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

[sarim]

Asking because I had a conversation with a VP level person and he was adamant that HN is consumed by "practitioners" only.

[nostrademons]

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.)

[bifrost]

You can still be a CXX/Director and contribute, but I'll agree its more rare.

[nullwasamistake]

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

[bifrost]

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