Plan-It Geo interview questions

Applied via LinkedIn, got set up quickly for any interview with the CEO. He's a young guy and talks a lot. The interview was very conversational and we chatted way past the 30 minutes alotted. Was told he's set me up with a follow-up interview with CMO but got ghosted. Definitely a few red flags came up. First one: CEO is relatively new and comes from private equity. Second one: He fired the entire marketing team as one of his first tasks as CEO. The team was big, like 15 people strong and had been with the company for a long time. He said they were immature and weren't doing anything to move the needle on sales. As someone who's felt the chaos of a private equity take over before, I'd warn any prospects to stay far away from this company. They seem unprofessional, the CSuite is all over the place and don't seem able or willing to follow-up with their interview candidates (which says a lot just by itself). In terms of the questions, he went through each of my past jobs, asked who my boss was, and how they'd describe me as a worker. It felt like a sneaky way to get the names of my references, which I wasn't comfortable with at this stage in the interview process. My recommendation? Stay far away.