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Joanne - ★☆☆☆☆

6 months ago

Unprofessional & misleading - avoid at all costs Le Wagon has been an absolute disappointment. I have never dealt with an organization so unprofessional and lacking in credibility. From April, I was in constant contact with their admissions specialist, Geetha, about joining the September full time bootcamp. For months, I was strung along with reassurances while the course was quietly postponed multiple times without transparency. As September came, I pushed several times to confirm if the course would actually proceed. Each time, I was told yes. Yet the contract kept getting delayed, and only landed in my inbox two weeks before the supposed start date. When I asked for clarity on the repeated delays, my emails were met with silence — until I was abruptly told that the admissions specialist no longer even worked there. Finally, the city manager, Ashley Yeo, took over and admitted the truth on behalf of their organization: they had funding issues and the bootcamps were cancelled for the year. This could and SHOULD have been communicated months earlier, but instead I was misled right up until the last minute. This wasn’t just an inconvenience. I was making serious life decisions around this course — including leaving my job. The lack of honesty and respect for students’ lives is shocking. Le Wagon wasted my time, energy, and trust. I would strongly warn anyone considering them: do not risk it. They have shown zero accountability and absolutely no regard for the impact on their prospective students.

Faris Chew ★★★★★

2 years ago

I joined Le Wagon's full-time web development course in 2023 (batch 1160) and I had a great experience. The teachers are knowledgable and are always ready to give a helping hand if needed. With their guidance, the complex and intense curriculum was easier to digest and understand. Post-course, the Le Wagon team is also helpful in getting us prepared to land our first tech job - and I'm happy to be able to secure a job. Thank you Le Wagon! :)

Xin Er Chong ★★★★★

3 years ago

My fellow classmates will agree with me that the Le Wagon data science bootcamp is a very intensive yet satisfying experience. A typical day in Le Wagon starts with a 1.5 hour lecture where the lecturer explains the theoretical concepts of the codes we use and demonstrates how we use it to do different things. Then, we will be assigned to our buddies through a buddy pairing system to complete the challenges of the day together. When we were stuck at certain challenges, we would ask for help from lecturer or teaching assistant through a ticketing system. At the end of the day at 5pm, there will be a recap session where we will practice live coding together to revise the codes and concepts which we learned throughout the day. If you think that is the end, you are so wrong, because as we reach home at 8pm, there will be a message on Slack to remind us to complete the flashcards as revision of the key concepts learned during the day. There are many things that I like about Le Wagon. The lecturers are very knowledgeable yet friendly, and they go beyond what is required to ensure we understand the topics fully. The buddy pairing system was great as it helped us cover each other’s blind spots when we complete the challenges together. Towards the end of the bootcamp, we were required to complete a team project, which we had to come up with the project ourselves. This enabled me to piece together all the different parts of the bootcamp and apply it into practical use. The project that my team came up with was DDI, which uses machine learning to predict the possible side effects that two drugs may interact and cause to our body. The skills taught are very practical and usable once we graduate from the bootcamp, so we were able to search for jobs or start our own projects directly after the bootcamp. However, I think the most valuable thing that Le Wagon provides is the network of students and teachers, as well as the learning resources. Even when we completed the bootcamp, we will still have access to the massive pool of learning resources which are provided during the bootcamp itself. The school has over 15000 alumni from different parts of the world, and all of us can be reached via slack. Different slack channels are also created to support the alumni in terms of job search, career consulting, discussion etc. The school even organised a career week post bootcamp to ensure that we have a good head start at looking for jobs. During this week, alumni and top management of tech companies are invited to give talks about the job market and what skills are in demand for the roles that are related to our career pathway. There were also workshops to guide us for crafting our CVs/cover letters/Linkedin/Github and portfolio pages. The school even went into networking with hiring partners so that we have a better chance in the job market compared to other bootcamp graduates. The tremendous effort in supporting us from start till end is what touched me the most. During the bootcamp itself, some of the skills that are taught include data sourcing such as SQL, API and web scraping, data preparation and exploration such as data cleaning using Pandas, data visualisation using matplotlib and seaborn, machine learning such as linear regression and logistic regression, classification and decision trees, as well as ARIMA for time series data, deep learning for image and natural language processing, as well as data engineering using bash, MLFlow and deployment using Google Cloud Platform. As far as I know, Le Wagon is the only data science bootcamp that spends one whole week teaching deployment, where other schools only allocates one or two days for the module. This is because they found out that data engineering and deployment skills are demanded more and more from data scientists. This also shows that Le Wagon cares about us students and always make sure that the skills taught during the bootcamp are relevant to what is used in the current market. We also learned how to build simple websites using Streamlit to showcase our projects.

SP ★★★★★

2 years ago

My experience at Le Wagon has been great. It was a challenge learning how to code, but the teachers were patient and helped us a lot. I also like that the curriculum is very product-oriented. After we finished the bootcamp, Le Wagon also helped us to prepare for finding a job by arranging for external career advisors and alumni to come in and share their advice and experiences.

Abdul Rafi ★★★★★

3 years ago

You won’t go wrong with Le Wagon. Le Wagon is one of the best things that ever happened to me. Coming from a background in law enforcement, I was keen to make a mid-career switch to future-proof myself and become a better version of myself by stepping out of my comfort zone. To make this review succinct and helpful to future boot campers, I will address questions that are likely to pop up in your head. Q1: Why did I choose Le Wagon instead of other bootcamps in Singapore? To me, Le Wagon won in many aspects. First, it is transparent - you get to see projects created by students week after week on YouTube, which shows that there's nothing to hide. Second, it is competitively priced, especially after government subsidies. Finally, the full-time, classroom-based programme was crucial for me to learn effectively and build lasting friendships with my classmates. Q2: Did I get a job after graduation? Yes, I got a job as a ReactJS developer with one of Le Wagon's hiring partners within a week after graduation. This is a testament to the high regard that companies have for Le Wagon. Q3: Do I feel well-equipped after going through Le Wagon? Le Wagon teaches Ruby on Rails, which I believe provides a solid foundation to the world of programming without the risk of getting lost. Additionally, Ruby on Rails is the perfect full-stack framework for boot campers, as it allows for easy and quick web application building. The experience of working on projects as a team was invaluable, as it prepared me for working with Agile and Git in my current job. Q4: What have I gained in perpetuity? I have gained lifelong friends, access to a strong Le Wagon Slack community, an up-to-date learning platform (Kitt) that remains with me forever, and a network of alumni who are part of the tech industry. Q5: Has Le Wagon Singapore changed my life? If it instills a love for coding and helps make your dreams come true, then yes, it has changed my life.