I started off pretty uneducated, typical gym n00b, doing lots of bicep curls and bench presses.
Unsurprisingly, I got nowhere.
Then I went onto a split routine, hitting each muscle to complete exhaustion once a week, with a chest/triceps, back/biceps and shoulders/legs split, and got decent growth. Compounds and isolations in that one.
Then I went to a full body routine, compounds only, hitting each muscle two or three times a week, depending on my schedule, and my growth went through the roof. Much better than the split routine, the difference was just absolutely astonishing.