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be wary of any feedback loop that is visible to HR and permanently stored in their systems.

and be wary of bosses who rely on these system rather than taking you out to coffee and actually investing in you as a human being.

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At this point, I'm convinced that people go into HR because they aren't competent enough to do anything useful with their careers. My firm's HR people have wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars of our time holding mandatory webinars to give us information that could have been contained in 2-3 paragraph emails.

That's a pretty broad generalization. I've seen my fair share of crappy HR groups, but I've also seen good ones. Just as I've seen some terrible Dev groups, as well as some good ones.

Yeah, I was definitely being unfair. I was irritated with my HR people when I wrote that comment.

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