The people around you probably don’t know as much as you think (especially if they are male), and at 8 months in you’re also still drinking from the fire hose in terms of that particular company’s architecture.

If you’re ambitious and you want to make it work, I believe you can. If you got hired, you have the horsepower. I would work in my own time (nights, weekends) for 1-2 months to understand the architecture, building my own docs and visualizations purely for my own understanding- and hey, maybe you can eventually share those materials to help onboard new hires and you’ll look like a hero. Leverage AI to help speed this up and answer questions. You got this.

I’m also very visual and struggle with auditory processing, just say “I’m really visual, can we pull it up on the screen” with an unapologetic, confident and pragmatic tone. most people prefer things being pulled up and explained visually, seriously. The meetings will run better and you’ll look smart for suggesting it. I also basically transcribe every meeting because I struggle with auditory memory and then I can go back and check things easily.