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Discussion on: Three months into my new job: an honest review of Le Wagon bootcamp

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@etienneburdet pretty accurate review. Although i must add that things might be very different depending on the City u attend. My group had 8 people and i am the only one coding ( 2 of them students, 2 of them pass time hiatus kind of thing and the rest just bored wives/girls with rich boyfriends/husbands that were bored at home). It was pretty clear since the first weeks of the bootcamp who was there to learn and who wasn't. At the beginning of 8th week, i had a project-mate who did not know how to write a if/else statement, how to open rails console or even how to search for a bug on google/stackoverflow. Completley waste of money and time for them, and for me i might add, since this was the general level of the class, teachers had to go slower and explain simple and basic stuff every day, thus cutting away from the time of learning new stuff. None of my colleagues did even 20% of the pre-btoocamp "mandatory" courses. I am still happy i did the bootcamp because the time and money investment pushed me into working hard before during and after the bootcamp to get to a ready to hire level. So if i would to do it again, i would still do Le Wagon but make sure to go to a city with more students in a group and good teachers.