One thing I would like to figure out is how often I can ask for help. Any ideas how to phrase that ? I worked in a small company where I was the only programme

One thing I would like to figure out is how often I can ask for help. Any ideas how to phrase that ? I worked in a small company where I was the only programmer and had to figure everything on my own, plus search engines, IRC, StackOverFlow. Then an interviewer at Intel was mildly unsatisfied that I didn't ask about a test question that wasn't entirely clear. Also, one company where I worked very briefly considered question asked a sign of weakness.