They just probably got turned off by how senior the guy was and assumed he/she would be unable to be wrangled. It’s a bad judgement call, because usually you ga

They just probably got turned off by how senior the guy was and assumed he/she would be unable to be wrangled. It’s a bad judgement call, because usually you gain many years of experience at various companies because of exactly that, your ability to state your view, yet still compromise with leadership. Yet, in the interview they judge it as ‘this person won’t listen if I need them to’. They will, that’s how they made it that far. In fact, they are speaking to you this way because they’ve been trusted to speak this way in the past, and you are interviewing them because they’ve been trusted to also do the job in the past.