For me, the biggest challenge to all of this is recruitment and review. It's easy to have a set of values and give everyone freedom but then how do you identify

For me, the biggest challenge to all of this is recruitment and review. It's easy to have a set of values and give everyone freedom but then how do you identify at interview if people fit those values? How do you review people's performance while "treating them like adults". The simple truth is that not everybody behaves like an adult, a good number of humans are happy to earn big dollars and do as little as possible (or certainly not work as well as they could). Interestingly, I note a lot of people complaining about gitlab interviews but maybe that is the point. They tested you by disagreeing with something you wrote to see how you reacted. If you got defensive or didn't have the means to come back to their complaint, maybe you don't have the right culture!