I had a pleasure to chat with my friend Joel Mislav Kunst, who is Engineering Manager at Microsoft. We talked about growth in engineering. Some of the topics that we touched upon, with timeline timestamps are:

00:00:00 - Glimpse of episode

00:01:16 - Quick episode overview

00:05:18 - Joel's journey in software engineering

00:14:55 - Focus on engineering fundamentals

00:23:34 - Learning from all hard experiences: solving root causes

00:31:05 - Relationship between engineer and their manager

00:53:03 - Manager is not your punching bag for complaining: propose initiatives instead, be active

01:10:55 - Engineer vs manager: fork in career

01:29:17 - Generative AI in context of engineering career/growth

01:36:01 - Teaching is essential for growth. Seniors teaching juniors. Knowlede sharing

01:43:14 - Wrap up

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