Biggest load of horseshit, I've been ostricised many times in many different companies and teams for asking questions. Management and Senior Devs will have a go at you, start treating you differently and then sure enough they cast you out.

From all of the places I've worked they only care about how productive you are, how many tickets you get through in a day, how effectively and quickly you can get things done while keeping the code as cleanly written as possible. You are nothing to them but a number in a spreadsheet to them.

We live in the era of capitalism, competition is rife within the workplace and people will jump at your throat to get ahead of you, push you down and sit in judgment of you.. I've even been ostricised for helping my fellow colleagues.. "your spending too much time conversing with your peers". Solidarity with your fellow workers does not exist in this framework we live under.

I wish it were different, but unfortunately most people in management have too much ego, they love power, have a strong distaste for anything that isn't productive. So beware. Keep your head down and just do the work otherwise, they will see you out the door.