What turned me to Soham’s course is the way he talked about the course as not a substitute for hard work, not a “cheat sheet” of questions but a way to actually get good at algorithms, through a lot of perspiration. The course is very intense…practice, practice, practice. And it works!.... All that practice had a long-lasting effect on my ability as a software engineer. I am simply faster at coding than I ever was…. I can keep focused on the idea if the implementation takes a few minutes as I don't get lost on implementation details anymore, so the productivity increase I experienced is greater than just the delta in time for the implementation itself.