[saintfire]

If the founder is not really involved with the hiring team then you are essentially going over them without them having any idea how you work.

While I know what you're saying that the founder is vouching for your experience, its still going to cause friction, I think. Especially, again, to all the people that fought for the job.

[em-bee]

sure, i am thinking of cases where the founder is still involved with hiring, and especially more so, where the founder is the lead developer and still coding.

i agree with you that once the company is large enough that the founder is no longer involved with hiring decisions then they should not just go over the hiring team.

more specifically, as in this article: https://www.cio.com/article/236189/5-reasons-ceos-should-be-...

i am talking about smaller companies that don't yet have senior management and HR teams