HR is where most large organizations bury the affirmative action hires. In my experience some of the laziest people currently inhabiting the planet. Increasingly the job is nothing but racial and gender bean-counting to satisfy the government.
HR is brutal when it comes to setting salaries for people. What are their qualifications to know about market rate salaries etc? Many of them come from labor and employment relations majors and are trying to use their position to right grievances regardless of qualifications blind to race etc.