Le Wagon

Its been 5 years since I quit my job to be a full time mom. When I was deciding what to do next I was unsure where to begin. I was an application developer for many years before but was not confident if I would be able to pick it up from where I left off. I thought about other career options but kept coming back to what I enjoyed the most: developing exciting products and learning new technical skills to help me do that. Around this time I moved to Barcelona and was actively looking for ways to get started. Initially, I was applying for jobs and doing online trainings to test my abilities and upgrade my skills. I was neither getting any feedback nor learning much. I wanted to engage with like-minded people and look for places where I could be mentored. Thats when I came across Le Wagon Barcelona. It was the best rated coding schools and the alumni testimonials made my decision easier.  
During my first interview with the founder I was asked what do I expect from this bootcamp. I replied saying at this point I want to learn and absorb as much as possible. In the 9 weeks that followed thats exactly what happened. We spent less time on lectures and more time doing hands on exercises with mentors helping us every step of the way. Each day we worked with a new partner and this made us adapt to different working styles and also interact with them individually. Some days were harder making us question if we were doing enough. But when you work with a bunch of highly motivated individuals from various backgrounds you push yourself. And by the end of the course we were  proudly presenting our product demos. 
The bootcamp was not about how much we did or how quick we were. It was for each one of us to commit ourselves to learn something new everyday and enjoy the process of coding. Isnt that always the best way to learn? This couldnt have been possible without all the teachers and mentors who made us believe we could do this. It feels like we are part of this big family who will be rooting for us to succeed in anything that we choose to do.  I know I can always reach out to the alumni groups for advice and basically exchange ideas. Honestly, thats more than what I signed up for. Currently I am working with a friend on his startup TraininTech. It is a platform that helps companies train the key soft skills of their employees using an engaging solution. Users will not only be able to see the content but record their responses for realistic situations to get feedback and track their evolution. Going forward I plan to explore opportunities as a full stack developer and pursue my career goals.

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!

I'm an internet professional with more than 10 years of experience in digital analytics, growth and product optimization.
I've spent several years working for top tech start-ups in Barcelona; and last 3 launching my own projects working as a freelance and bootstrapping entrepreneur. 

I really wanted to learn the basics of coding in order to improve my working relationship with developers, as a big part of my duties include dealing with tech specs and working closing with them; and also to gain more independence when tackling my own projects. 

Le wagon has definitely been the perfect choice for me, as it allowed to dig deep into software development basics and get the fundamentals in order to be able to program my own digital products.

It was also an amazing opportunity to get in touch with an amazing group of motivated and talented individuals during a nine weeks learning process.

I'd definitely recommend it to anyone looking forward to adding this highly valuable skill-set to their abilities. 

Hey I am Alex,
Before I joined Le Wagon for the 9-weeks bootcamp, I studied Business administration at a business school in Germany. During my studies I always wanted to learn coding but never found the time to do so. Therefore, I decided to apply for Le Wagon during my Gap Year, to close the gap between business and Tech.

The nine week program really helped me to learn the fundamentals of coding from Scratch and build two complete products in a very short time. After the bootcamp I continued to work further on my Business background by doing an internship in a Private Equity firm, and I am planning to do an internship in a Tech company to apply the knowledge I learned at Le wagon.

Le Wagon was an experience of a Lifetime, I highly recommend it!

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!

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 
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Before joining Le Wagon, I worked in the music industry as an audio engineer in Los Angeles. I spent most of my time in a recording studio, working with different types of artists. Though I had fulfilled a goal that I was working towards for many years, it was apparent that I was ready to apply my creativity in a different way. On my search for my next calling, I came upon coding. Just by making a simple HTML page with a bit of CSS, I knew how much power lie within coding. I knew it was something I had to take seriously.   I began looking into coding bootcamps. Being from the states, the coding bootcamp market was quite saturated and dense. It’s tuition price tag was no joke. I began looking abroad and Le Wagon came up as the top school. They had a location in my favorite city, Barcelona. It was also half the cost of the top bootcamps in the states. I decided it was a good chance to gain a skill in a beautiful city. Now, 9 intensive weeks, two finished and shipped products later, I can confirm that it is a truly life changing experience. Joining Le Wagon is like being welcomed into a family. It is established on day one that once you’re in, it is the culture to achieve together. It made being in a foreign city, where I don’t speak the language, feel more like home.   The most valuable thing I gained from going through Le Wagon is being able to work alongside a team. Completing a project from nothing to a shipped product in two weeks with just 4 team member is intense. It almost seemed impossible. But at some point, I just learned to trust my team members and the process of the bootcamp. That experience of compromise and negotiation when working with people from all different backgrounds is what gave me confidence when applying for jobs.