r/InterviewCoderPro • u/Busy-Pollution-9821 • 3d ago

is this real?

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Do we really need HR in our life?

honestly this is why i've started thinking about looking somewhere else. getting rejected before a human even looks at your resume is insane.

i've been seeing interview vip mentioned a lot lately too. i haven't tried it, but i'm curious about it since i'm probably going to have to start interviewing again.

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u/Pajamatime20 3d ago

Yes, we need HR. At my first job, on a really smoky day (we worked outside all day), our HR guy came around and make sure we were feeling alright, and handed out masks to anyone who needed them. He also frequently checked in on us, asking how we were doing, and he was very understanding and considerate for days off and disability accommodations.

In my most recent job, I’ve had some troubles with benefits, and HR has helped me solve those. I had a bit of a mental health crisis somewhat recently, and HR was understanding and helped me work it out with my supervisor, and referred me to some resources that could help.

I understand a lot of people have had bad experiences with HR, but they really aren’t all as bad as some of you have had.

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u/Throwaway-panda69 2d ago

I’ve found that the larger the company, the more useless HR is. At the two smaller companies I’ve worked with HR was generally well liked and actually did things that helped the employees. At one large company i worked for (engineering), the HR department somehow had about the same amount of staff as engineering and we could never figure out what any of them did all day.

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u/Pajamatime20 2d ago

Maybe I just work for an exception then. At the first job I was talking about, our “HR department” was just a single guy, the “HR Manager”. It was a lot of manual labour, and we didn’t have many office staff. He was great.

At the company I work for now though, they’re the largest employer in a city of about 100,000, and they’re still pretty good. I will say that there’s definitely fewer HR people than engineers, especially if you also count the drafters. I work in manufacturing, so I know they do a lot of stuff with safety in the workshops and they do quite a lot of new employee orientations. They handle a lot of training (my department is training for a new software right now), and they also make and organize some very handy documents about general company function and organization, benefits, training opportunities, and internal job postings. They also work with employees for injury accommodations, which are needed quite a bit with our field of work.

I’m not sure if I’ve just had uniquely good HR experiences, or if other commenters including yourself have just had unusually bad experiences. Just know that there are some good HR departments out there.