really does an amazing job at providing a solid foundation with which to build upon for the various futures that its alumni wish to create for themselves.  I’m working on bringing an MVP version of my own start-up to life right now as I write this, all thanks to Le Wagon.  I was never able to learn these ideas by myself when I tried to teach everything to myself alone, and I am eternally grateful that Le Wagon was able to help me learn how to do this all.  I feel that Rails is by far the best framework to learn in order to develop a way to bring your own start-up ideas to life quickly and effectively. Ruby is a very beginner friendly programming language to learn as well when starting off too.   I’m grateful that I had a chance to attend Le Wagon, and I would highly recommend it to everyone who is considering enrolling. 

Le Wagon a été pour pour moi une expérience incroyable intellectuellement. En effet, j’y ai appris beaucoup et découvert un domaine qui m’intéressait depuis toujours.  Aujourd’hui grâce au Wagon j’ai les outils pour travailler et évoluer dans le domaine de la tech. Je ne peux que hautement recommander cette formation pour tout futur développeur web ou curieux du web ou de la tech de manière générale.