[gaius]

and you know I have extra domain knowledge specific to this role

Funny story, at a previous employer people who had been there 10+ years, would always say, it takes 3 years to really hit your stride in this company. They meant the time taken to have made the contacts and established the reputation that you could really be effective, be trusted with important decisions, and so on. It was a vast company and operated on multi-year cycles was a large part of the reason.

But the average tenure of an engineer at this company was 2.5 years...