Reflection: My eighth year at GitLab and working on Product Operations reporting to the Chief of Staff to CPMO

It’s about 2 months early for my 8 year work anniversary reflection. However, my work situation has changed, and it feels like the right time to be reflecting on the past (almost a) year.

It’s interesting that 8 years sounds like a long time, but since I’ve changed divisions a couple of times, it also doesn’t feel super long. Definitely hard to believe it’s been ~2.5 years since I left Support, but I still have coffee chats with all the new team members! (And I’m still waiting for that t-shirt.)

Also intriguing, there are still 65 at the company that started before me, so almost one quarter of the people from when I started. That’s quite good after 8 years.

If you want to know what happened in previous years, take a look at the other reflection posts. Continue reading “Reflection: My eighth year at GitLab and working on Product Operations reporting to the Chief of Staff to CPMO”

Reflection: Second half of my seventh year at GitLab and doing Strategy & Operations for Product (and Engineering)

This week is my seventh anniversary at GitLab, and it’s still a little hard to believe. At this point, there are 82 people who started before me and are still at the company. That’s actually pretty good, 7 years later, when there were about 275 people when I started, so about a third are still here.

If you want to know what happened in the first half of the year, check out my previous reflection post. Continue reading “Reflection: Second half of my seventh year at GitLab and doing Strategy & Operations for Product (and Engineering)”

Reflection: First half of the seventh year at GitLab and digging into Strategy & Operations

Hard to believe it’s already just over a year in the “new” role and 6.5 years at GitLab. If you’re interested in an explanation of my current role/team and what I was working on in the first 6 or so months, check out my previous reflection post. Continue reading “Reflection: First half of the seventh year at GitLab and digging into Strategy & Operations”

Reflection: The second half of my sixth year at GitLab and learning Strategy & Operations

Hard to believe it’s been 6 years, and I certainly didn’t imagine working outside of Product and Engineering at any point until it happened. Check out the last reflection post if you’re wondering what happened in the first half of the sixth year, namely how I wrapped up my work in Support, and moved to the Chief of Staff to CEO Team, now called the Office of the CEO (OCEO). Continue reading “Reflection: The second half of my sixth year at GitLab and learning Strategy & Operations”

Reflection: The first half of my sixth year at GitLab: helping other (Support Engineers) and leaving Support

It’s a bit mind boggling to me that I’m talking about my sixth year at GitLab. It’s not quite been half (5 months), but as I’m internally transferring out of Support, I thought this was a good place to break up “the year”.

First time readers may want to check out my previous reflection posts. Continue reading “Reflection: The first half of my sixth year at GitLab: helping other (Support Engineers) and leaving Support”