> I was sometimes assigned stories no one else on the team had done anything like before, so at times I couldn't even ask the senior devs for help.
This is wrong thinking on your part. You 100% should be asking senior devs for help with these things. The skill of a senior isn't that they've done something before, but that they know how to approach new problems. So you're asking them for help in, how should I be thinking about this new problem, or how would you try to approach this problem?
If your senior devs can only go do things they have done before, then you actually don't have any senior devs at your company, you just have a lot of junior devs who've been working for many years. So, at that point, I'd recommend looking for a company that does have senior devs, that you can learn from.
This is wrong thinking on your part. You 100% should be asking senior devs for help with these things. The skill of a senior isn't that they've done something before, but that they know how to approach new problems. So you're asking them for help in, how should I be thinking about this new problem, or how would you try to approach this problem?
If your senior devs can only go do things they have done before, then you actually don't have any senior devs at your company, you just have a lot of junior devs who've been working for many years. So, at that point, I'd recommend looking for a company that does have senior devs, that you can learn from.