I’m David Knott. I’ve been working in enterprise technology for over forty years and I’m still learning. This blog is based on mistakes, failures, lessons and some things I find interesting:
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Are you new here? Lessons learnt from many new starts
I joined Google on 7th September 2020, so I’ve just celebrated my six month Google-versary! As well as being a fascinating experience at a very strange time, passing this milestone prompted me to reflect on my experience in other new roles and new companies. I’ve changed jobs many times in my career and, although Google is different from most companies I have worked for, I have been through many of the same thoughts and feelings, highs and lows as I have experienced in other places. I thought that it might be useful to share some of the lessons I have learnt, in the hope that they can help other people moving into new roles.