Junior developers often can't tell the difference between "I don't have the skill to do this" and "I don't have access/knowledge of internal processes to do thi

Junior developers often can't tell the difference between "I don't have the skill to do this" and "I don't have access/knowledge of internal processes to do this." You can bang your head against the latter forever without making progress, especially if it's un/semi-documented, mostly tribal knowledge. And the best way you're able to guess at it is by prior experience at other companies, which junior developers don't have.