I wouldn't expect someone to immediately know about the existence of Hacker News, nor immediately assume "oh they're the good kind of hackers, for sure" when I am sitting in a security clearance interview.
Not knowing these things doesn't make someone incompetent or terrible people---it just means they don't run in the same circles that I do (to note, plenty of good people at Microsoft have never heard of HN, but are still nice enough to work with).
>I wouldn't expect someone to immediately know about the existence of Hacker News, nor immediately assume "oh they're the good kind of hackers, for sure" when I am sitting in a security clearance interview.
It's the tracking and asking you about what you visited part, not the "not knowing about HN" part
Not knowing these things doesn't make someone incompetent or terrible people---it just means they don't run in the same circles that I do (to note, plenty of good people at Microsoft have never heard of HN, but are still nice enough to work with).