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Le Wagon is an extraordinary experience, 9 intensive weeks that pass at lightning speed. I am an alumni of the 146 batch of spring ‘18 in Paris.

After 4 years of lead generation for a subsidiary of a cac 40 company, I always wanted to go further and understand what was happening behind the projects once in the hands of technology & developers.

For this reason and to facilitate my interactions with teams of developers, I decided to join Le Wagon.

A few months after the end of Le Wagon I joined Skello, a french startup founded by former Le Wagon alumni to create and structure the Marketing BU.

I really recommend everyone to do this bootcamp: it's the best experience to train, progress, understand, launch your project, iterate, and calmly tackle any new project, not just technical. The quality and relevance of the training is a real plus, as is the alumni network and the global community of Le Wagon.

In short it is the best experience of my last years :)

A 9 week-program is intense but totally worth it. Do not hesitate.

Regarding the program : 

- great content and great platform (kitt) 

- you can access the content after having finished the program --> to keep practicing and learning

- first three weeks are intense but then you get into the rythm

- no need to know how to code before starting the program. The level is more or less even between the students at the end of the 9 weeks

Regarding the people : 

- teachers and staff have different backgrounds which means rich and diverse encounters. They are all accessible, patient and can become good friends

- same thing for the students : diverse backgrounds which is great to broaden your horizons and perspectives on how to do / think things.

Regarding the network : 

- the alumni network is extremely active via slack

- by active I mean : job search / tech awareness / dev tips / ...

I have a strategy consulting background and wanted to study at Le Wagon to acquire tech skills to :

1/ Be autonomous to ship small products / concepts 

2/ Understand what tech people I work with are talking about

==> the program totally matched and surpassed my expectations!

Le Wagon truly changed my life. I was finishing my studies and hadn't any idea what to do next. One month after finishing Le Wagon, I was hired as front-end developer at IBM Watson. Le Wagon gave me the opportunity to understand and create products from A to Z. I am now creating a debate plateform: https://logora.fr/ which couldn't have been without the amazing bootcamp offered. 

I followed the wagon right after my Business School. Thanks to le wagon's pedagogy, I learnt fast how to code and get the most valued skills in the job market today.

More than hard skills, I also learnt a new way to learn and build products. I met great people there and I'm still using this network today, composed by amazing wagoners.

Now, I'm a product manager and even if I'm not a web developer, I do recommend it to any curious person.

In 2019, learning to code is accessible to anyone and no longer reserved for men graduated from engineering schools, Le Wagon offers to anyone this opportunity, it's up to you to seize it ;)

Upon finishing my Bachelor in Histoy at UCL, I found myself at a slight loss possessing no clear career path but a strong desire to diversify my education and widen my professional experiences.

When a friend informed me of Le Wagon, this immediately appeared to me as the perfect first step to kickstart my graduate life. Having always been intrigued by the technology industry but having never had the opportunity to complete any tech-related studies, I was delighted to find an intense program which offered a comprehensive introduction to this thriving industry. The bootcamp’s short duration and focus on expanding not only one’s technical skills but also one’s network aligned perfectly with my desire to obtain a well-rounded initial insight into the world of technology and startups. Furthermore, wanting to travel and experience new cultures, the fact that Le Wagon offered their course in a multitude of major cities attracted me all the more to their program. Deciding to join Le Wagon in Paris, I can safely say that the high expectations I had upon starting the formation were completely surpassed during the 9 weeks. The wealth of knowledge I gained went far beyond simply learning how to code. The insight into entrepreneurship and start-up dynamics coupled with the exposure to an incredible selection of open-minded individuals from all walks of life meant that I spent some of the best months of my life in a highly sociable and stimulating environment.

As cliché as this may all seem, I cannot praise the structure and values of Le Wagon enough. Even if you do not envisage yourself as a professional coder, you will gain invaluable information on the technology industry, which is increasingly omnipresent in our day-to-day lives. Upon finishing the bootcamp, I was offered a job in a thriving French tech-startup, which would have most likely been impossible without the skillset and career assistance I obtained at Le Wagon. I would therefore truly recommend this bootcamp to any curious, open-minded individual who wants to better understand the prevalent world of technology in highly sociable and exciting conditions.

