Treeview operates as a senior-only team. We hold a controversial belief that seniority is not measured in experience. We believe seniority is a mindset, the sum of the interlinked qualities outlined in this page.
We believe mastery is a path, not a destination. The path is achieved by desire and massive action at the level of obsession. Mastery is universal: learn the path in one domain and you can apply it anywhere.
Fundamentals are the set of principles every domain is built on. Learn them and you will understand how everything works. Seniors think from fundamentals.
We learn by doing, experimentation and first principle thinking. We avoid proxies as a source of truth. We question conventional wisdom and find our own way of doing things.
Judgment is the ability to make quality decisions with the context available. It means weighing trade-offs, business priorities, risks and impact, and knowing which decisions are easily reversible and which are not.
Taste is your sense of quality, shaped through exposure, curiosity and attention to detail. It’s the instinct that defines our standards and the intuition we rely on for decision-making.
Intuition is pattern recognition. What looks like a gut feeling is a synthesis of thousands of past iterations and observations, compressed into a single signal.
Communication is about synthesizing complexity into clarity and ensuring the receiver interprets the message as it was intended. The ability to synthesize well and communicate clearly through the right channel is a signal of seniority.
Speed is often a clear signal of seniority. The myth is that speed costs quality. In practice, the best performers are also the fastest: speed and quality share the same root, knowing what matters.