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The company that I work for is a reasonably sized startup, around 60 employees. We have a small HR department and one person in charge of hiring. They are absol

The company that I work for is a reasonably sized startup, around 60 employees. We have a small HR department and one person in charge of hiring. They are absolutely incompetent; they are completely incapable of doing their job and have been looking for any opportunity to leave for another department, I have no idea how they still have their job. This really hurts the company, it blows my mind how such a seriously important part of the company can be treated so casually. If the person(s) in charge of hiring at a company aren't putting 100% into it then the ENTIRE company is affected. Any opportunity to put HR in the hands of people who know what they're doing should be taken.

rdl 14y ago
I have never met an HR person inside an organization who was particularly competent or at all fun to be around. Maybe they exist within a few of the bigger/more successful recruiting organizations (Palantir, Facebook, ...), but in general, any good HR person will end up being an externally-facing recruiter. Internal HR people exist to help the company fire people they want to fire, maintain regulatory compliance, and that's about it.
- ChuckMcM 14y ago
  " Internal HR people exist to help the company fire people they want to fire, maintain regulatory compliance, and that's about it." Sadly this is true. I had a startup that was acquired and we went from being a 50 person company to being a 250 person company, and later nearly a 1500 person company. And our original HR person who was more of the morale/culture/lets stay balanced kind of person, quit after the 'real' HR people explained to her what her job in HR was. I was helpless to change her fate and that really bothered me for a long time. After that and later Sarbanes Oxley and "Regulation FD" stuff were on everyone's mind, the people that called themselves 'HR' became compliance officers. Their job is/was to protect the company. That was sad for me.

rdl 14y ago

I have never met an HR person inside an organization who was particularly competent or at all fun to be around. Maybe they exist within a few of the bigger/more successful recruiting organizations (Palantir, Facebook, ...), but in general, any good HR person will end up being an externally-facing recruiter. Internal HR people exist to help the company fire people they want to fire, maintain regulatory compliance, and that's about it.

ChuckMcM 14y ago
" Internal HR people exist to help the company fire people they want to fire, maintain regulatory compliance, and that's about it." Sadly this is true. I had a startup that was acquired and we went from being a 50 person company to being a 250 person company, and later nearly a 1500 person company. And our original HR person who was more of the morale/culture/lets stay balanced kind of person, quit after the 'real' HR people explained to her what her job in HR was. I was helpless to change her fate and that really bothered me for a long time. After that and later Sarbanes Oxley and "Regulation FD" stuff were on everyone's mind, the people that called themselves 'HR' became compliance officers. Their job is/was to protect the company. That was sad for me.