Le Wagon

After many years in the oil and gas industry I’ve choose to reskill and learn how to code in a modern way. I did many researchs and alumni interviews before fixing my choice on le Wagon. The program and especially the teaching tools are awesome, everything is done to make you learn in a pleasant bootcamp spirit. I basically started with nothing and finished the bootcamp with a project, a goal, new skills of course an entrepreneur spirit.

I’m now willing to join a startup to learn more skills and become a freelance later.

Right after my studies, I decided to join Le Wagon thanks to a training I did in San Francisco that got me interested in learning how to code.
Honestly, I did not expect that I would love it that much !

My goal was simple, I knew that our studies were missing an important thing. We were taught to launch projects, to run a company, to do marketing etc but nothing on the importance of the web and applications. Which company does not have a website, wether it is to introduce its activity or to interact with its users? For me, it was not possible to stop my studies there.

It was 2 months where you learn many complex principles but with a very clear method. I was tough at times but after a while you get used to it and the logic falls into place.

The teaching method is just perfect. A teacher introduces the important concepts, followed by hands-on exercices to practice with teaching assistants to help you out and a livecode at the end of the day. At the end of the 2 months, you have to create a real web app from scratch ! In the end, you get all the tools needed to succeed.

However, it doesn't stop here. And to be honest, the most difficult part is after the training when you can feel lonely when facing problems by yourself without teachers around you. Le Wagon has well understood this and provides a real and strong community, with a lot of mutual help thanks to a super active Slack and coworking spaces. 
Thanks to all of that, I could live my "post-bootcamp" life up to my expectations. Because as developers, we never stop learning.

Today, I am a freelance Fullstack developer and I launched a web agency on the side where work on the Back-end side. And as the web has no boundaries, I have been living abroad in different places across Europe and Asia for more than a year and I keep learning with online tracks such as React and vue.js.

Having read the reviews of former alumnis, I got exactly what I was expecting: my intention was to get enough tools to draft an idea, and then being able to interact efficienltly with developers the day I would launch my own projects. While I spent the first weeks doubting I could ever draft an app, the project week proved me wrong, and with the help of my teammates, class mates, and the community of le Wagon's alumnis, I am now confident I can do it! The methodology is impressively well done and well thought. The rythm (intense, without being overwhelming), the energy, the team, without forgetting the location, made that experience fit my high expectations, and I would definitely recommend anyone to choose le Wagon, and especially Le Wagon Rio, what a blast!

My name is Marcus and I have an economics/finance background. 

After working in the financial market in Rio (my hometown) and in a global consulting firm both in Brazil and Australia, I decided it was time for a change - the idea of starting my own business to help solving one of Brazil’s many problems simply got stuck in my head. I quit my job in Australia and came back to Rio to start putting the plan to motion. 

Several months passed by and I was struggling to decide which idea to pursue. I was also not able to find a friend to be my technical cofounder. Then, a couple of friends suggested me to study at Le Wagon, as it would give me the basic skills to work on my mvp and meet people some amazing people. Sounded good, so I jumped in. 

The bootcamp was really good and I was gladly surprised with the amount of stuff I learned in such a short period of time. I also did meet a lot of interesting and fun people. :)

Now I just started my own project (www.vagazap.com), a web app to help workers connect with companies with available jobs in a practical way. I would strongly recommend Le Wagon! :)

I enrolled at Le Wagon as part of my last year at HEC, in Entrepreneurship Major, where I wanted to acquire key technical skills and develop my product knowledge, two essential topics in order to launch a company and that are not really covered in business School.

Le Wagon curriculum is extremely well constructed and interesting. Each day, you follow a new lesson before practicing with another student through exercices. The day ends with a "debrief" group. The days follow each other quickly, each focusing on a specific technical subject.

It is a real pleasure (and a achievement!) to keep such a learning curve throughout the 9 weeks, in an incredible atmosphere of exchanges and mutual help.