Undoubtedly one of the best training I applied for. 
Le Wagon brought me at the same time a knowledge and a community to learn with, even if I did not aim to be a dev myself.

Le Wagon (or better known as “the Carriage”) is a gleaming triumph of modern-day education in an otherwise bleak and hapless era for education’s role as an engine for social mobility. Le Wagon is not just a 9-week bootcamp: it is a fast-track for anyone with the drive for self-betterment to become a fullstack developer capable of solving any problem, work at any company, and truly make a positive impact on our world.

As for the instruction, I can honestly say that I have never seen a group of more dedicated, thoughtful, and patient instructors than at Le Wagon. I took computer science courses at UC Berkeley (where I got my undergraduate degree in Business), and even the teachers at the #2 Computer Science program in the United States did not compare to the ones at Le Wagon.

As for the resources and classroom materials, Le Wagon has assembled an incredibly robust and intuitive bank of online knowledge that allows students to learn each concept at their own pace. On top of this, they include an amazing depth materiels, so if you find a topic that you like, you can nerd out with the best resources that the internet has to offer.

As for the alumni network, Le Wagon has a vibrant online community of alumni who are willing to help and are constantly posting with new freelance and company-based opportunities.

One thing that I want to emphasize, however, is that Le Wagon does not make you into an incredible developer. It gives you every tool that you need to become an incredible developer. At the end of the day, the bootcamp is not a graded class. You can do nothing, and learn nothing. But I can tell you - those who worked hard, savored every minute of the class, and took advantage of every single resource now have a completely different trajectory in life.Are you ready? Because for those who are, Le Wagon is truly a life changing experience.

I participated in Le Wagon Bootcamp for the January 2019 batch, so I am fresh alumni.

The front wagon:

Before the Bootcamp I spent three years in financial audit, but I needed to find another field.

I had heard about the training through a friend who participated and never saw code before that.

The only thing I had seen approaching a tiny bit of code was Excel formulas (so more or less nothing).

The pendant wagon:

I found the training very well strated.

The pedagogical model was very well thought out (from my point of view) because we are given at the beginning of the day, during a 1h30 course, the main elements for succeeding the exercises of the day.

It is very intensive, but the exercises of the day are made to challenge the students while still having the opportunity to get help from the speakers.

I would say that we learn a logic rather than a simple language, coming out of Le Wagon we know what to look for, how to and where to look for information.

The after wagon:

After Le Wagon I got directly into self-employed (freelance), I was helped for this and for my first missions by the members of Le Wagon present in the facilities.

We have access to the facilities for a month after the training in order to be guided and helped for our beginnings, whether it be as a developer or as a job search or in development of a personal project.

Many interventions during the wagon had also allowed the post-wagon possibilities to be slightly enlarged.

To summarize, I loved learning enormously, working as a team and feeling supported, and above all being challenged daily for 9 weeks.

I joined the Wagon thanks to a friend, Nicolas Schweitzer, who followed the program a year ago.
I’ve been doing the same job for almost 10 years, and I’ve been going around for a while. So I signed up. The goal was not directly to change career. I have always been interested in coding and have taken some basic courses on Khan Academy (HTML, CSS).

So my work agreed to free me on weeknights so I’d be able to follow the lessons of the Wagon. I have all been seduced by the field and especially Le Wagon pedagogy. The course of the days is well thought out and allows to progress quickly.
In the end, out of Le Wagon, I asked for my contractual resignation. Left my job at the end of April, I have a few days as a TA at Le Wagon Paris. I want to continue to train myself (I did the track REACT and do two days this week on VUE JS in a school called SFEIR), and I’d like to try to work freelance to see where it goes.

To summarize: I did 10 years in a great job that brought me a lot. Le Wagon arrived at the right time to give me the impetus to change. To be honest, I dive a little into the unknown but I have the chance not to be forced to resume an activity directly, suddenly I have time to train and I hope that Le Wagon will allow me to evolve in this new activity.

