[BlueTie]

I work in software sales so I get to see things from a slightly different perspective here that might be valuable for you to consider.

Over a decade with a handful of different vendors I've worked with, I have had "are they seriously asking us this question? how could they possibly not know this?" conversations with internal tech people at least once a day.

There are people and teams everywhere who have been assigned projects over their head - many with more fancy titles than "senior software engineer". Often we as the vendor are literally writing or correcting code they've written in order to solve the problem. And we're able to do so with minimal context because the mistakes are so basic. Sad to admit - but the reason they often buy software is that they're lost and need help and have no where else to turn and there is this nice vendor who they can email stuff too and have it returned fixed bc they're trying to close some million $ deal.

So yeah, par for the course. I guess don't be so hard on yourself and just focus learning on the job (that's what everyone else is doing). Software sales or a sales engineer type role could be an easy transition as well if you just want out.

Good luck.