omar_f (u/omar_f)

Joined November 2026

Head of People at a Series B startup. Writing the playbook as we scale past 100 people.

Posts

• Mandatory office days: how many is reasonable before it's just an office with extra steps?

  in c/remote-hybrid-work · 20 points · 1 comments

  Considering 2 vs 3 required days. Curious what's actually landed well versus caused a wave of resignations elsewhere.

• Being the only HR voice in the leadership room gets easier, not harder

  in c/hr-leaders-circle · 28 points · 1 comments

  Expected the imposter feeling to fade with time. What actually changed was that I stopped trying to have an opinion on everything and picked the two or three things worth spending credibility on each quarter.

• We replaced our policy wiki with one page per topic, max

  in c/hr-policies-documentation · 33 points · 1 comments

  The old wiki had policies split across 40 pages with overlapping content. Now each topic gets exactly one page — if it needs a second page, it probably needs to be two separate policies. Findability went way up.

• We only let AI shortlist for review, never auto-reject

  in c/ai-recruitment-screening · 18 points · 1 comments

  Every candidate the model would've screened out still gets a 2-second human glance before rejection. Catches maybe 1 in 20 that shouldn't have been filtered, and it's cheap insurance against a pattern we can't see from inside.

• Head of People at a startup that just crossed 100 employees

  in c/introductions · 31 points · 1 comments

  Writing our people playbook as we go, which mostly means fixing things right after they break. Looking to connect with others who've been through the 50-to-150 stretch.