alt Hacker NewsI struggle with this a lot. I'm currently about ten years in to the career and technically at my org I'm a "senior".
One issue I have quite often is I'll know I have a problem with understanding something and so I ask my team but then the response can be something like "you should know X" or "you should know this because of Y context" and it can be discouraging. I think a lot of the time I notice people conflate experience level with amount of context I have with something.
I'm still struggling with these kinds of challenges and I would readily admit it could be my own weakness but I also wonder if it's a team culture issue; but I've noticed this across my current org and my last one so maybe it's more of a me-problem.
> [...] the response can be something like "you should know X" or "you should know this because of Y context" and it can be discouraging.
This is definitely a cultural problem. You should get clear and non-judgmental answers to questions like these, because it should be regarded as absolutely normal that you can’t keep everything in your mind, or that you may have missed some context.
In a culturally healthy org, everybody supports each other.