I feel it's perfectly normal to mess up as a junior. It's part of the learning process. What does NOT feel normal to me, is that you are just assigned stories

I feel it's perfectly normal to mess up as a junior. It's part of the learning process. What does NOT feel normal to me, is that you are just assigned stories and that there seems to be no one who's there for your questions, double-checks your work, and shows you the ropes. Places I've worked before, new employees would always be given a buddy - a more experienced programmed to act as help and mentor. Someone who could take a junior under their wings. That wasn't done out of kindness either - but purely for business reasons: new employees get up to speed faster, become more efficient, and there's less costly mistakes, when someone is looking out for them. The biggest problem I see with the no-help approach though, is that the fear of making mistakes creates a company culture that stifles innovation.