Exit interviews are a trap
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Exit interviews are a trap
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Re: Exit interviews are a trap
#2Yeah... the time to try to help them has gone by then. Nobody will listen because it's much easier to blame the guy that's not there any more, and let the beat go on.
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#3HR exercises are really not to your advantage anyway, running down the clock and keeping it bland are the best choices, just like any other HR exercise.
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#4There can be an upside to an exit interview. If you have equity in the company, then suggesting things in an exit interview that will be a positive change for the company can benefit you.
Note, that the likelihood of a company implementing changes based on your exit interview feedback will be pretty low.
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#6Generally spot on in my experience. I've only ever agreed to one, and it was a mess, with the interviewer getting very upset and pushing back on all of my answers. Since then I politely decline. I've had one boss tell me it wasn't optional, to which I responded that I'd be happy to leave earlier if he wanted to enforce the requirement. He swiftly backed down, as we hadn't yet finished knowledge transfer.
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#7PSA: HR is not your friend. Their job is to keep tab on and shield corporations from employee unrest. Think of them as a benign internal police; sort of complement of legal department. Legal is to handle external threat and HR is to handle internal threats.
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#8I used my exit interview to rebuke and rain fury upon my managers who were all failures. It felt good.
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#9PSA: HR is not your friend . Their job is to keep tab on and shield corporations from employee unrest. Think of them as a benign internal police; sort of complement of legal department. Legal is to handle external threat and HR is to handle internal threats.
> Think of them as a benign internal police
But drop the benign; HR are at least as prone, if not moreso, to being malign than the regular kind of police.
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#10Exit interviews seem to be only helpful for the remaining coworkers if one is not afraid of criticizing poor management or mismanagement if that is the case. But in reality they're not taken seriously so why bother anyway?