After my studies in Biomedical Science, I visited a technology conference where I realized how important it is to have some technical skills. A friend told me about “Le Wagon”, a coding bootcamp which is famous here in Paris and has the best reputation.

It was a great opportunity to learn how to code with le Wagon. The courses were very well-designed. Every day, we were solving problems with a partner to immediately apply the new knowledge. Every day, I was working with a different person. This way I could get to know almost all of my classmates more closely. Most of my classmates were awesome with all different kinds of backgrounds.

At the end of the bootcamp, we had our own real project with a team. Our project turned out better than we could have dreamed of.

During the bootcamp, I disappeared for all of my other friends. Many evenings, there was a program at le Wagon such as talks and afterworks. And usually at the week end, I was really exhausted and sleeping all day.

Now, I just finished le Wagon and I already sad and miss the team work. I am searching a job as a Ruby on Rails developer to deepen the knowledge learnt at le Wagon (at the moment I prefer coding to medical research). Since I am a bit afraid to forget everything, I review some lectures and exercises (I have lifelong access to videos to all lectures and to all exercises J ). Even now, le Wagon is helping me how to proceed with my job search. Also, I feel optimistic with my new huge network.

In summary: well-designed courses, meeting amazing people and making the impossible possible

One of the most amazing experience of my academic life! The 9-week programm is intense and challenging, and really well designed. Making significant progress day after day makes us feel so proud!

In addition, the peer learning mindset, the great number of events (inspiring talks, networking, parties...) and the quality of the academic team have also contributed greatly to make this learning and human experience highly valuable!

After almost one year, I can experience every day the benefits of Le Wagon bootcamp. I strongly recommend, and I would do it again any time!

Attending Le Wagon in London (batch #222) is one of the best career decisions I have ever made. Having the interest in programming and data, I have been scouting around different coding schools in the city. I have previously attended Flat Iron’s part-time course but wasn’t getting much out of it as they lack teaching support in the London campus and the syllabus wasn’t ready when they launched in the summer of 2018.

The bootcamp life isn’t easy but Le Wagon has the best resources. They have a closely-knit network where everyone genuinely enjoy programming and the community is their key to success. The instructor, TAs, and staff go above and beyond to help you and pay close attention to everyone’s progress and guide us through the journey. The first weeks of bootcamp was really difficult - lecture started at 9 sharp everyday and we worked on various problem sets for the rest day until 5:30 when we started live coding (the lead teacher will pick one student to code in front of the class and of course providing guidance as well). Our typical day ends around 6:30/7pm depending on the workload and it was mentally and physically challenging. After 9 weeks of intense learning, we’re equipped with working knowledge of a junior developer.

Overall, my time at Le Wagon was extremely rewarding and enjoyable. I would not hesitate to recommend anyone who’s considering a career change to tech.

I just finished a marketing master before starting Le Wagon coding bootcamp.
I heard a lot of good reviews about them but I didn't expected that.

It was AMAZING! The team, teachers, people there, are fantastic. It was so good that I almost cry at the end (sound like sex experience but suceed in code is not so far from that ahah)

Today, I'm freelance as a COO of an Agency and Le Wagon and the slack give me this job. Also it gaves me so many opportunities.

This is the best decision you can make in your life.
When you know how to code, the world is yours.

I was the « Marketing guy » for more than 6 years in a startup I co-founded and it was sometimes (a lot of times) frustrating not to be able to understand my co-founders dev problems. That’s why I always wanted to learn how to code. At first, I wasn’t sure Le Wagon was the best choice for me as I still didn’t now if I wanted to fully change career (I still find Marketing really interesting and important).

After discussing with a distant friend who did Le Wagon and talking to the Le Wagon Paris team, I decided to take the leap and attend Le Wagon batch #177 in Paris and boy was it a good idea. I have never experienced such a perfect learning experience (I’ve tried to learn to code online by myself at least 10 times):
- The program is great. Focusing on practice over theory. The exercices are challenging enough but not to difficult so you don’t fall behind.
- The buddy system is perfect: You work with a new person everyday. This allows you to meet everyone and to better learn as you explain the problems to each other.
- The numerous TAs and staffs are there to help you along the way.

