I was offered by a company the Data Science and AI bootcamp at Le Wagon (online, full time). After taking the course, I get a job in the company.
I have read plenty of threads that say that Le Wagon is a scam, that the pace of the content is awful, poor student atention…
My level of programming is good since I’ve been programming the last 4 years, but my maths level is not high. I didn’t take a degree in maths or data science, i just did Science Bachiller in Spain and after that, web and apps development. (Not a bad math student but also not a genius)
My question is, since the company pays me the bootcamp/course, should I take this opportunity at Le Wagon? Does it take a high level of maths? Should I talk to them and propose other alternatives? If its so, what are the options?
A bunch of people say that its a scam but also many other say that its not that bad, so I don’t know what to do!
Even though I’m not very experienced in the programming world, this sounds suspicious to me. How do they know you’re going to be qualified after taking their bootcamp? There’s no guarantee every bootcamp graduate is going to job ready, no matter how good that bootcamp might be.
I don’t know. It just doesn’t seem like something I would do if I was running a company: promising jobs in advance to learners before they take the course. Sounds like an extremely effective way to hire incompetent employees.
Good old classic learning off of long MDN articles, fCC projects and making cool Github repos sounds a lot safer, IMO.
Ask them if they have employees that took their offer. Tell them that you would like to contact them, maybe they can help you trough the bootcamp. In the end they will be your future teammates, why not get in contact with them now?
You should quickly find out what this company is about just by their reaction to your request.
Le Wagon might be offering the company something in return. I wouldn’t put it passed them to reach out to companies and offer deals in return for more students.
As such, it sounds sketchy at best. But depending on the contract you can negotiate and written guaranties they can’t legally break, it could also mean a free Bootcamp and a job with some guarantied amount of employment.
I would definitely look into some more and ask some critical questions before agreeing to anything.