Working at a company with no HR

Charlotte_Ca

Elliott.T123 said:

Charlotte_Ca said:

I remember when years ago I worked for that start up with 10 ppl, I was enjoying it in the beginning because they were more personal. However, I only worked with them for a week in the office and then we moved to WFH due to COVID. What I didn’t like is that I ended up doing a different role because covid changed everything and I didn’t enjoy what I was doing. The managers were good though creating socials online to stay in touch etc. 

So, now the company I had an interview with and I wrote this post told me that they didn’t accept me for the role. I was expecting that though because honestly, I didn’t have the skills they required. However, they would like to see me again for another position they have. I have started seeing things differently and I’m thinking that they are interested in hiring me since they are offering another role and maybe I should put my fear on the side, because anyway I haven’t had much luck with other positions in other bigger companies. And maybe going into a smaller company would be better for me and a chance to develop some new skills. 

I’ve done some research and the company doesn’t have bad reviews. Well to be fair it only had one review and it was saying the people are friendly, but you cannot progress in the company. Then I looked on posts on LinkedIn other employees put when they were leaving the company and they wrote nice things. One of them they even supported him with training and the other was saying how grateful he was for the colleagues and the company.

It's just what another person said here, that when you are in bigger companies you can move internally, but when you are in a smaller company then things are a bit tight.

It’s good to know though the opinions of different people.

I would argue that 95% of the time it doesn't matter what the reviews for a company say, do you think all the people who have an ok but not great experience are going to bother to post? Do you think the people positing on LinkedIn are being genuine or are they playing the business game and keeping their options open?

Do you also think everyone has the same experience working for a company?
Joe Bloggs might be a huge football fan and the fact that the boss and most of his colleagues are too and spend 30 minutes every morning talking about it makes the environment great. However John Smith might absolutely hate the sport and the fact the rest of the team spend 30 minutes every morning chatting about it drives him mad.

Going further do you think everyone's experience is the same even in medium sized companies. The sales team might have the greatest Sales Director ever and everyone loves working there, on the other hand the Finance Manager might be awful to work for and staff turnover is through the roof.

Indeed normally people who have just an OK experience won't leave a review, but the ones who have a bad experience will do. So, when I don't see many bad reviews that's when I think that this company should be ok somehow.