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Exit interviews aren't box checking exercises, they exist to give the company a heads up if the employee seems like they're disgruntled and might try to sue. Always skip them, it only benefits the company that laid you off, nobody else.
Exit inerviews can be valuable and beneficial if the exit is on good terms all around.
I left my last job for a better-paying position elsewhere, but I still loved my old job and coworkers. It's still the best job I ever had.
I couldn't pass up a 50% raise and they couldn't match it. No hard feelings or bruised egos. It's just how things work out.
Having an honest conversation with HR about what worked and didn't from an employee perspective with zero stakes for either of us was productive and informative.
thank you. Im all for sticking it to employers, but sharing feedback with a place you left on good terms from seems like a great way to maintain professional relationships. Also helps your old coworkers out.
Bad Jobs and Bad Employers Excluded obvi
Do you know if it was productive and informative for them?
For example, I left a job several years ago, and not long before I left, I met with the boss and explained some of the massive issues facing my department. He sounded interested, but of course he never did anything about those problems, and my former co-workers have told me that the situation is worse than it was before. In my observation, and that of my friends, this is what happens most of the time. After all, if they didn't listen to you before, and especially if they didn't ask you before, then why would we expect them to care what you say now?
Fair enough, but I think it really just depends on how you look at it. From my POV it's just a box-checking exercise in the vast majority of cases, and a waste of your time (if you're the one quitting). But you're right, employers are super paranoid about this kind of thing (even though they have most of the power). If it is one of those disgruntled-gonna-sue people then you are right, it's something they need to try to get out in front of.