Yes - often a question would be answered just by pointing to the documentation or relevant comments in the code and I am sure my coworkers read the docs indepen

Yes - often a question would be answered just by pointing to the documentation or relevant comments in the code and I am sure my coworkers read the docs independently as needed. Though especially at my last job the domain logic was especially tricky (health research informatics / HIPAA stuff / etc) so that might mean documentation was unusually valuable in that particular job.