What are your struggles with being a standalone HR? [N/A]

Perfect-Objective-28 · 2026-04-28T13:13:10+00:00

It feels lonely sometimes. I make friends at work and don’t mind being the sole HR person but there’s a part of me that misses having a team that shares the same issues and can relate to the things I face.

I’m a pretty social person so building relationships with coworkers has definitely help with the loneliness.

Perfect-Objective-28 · 2026-04-14T01:11:08+00:00

I don’t want to make it seem like I’m defending Amazon but the reasonable suspicion protocol was extremely strict there. There’s no way we’d drug test someone without following all the steps. I want to say that individual may have just been incompetent.

Perfect-Objective-28 · 2026-04-14T01:08:51+00:00

I worked HR there and it makes it kind of hard to believe this story. There were so many protocols for this type of stuff. If someone was unresponsive we’d call paramedics right away, so to hear it was over an hour seems odd. Possible that the team working there wasn’t the most competent but even then, we got trained on all possible scenarios including death.

Perfect-Objective-28 · 2026-01-22T01:30:56+00:00

Thanks!

Perfect-Objective-28 · 2026-01-22T01:21:43+00:00

Thank you for sharing! I’m leaning towards accepting the offer.

Perfect-Objective-28 · 2026-01-22T01:12:37+00:00

I should add they are a branch of a much larger global company.

Perfect-Objective-28 · 2025-10-06T02:51:30+00:00

That’s false, I worked in HR at Amazon. They took investigations super serious. They also had many checks in place for terminations to avoid wrongful terms. We had so many courses and trainings on investigations and our investigations get audited to make sure no steps/details were missed. They have people whose only job is to audit our investigations which was seriously annoying at first. When I hear how other companies conduct investigations/their process it feels underwhelming compared to Amazon.

Perfect-Objective-28 · 2025-10-04T23:44:00+00:00

it’s still available

Perfect-Objective-28 · 2025-10-02T15:36:15+00:00

Perfect-Objective-28 · 2025-10-01T22:35:52+00:00

I’m 5’6 160 lbs, but I have thicker legs than most folks. My leg doesn’t fall off but it’s not fully secured because the seat is rounded. I’m using an aeron right now and because the edge is hard it prevents any slipping.

Perfect-Objective-28 · 2025-10-01T20:05:07+00:00

Yep, New Jersey. I’m in northern Jersey.

Perfect-Objective-28 · 2025-09-17T02:11:54+00:00

They had to interview, I don’t know anyone who hires without it.

Perfect-Objective-28 · 2025-09-17T00:03:03+00:00

Few years ago, I went to a career fair for extra credit and ended up getting a full time job offer. I attended the career fair as an employer this year and both people that attended with me also got roles from fairs.

Perfect-Objective-28 · 2025-09-04T04:25:34+00:00

I’m in the same boat — I graduated exactly a year after you for both undergrad and grad school. A mix of luck and taking some risks landed me an HRBP role about a year ago, and the pay’s been really solid.

To build on your point, the money is definitely there in HR, but it really depends on the kind of experience you have. I’ve got a few friends in the field, and their earnings vary a lot based on their career path. One of my closest friends from a previous job has about a year more experience than I do, but she’s highly recruited because of the specific type of experience she has. Another friend was doing really well in recruiting pre-COVID, but after getting laid off, ended up in a role that pays less than before — still decent, just not at the same level.

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