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So they told you, an external candidate, that they're firing someone, and that you would take their position? That's a pretty big red flag with respect to organizational behavior. It seems incredibly unprofessional.
"Communication" is a two-way process.
As they say: Communicate, it can't make things worse.
Observe the employees. Is the office full after 5 - 6 PM? Is everyone looking at the floor when the boss walk in? Is everyone's nails bitten to a bloody mess? Are there any female employees? Are the desk too clean and absent of personal items?
So they told you, an external candidate, that they're firing someone, and that you would take their position? That's a pretty big red flag with respect to organizational behavior. It seems incredibly unprofessional.
There are a lot of things you can ask for that will red flag an organization as a whole. Are you being given stock. Ask for a cap table and learn to read it. Tell them your wiling to sign an NDA, and that you want to look at the repository. Tell them that you may need to ask follow up "who is who" questions to pin checkins. Code never lies. Embattled areas of code, and comments are great targets for your search. Ask…
It is much more important to figure out how people communicate, how they are treated, how the other leaders think, what they want their culture to be, etc... If you can believe in a shared future vision, and participate in the process to move towards that vision, then the details of the status quo are far less important.
So they told you, an external candidate, that they're firing someone, and that you would take their position? That's a pretty big red flag with respect to organizational behavior. It seems incredibly unprofessional.