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I’m in an environment where technical ability seems to be judged heavily by how familiar you are with the company’s business logic.

The problem is that a lot of this logic is specific business knowledge context held by a few senior people with 15+ years of experience in same organisation It isn’t obvious from the code or queries, and documentation is either missing or incomplete. Asking for documentation—or offering to document what I learn, doesn’t seem to get much traction.

At the same time, using an LLM to help trace code, queries, or reconstruct some of that context is frowned upon, and there’s an expectation that LLM usage should be tagged on deliverables.
So it feels like a strange catch: you’re expected to already know undocumented context, and not knowing it can be interpreted as weak technical ability, but the mechanisms for independently closing that knowledge gap aren’t really encouraged.

Has anyone dealt with this kind of culture? How do you distinguish actual technical competence from simply having years of accumulated company-specific knowledge, and how do you navigate it without constantly depending on the same gatekeepers?

I’m in an environment where technical ability seems to be judged heavily by how familiar you are with the company’s business logic.

The problem is that a lot of this logic is specific business knowledge context held by a few senior people with 15+ years of experience in same organisation It isn’t obvious from the code or queries, and documentation is either missing or incomplete. Asking for documentation—or offering to document what I learn, doesn’t seem to get much traction.

At the same time, using an LLM to help trace code, queries, or reconstruct some of that context is frowned upon, and there’s an expectation that LLM usage should be tagged on deliverables.
So it feels like a strange catch: you’re expected to already know undocumented context, and not knowing it can be interpreted as weak technical ability, but the mechanisms for independently closing that knowledge gap aren’t really encouraged.

Has anyone dealt with this kind of culture? How do you distinguish actual technical competence from simply having years of accumulated company-specific knowledge, and how do you navigate it without constantly depending on the same gatekeepers?

Okay so this has been on my list forever — always wanted to learn shooting properly, not the mall air-gun stuff. Did some digging and KSRA at the SAI complex seems to be the only serious option in the city with real ranges.

If you've trained there or are a member, would really appreciate the ground reality:

- What's the actual damage these days? The fee info online is ancient. Course + membership + session charges — what did it total for you?
- Is the coaching decent or do they just hand you a rifle and wish you luck after the foundation course?
- Someone told me if you stick with it and shoot state matches, the club registers you with NRAI and that even helps if you ever want your own weapon license down the line through the sports quota. No clue how true that is — anyone actually gone down that road? Curious how that whole thing works in practice.
- And how long before you're shooting regularly? Heard there's police verification even for joining, which honestly surprised me.

Mostly just want to know what I'm signing up for before I take a half day off to go find their office. Also if there's any other legit place for this, I'm all ears.i