I lucked out and started working in a team where most people were there 5+ years and the real senior ones were 10+ years in the team. It was a cross functional

I lucked out and started working in a team where most people were there 5+ years and the real senior ones were 10+ years in the team. It was a cross functional team, somewhat isolated from the large organization, working on 'special projects' (government, military, police etc.) and it was comprised of engineers, testers, business analysists, technical project managers and a team lead. I spent so much time getting mentored, learning the ins and outs and being slowly ramped up to what I believe were great engineering practices. I still attribute my engineering mind to that formative experience. At one point the company got bought out, teams dissolved and it became a hot mess where nothing was really done anymore. I left the team, with a heavy heart, and in a year's time the company was basically dead apart from some invested (crashed stocks so they must go up!) people that were left to maintain ongoing projects. Since then, and it's been close to a decade, I haven't found any company where even a tiny sliver of hope exists to be able to mentor people the way I have been mentored. The landscape changed and everyone is looking for velocity. In my current role, whenever I ask a potential 'expert' if they have any experience with 'X' (due to their background in it), they just google, get to the first result and suggest that as a solution.