I run a small company and I absolutely refuse to have an HR department. We&#x27;re still small enough that this is fairly easy to work around.<p>My recent hires are all just people I met at events. I&#x27;m told by people outside the company that they&#x27;re all very happy workers.<p>We do not do technical interviews. We talk casually about past work and what people want to achieve. After hiring we usually find out they have a different skillset and then we find the right tasks to match experience vs. career path.<p>Knowing this works for my team I would never want to go back to full-time employment at a place with HR ever again. HR has become an insular group of &quot;specialists&quot; who do not deliver value to organizations, and often ruin them IMO.