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❗️Le Wagon stopped paying 20+ staff (and ejects students who ask questions)
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"Le Wagon is not paying teachers in Switzerland. Probably because they are closing the location." 🇨🇭"Thanks for starting this discussion... the teachers and staff in China are also still waiting for ANY form of payment since December." 🇨🇳“Honest review as an alumni & previous teacher assistant… Do not be scammed by them please!” 🇫🇷When you raise anything with them, they threaten you with French Law and legal action... they’re starting to get found out for what they are. 🇬🇧“It really felt that Le Wagon was a business, not a school… Even the campus itself was weird. It was extremely cold, not too well equipped with just a few Ikea tables and not even screens" 🇪🇸“Where do you begin with this place and it’s unqualified teachers and TA’s (these are teaching assistants that are in fact people who just did the last bootcamp and can’t find a real job!)” 🇬🇧
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Le Wagon stopped paying staff in Switzerland and China.
Originally published: 1st March 2024
Last updated: 25th March, 2024SUMMARY- At time of original publication, Le Wagon hadn't paid around 20 teaching staff in Switzerland & China since late 2023- After trying to email the senior team at Le Wagon several times and getting tired of vague info & promises about owed payments, a couple of teachers (former students) took to the alumni Slack of 26k+ global members- The Le Wagon CEO responded, claiming Switzerland & China campuses are closing and promising payments in the next 15 days- Le Wagon remove a student who asks why these campuses were continuing to be displayed/advertised onlineContext: Up until 28th Feb, /lausanne, & /zurich were still functional pages for those campuses, with the /campuses page displaying "stay tuned" for those locations. As of 29/02/24, the Switzerland campuses have now been removed; Shanghai remains)- Le Wagon also remove the original member of staff & ex-student (Switzerland) who started the discussion by asking "Who else is not getting paid by Le Wagon"?--UPDATE 1 (1st March): Porto (EU), Dubai (Asia) and Lima (South America) appear to have paused their next cohorts, as per their website.UPDATE 2 (1st March): Staff in China haven't been paid since December (see screenshots below)UPDATE 3 (24th March): It emerges two students were removed from the alumni Slack group; one an alumnus asking for clarification about their campus closures; the 2nd the original Swiss staff member who started the conversation in the thread below - "Who else is not getting paid by Le Wagon?"--UNEDITED DISCUSSION ON SLACK GROUP:
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RED = Original poster Teacher #1 (later removed from Slack)BLUE = Teacher #2 (former student)GREEN = Ex-student (removed from Slack)GREY = Le Wagon founderHere are messages from the #general channel on the Le Wagon Slack on 28/02/24 and 29/02/24SLACK DISCUSSION (LE WAGON ALUMNI GROUP):
The student who asked that last question was subsequently removed from the Slack group, in addition to Kitt (containing access to all bootcamp resources alumni are contractually promised to have access to indefinitely).UPDATE: The original staff poster from Switzerland has also been removed from Slack & had access to lifelong learning resources revoked.Le Wagon contacted the student from a generic customer-support email on 29/02/24 (they shared the full email with us, excerpt below):"Dear [student name],We are writing to address a serious matter that has come to our attention. It has been brought to our notice that activities potentially breaching both our Terms and Conditions and the Le Wagon Code of Conduct have been conducted through your use of our KITT platforms and dedicated Slack© space.Upon a preliminary review, it appears that your actions may have involved a wrongful gathering and dissemination of community information, alongside serious accusations that could harm the reputation of Le Wagon...In light of these suspicions and in accordance with the provisions set forth in our Terms of Use and in your Training Agreement, we are compelled to temporarily suspend your access to the KITT platform and to the Slack workspace, effective immediately. This action is taken to prevent any further potential damage and to uphold the integrity of our community and services, along with a focused training environment."
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As former students of Le Wagon's web development bootcamp in 2023, in our opinion the bootcamp:1) was mis-sold; using false/misleading job placement data2) with questionable teaching quality; a number of Teaching Assistants were graduates of the bootcamp, with little or no professional experience working as developers in any company (aside from freelance work)3) and little in terms of support; personal or professional, offered both during and post-bootcamp--We were confused by our experience - one which no one else seemed to be talking about on the review sites or in the alumni Slack group.The bootcamp industry is unregulated -- and we feel that bootcamps like Le Wagon are taking advantage of this.We wanted to speak up.A (growing) group of former Le Wagon students 🌍
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Le Wagon is one of the biggest coding bootcamps in the world with 40+ campuses worldwide. They boast about being the #1-rated bootcamp. We only saw pages and pages of glowing reviews online...Many of us who took a Le Wagon bootcamp had a completely different experience. After the course, our messages to Le Wagon to air our disappointment, grievances and concerns were ignored or dismissed.Sadly, the multi-million-pound bootcamp industry is unregulated. Somewhere along the line, this became about more than us. Which is why we put this site together.We've compiled reviews for Le Wagon by ex-students from the UK 🇬🇧, France 🇫🇷, Spain 🇪🇸, Germany 🇩🇪 and around the world 🌍.Please share this site with others who might benefit.We'd like to appear further up on Google searches, so more folks discover it and avoid making a decision they might later regret.=> If you have a moment, type in "reviews for Le Wagon" (or something similar) on Google, scroll to lewagonreviews.com and then click on the link