What amazed me was the constant care of the team to see if everyone is following the course and all the extra perks to create a great atmosphere between the students (events, lunches, yoga, meet your buddies, …).

Of course, this comes with a cost (both in terms of finance and time) but it is well worth it. I highly recommend it.

Deciding to attend Le Wagon Montreal was one of the best career decisions that I've ever made. 

Like everyone else, I had the option of choosing from various other bootcamps making all sorts of claims, and honestly, I was just looking for a well-reputed coding school that would be effective at teaching and was easy on the wallet. I also did not want to feel cheated out of my money after completing the course, so I began looking up bootcamp after bootcamp and I took my time to look up online-reviews. It was during my research that I discovered Le Wagon. Every person that I've reached out to regarding Le Wagon were all RAVING with positive reviews. Every review I read spoke of an amazing experience that sounded incredible. I couldn't believe it. Every single review? How could it be? My interests deepened as I went to their website and continued to search through-out their curriculum. Something about Le Wagon stood out to me. It felt more entrepreneurially-oriented than the others, which was exactly what I was looking for. I wanted to feel empowered with skills and knowledge that I would be able to use from home and also be equipped with all the tools that I would need. I did not want to simply be able to go job hunting after completing the course. I wanted to be able to start projects on my own. And that is when it happened... The Decision. I chose Le Wagon and it changed my life.

The benefits you get with Le Wagon are real-world necessities. If you have absolutely no coding experience or background, Le Wagon is the bootcamp for you. They provide you with LIFETIME assistance on their KITT platform, and yes, the Alumni and Teachers are active on there. You will have access to valuable information, be able to review information you may have forgotten and discover so much more about the world of coding. They even provide a Career Playbook for you to follow if you decide to make coding a career and they keep you informed about possible job openings and opportunities, whenver available.

The culture at Le Wagon MTL is amazing. We did activities together, went out to eat and drank with each other and even did yoga (I've never done yoga before this). We also have Happy Hours on Fridays when we drank beer and ate pizza. We even sang Happy Birthday for students whose birthdays were during the course. I really felt like a part of the Le Wagon MTL family and community, and that's priceless for students. It is like I always have someone that I can reach out to, if I'm ever in need of help. I am never alone, being part of the Le Wagon. And oh, before I forget... if you enjoy a hot cup of coffee in the morning, Le Wagon offers unlimited cups of coffee. YAY for me.

The bootcamp itseft is intense, so it may feel difficult in the first couple of weeks, but please trust the process. They have a curriculum that builds you in every aspect, not simply teaching you how to code. They provide you with everything you need to succeed and I urge you to take full advantage of everything they will recommend. On KITT, you will have access to Flash Cards to study after class to help you retain what you've learned and alsohave access to pre-recorded videos previewing the next day's lecture. The TA's (Teacher Assistants) are knowledgeable and they enjoy what they do. What I love the most is that, if you're stuck on a challenge and have a question, once you put in a ticket, they won't just utter the answer to your question. They push you to think and develop a way of thinking that will be of benefit to you in more ways than just coding.  In doing so, Le Wagon provides the skills that prepare you for the real-world, such as problem-solving skills and product management and design. You really learn a lot about yourself. I've pushed myself in ways I never imagined. I interviewed a speaker that came to one of the Wagon Talks (it is voluntary), and I also had to pitch an idea, code it from scratch and present it on Demo-Day... our final day of the bootcamp, in front a huge audience.

The working space at Le Wagon MTL is awesome. The people are very polite and treat everyone with respect and it is about 10mins of walking distance from the nearest metro station. They have great food available within walking distance as well.

In a nutshell, Le Wagon is more than a 9 week coding bootcamp. Le Wagon is a community of friendly coders you can always count on.

Being in my early 40's, I considered that I needed to get hands on into coding in order to be more "digital aware" for the rest of my career. This is the reason why I decided to attend to Le Wagon's coding bootcamp.

What I found there perfectly suited my needs: in 2.5 months, I went from no knowledge at all in coding, to a good understanding on how to build a fully functional website, and how all the mechanics behind it works.

