[AnotherGoodName]

I’ve hired at the largest tech companies and the smallest.

Generally you filter out toxic personalities as an absolute priority so this interview was a success.

I also think your process is appropriate for a smaller company. The key difference in my experience is that at the big high paying companies you filter on red flags and the green flags are just checkboxes that must all be passed. At the startups which simply can’t match on salary you have to instead hire on green flags instead and allow some red flags to pass. It’s harder to manage but it’s the only choice you have. So your interview which looks for green flags and is ok with some potential red flags was a sensible process.

Adam seems too naive to understand that different companies by necessity have different processes. Smaller companies are more informal and are looking for green flags not red flags. He couldn’t pass even at a smaller company willing to allow some red flags to pass.