Since the end of the Wagon, I try to continue this learning through MOOCs or freelance work missions and intend to join a startup to become a product manager soon

Le wagon is an impressive experience for people like me who wants to learn to code ; in less than 3 months, we learn all what is necessary to well understand front-end, back-end and database issues. It's a very efficient way of learning with both theory and practise through exercices and usecases. All of them are also available online (for life for the alumni !). Le Wagon has skyhit all my targets and represents an essential asset in my everyday job as a tech entrepreneur and freelance consultant in digital transformation. I highly recommend the journey, it will change your professionnal life !

After graduating from Law School, I joined a Business School because I was more and more interested in entrepreneurship. After graduating from Business School, I wanted to launch two web projects but I did not have enough technical skills. That's why I joined Le Wagon Paris : learning to code was a way to become autonomous, allowing me to create the first versions of the products I had in mind. At the beginning, I just saw Le Wagon as a step to achieve my goals. But it turned out to be much more than that!! I did launch my two projects but I also loved Le Wagon's experience so much that I am now a Teacher Assistant at Le Wagon Paris. Right now, I could not ask for a better job than teaching and working on my personal projects. Thank you so much to Le Wagon's team for this life-changing experience!!

I consider myself a creative person and I am a hard-worker energy engineer who wants a zero carbon future. I have spent the last 6 years applying innovation to sustainable energy and I came to the point where I realised my skills were not enough, they were not future-proof. On the one hand I was talking how the digital world was disrupting energy and I was selling this, however I had not idea how tech was actually achieving this disruption. On the other hand I have always had many ideas and I could not transform them in anything else but boring power points. I knew I needed to learn to code. A friend recommended Le Wagon. I spent weeks reading about Bootcamps, benefits, disadvantages, and I was surprised how many good reviews Le Wagon had, to be honest I was even a bit skeptical. And here I am writing my review… I am truly grateful for how much I learn in these 9 weeks, I was afraid of that black window called the Terminal which I had never used in my life, and today I can use 4 of those at the same time. I lead a team of 3 developers using Agile methodology, and I am really proud to say I am a tech energy engineer, I can speak the language and understand the challenges (APIs, data structures, TDD, etc.). Le Wagon truly changed my life for the better, I can prototype my very own ideas and is such a powerful skill. The bootcamp teaches you all what you need to keep learning. Their methodology, support, environment and good vibes makes it unique. No need to hesitate, just take the jump, it is worth it.

I attended the LW coding bootcamp (batch #209 in Tel-Aviv) and can honestly say that deciding to do LW was the best decision I made in 2018. If you're interested in problem solving or are a very visual person like myself, you'll love this coding bootcamp. It provides both in abundance. My main reason for doing the bootcamp and giving up my job was because I wanted more of a hard skill to complement my soft-skills. 

I am very happy that I did in Tel-Aviv. The people running the show there are fantastic. They really cared about our development and put in a lot of extra efforts to make us get the most out of it. In addition, the country is worth visiting, which you'll have time for during the weekends. Overall, I would highly recommend what I did to anyone else (at least if you're doing it for the right reasons -> interest, like doing something technical, and willing to solve problems)

Le Wagon does live up to its slogan "Change your life, learn to code". I’m a oceanography student and a employee in a laboratory at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), one of the biggest universities in Brazil. I used to work basically with data analysis using Python, but we needed someone to work with I.T. One day I was sitting in my chair at my job and my boss just came to me asking if I would like to do Le Wagon (she knows that I love to code). In the beginning I was not really interested because the batch would start in my vacation (so no vacation...), but I started to search about the course and read reviews and then got excited! This was the time that I started batch #230 at Le Wagon in Rio de Janeiro. The bootcamp was hard, intense, painful and one of the best experiences in my life. The days that I spent at Le Wagon learning how to code can not be compared with anything. At the end of the batch, all students were amazed about what we could build with the knowledge acquired in the 9-week-program. Le Wagon will treat you as family and in the end you will look at classmates, teachers and staff in the same way. I will miss really hard Le Wagon, because you always miss your family. Thank you guys, for everything.