A truly wonderful system, complete with methods and follow up exercises that help you realize the focus that is needed to excel in your professional life. A lucid flowing style makes sure you grasp and retain everything that is said. Distinguishing yourself is the key to being noticed, remembered and respected in this world. This book is the Bible when it comes to building your own "Personal Brand".

Learn the ways to change yourself internally and change the way you perceive and interact with the world. Jumpstart your future professional life. Practice what is said and you will truly see a difference in your life.

Distinguish yourself, for if you don't, you will fade away and drown in the sea of "cliched existence".

Rajesh Setty's "Beyond Code" is a deceptively simple prescription for getting out of the rut of today's complex workplace. As a career coach I see many clients, especially from high-tech who feel lost, stressed out, and hopeless. This simple book (not just for those from high-tech) can change their outlook on how they can learn to manage with what is already available to them in abundance: Their own internal resources! If those who feel "unplugged" in today's indifferent world, they can simply change their outlook by following the nine potent steps outlined and beautifully illustrated in Shetty's book! Bravo!

Dilip Saraf
Career and Life coach

Rajesh Setty's 'Beyond Code' is a book that anyone in the IT industry must read. Even if you are not from IT, you will find it reveling. You connect to Rajesh's thoughts immediately from page one and never stop thinking about what he has to share all through the book.

Most of the headings and highlighted sentences appear common sense to you, though the explanation that follows depicts thoughts that have come out of experiences, tried and tested. The connection is immediate and long lasting. Rajesh explains why book reading is so important even if you think you know what it teaches you. I appreciate Rajesh sharing his real life experiences and the 'suggested' reading list at the end of the book. Books are life transforming indeed.

The author clearly makes his experiences, ideas and thoughts by categorizing the 'inner game' and the 'outer game' in the pursuit of 'distinguishing yourself'.

My favorite parts of the book are, 'My Story', 'Likability' and 'Lead'.

I strongly recommend reading this book if you believe in the idea that 'you learn from other's experiences, not to spend precious time learning from your own experiences'.

I would have loved to read and learn more and more of real life professional experiences of the author, all of 'highs' and 'lows'. May be I call for a sequel to 'Beyond Code'.

Beyond Code provides advice on how to differentiate yourself. Make your customers happy, communicate well, keep learning... the pieces of advice are good but common sense. They have already been covered in other books. I recommed Working With Emotional Intelligence and The 12 Bad Habits That Hold Good People Back.

Given the title of the book I expected practical information targeted at software engineers. But the book does not provide examples related to software. Instead we read about the author writing his first novel at age 13. While this would make good writing in an autobiography, it leaves me cold. Many programmers are introverted (INTJ types). Surely there is specific advice that can be provided to that group.

If Beyond Code is the first book you read about personal development, you will find it useful. If you have already read other books there is nothing of interest in it. As the author says: you have to differentiate yourself or be commoditized. It is too bad he didn't apply the idea to the book by targeting it more carefully.

Even though this books targets to distinguish yourself in the technology professional world, it does not limit there. Its highly essential for any person to distinguish himself or herself almost in any domain on both personal and preofessional front.

My favorite chapters were likeability, leave lasting impression, leverage and listen!

The best part of this book is it asks to you to implement whats written in the book. These theories are highly practical. The books is highly adoptable.