These guys at Le Wagon have been very good at designing a great, intensive program, supported by a good technical infrastructure, where you can learn, meet great people and have fun altogether!

I strongly recommand for those who wish to really become more digital savvy or to launch a career in coding.

Le Wagon was an amazing experience, first a human one but also because we left it with so many useful skills for our future. It was easier to adapt ourselves to this new language because we were surrounded from day one with incredible teachers, patient and passionate about coding. I recommend this bootcamp for anyone who would like to change their lives because it did change mine.

I had worked for 8 years before joining Le Wagon: mainly at Amazon in marketing, advertising and product management roles, and for a shorter period of time as Head of Acquisition in a French fintech startup. I have to admit I’ve always been quite intrigued about coding: I tried to learn PHP on my own when I was much younger and then had the opportunity to learn a lot about SQL and VBA at Amazon. A few months ago it became very clear to me that I was becoming less and less passionate about my job and becoming much more interested in the challenges that the dev teams were facing. On top of that I had been working on an entrepreneurial project which required coding skills to move forward.

I chose Le Wagon because of the very positive feedback I found across various websites, and also because two of my friends had already done this bootcamp and highly recommended it to me. As a result I had very high expectations… and I was not disappointed! The curriculums are perfectly designed to teach you new concepts every day that build on top of what you’ve learned the previous day. The staff is super proficient and the overall vibe is extremely positive and energetic. Although the bootcamp is super intense, I enjoyed every single day of it and still can’t believe how much I learned in such a short period of time. I would 100% recommend it to anyone wanting to learn how to code.

I'm a System Administrator who wanted to get into the coding side of things. I have some experience in PHP and Wordpress, so I already knew how to code. One of the reasons I chose Le Wagon was that they taught Ruby on Rails which I had zero experience in, both Ruby as a language and Rails as a Framework (or any framework for that matter).

Overall, I would definitely recommend Le Wagon, whether you have zero coding experience or you're self-taught like me. You spend most of the day doing exercises, which is the best way to keep what you learn. And you won't be alone either. You are paired with another student and they're also well staffed with Teacher Assistants. If you have a question about anything, there was always someone available with minimum wait.

You will also create an app from inception to completion, more than once actually. From User Stories, to mockups, to an actual app. You'll work in a team. You'll collaborate as a team. You'll even learn how to pitch as well. These skills are invaluable and hard to get experience as someone who is self-taught.

Also, once you join Le Wagon, you become part of a larger community of developers all over the world. Stuck on a coding problem? Need interview advice? Moving to another country and need job leads? Ask the community. Once you graduate, you're not forgotten at all. You are still part of their community.

OK, so even though this is just one out of 900+ reviews, Le Wagon deserves all the praises. Again, I highly recommend Le Wagon. As a self-taught developer, you will gain a ton of knowledge and experience, learn to collaborate in a team, create apps from scratch, and belong to an invaluable community of developers. If you are someone who doesn't have coding experience, Le Wagon is your how you get your best foot forward.

From a business background, I’ve always had a profound interest in the tech world. I started working in a startup in Singapore as Growth Marketer. Although I enjoyed this position, I realized that ultimately — no matter how good your marketing strategy is — it always starts with having a great product. For this reason, I decided to move into a Product Manager position to get closer to the product and have a bigger impact on its strategy. This position has been an eye-opener for me as I enjoyed the broad scope of activities that it covers (from customers interviews down to execution and product releases).
However, it also brought my tech skills limitations to light, and I felt frustrated at some point not being able to dive deep enough into the product development issues with my fellow engineers' colleagues.
It is for this very reason that I applied to Le Wagon to gain the tech skills needed to flourish into a Product Manager position.
9 weeks down the road I’m feeling much more confident with my coding skills and decided to start building my own web app — a content-curation tool for Product Managers — as a side project.

In short, Le Wagon has been a life-changing experience for me for the following 3 reasons:

* It totally demystifies web development
* It gives the self-confidence needed to start building my own project
* It gives the opportunity to be part of a great community with various background united around a common passion for tech.