> I don't ascribe a right or left bias to them. My personal experience is a lot of HR departments do have a left-of-center bias to them, especially at the lowe

> I don't ascribe a right or left bias to them. My personal experience is a lot of HR departments do have a left-of-center bias to them, especially at the lower-levels (but at times reaching all the way to the top). A few reasons: 1) HR departments tend to skew female, and women on average skew somewhat more left-of-center than men do 2) They often have special teams for "diversity & inclusion", which inevitably tend to be filled with people with left-of-center political views 3) They'll put requirements like "commitment to diversity & inclusion" in job descriptions, which can (ironically) act as a filter to remove political diversity. Those phrases can get copy-and-pasted into job descriptions in other departments too, but while for many in engineering/sales/etc it is just compliance boilerplate with little real significance to the hiring process, HR really means it. Of course this isn't universally true, I'm sure there are some HR departments out there full of Trump supporters. But most of the people here would not be working for those kinds of companies.