Ask HN: Is it common for an HN user to be a CTO/VP/Director level employee?

by sarim on 5/8/2019, 7:50:45 PM with 4 comments
Asking because I had a conversation with a VP level person and he was adamant that HN is consumed by "practitioners" only.

  • by nostrademons on 5/8/2019, 7:57:51 PM

    It's probably about as common as being a CTO/VP/Director level employee within the general population. Most HN users are likely individual contributors; this is because most people are individual contributors.

    (I did know one VP at Google who read HN. Only one, though.)

  • by nullwasamistake on 5/9/2019, 2:36:17 AM

    The HN crowd self selects to people deeply interested in tech. For instance, there's many VC's and founders lurking or public in the comments section. Never seen that anywhere else.

    I wouldn't think about it much. The population on here is more likely to be VC/founder/VP than other internet forums but 95% of those people still aren't on HN. Too small sample population

  • by bifrost on 5/8/2019, 8:06:24 PM

    Probably pretty common, I did/do. I know several other C-Level/Directors that do, but probably only in the tech/internet space.