Joel Mislav Kunst: Engineering Career and Growth | Ep. 2

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 episode00:01:16 - Quick episode overview00:05:18 - Joel's journey in software engineering00:14:55 - Focus on engineering fundamentals00:23:34 - Learning from all hard experiences: solving root causes00:31:05 - Relationship between engineer and their manager00:53:03 - Manager is not your punching bag for complaining: propose initiatives instead, be active01:10:55 - Engineer vs manager: fork in career01:29:17 - Generative AI in context of engineering career/growth01:36:01 - Teaching is essential for growth. Seniors teaching juniors. Knowlede sharing01:43:14 - Wrap upTo get notified of new episodes and blog posts, subscribe at MapForEngineers.comFor Youtube video version of the episode, check https://www.youtube.com/@mapforengineers This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit log.mapforengineers.com