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Re:Exit interviews are a trap by agilob on Monday April 04, 2022 @03:08PM (#30910758)
>I have no idea what the author is on about. The exit interview is often the best 30 minutes of a bad job!

My exit interview at a toxic job was really bad. I was given old format of exit interview form, me and my manager knew it's not going to be imported into a system and analysed, it has quite stupid questions like "would you stay for 2% more salary", or asking to blame people "is any of below a reason of you leaving: PO, SM, fellow developer/QA", while most people were leaving thanks to C-level people who didn't want to recognise their fault. If they knew employee was leaving the company for a lot more money of changing role, they were asked different questions that made the company look more positive to investors.

Re:Exit interviews are a trap by hitpointdrew on Monday April 04, 2022 @04:11PM (#30911431)
> would you stay for 2% more salary

Wut? I hope you responded with something like "Hell no, but make it 60% and we can talk". Typically when I have jumped ship I got something like 20%-40% more with my new employer.

Re:Exit interviews are a trap by agilob on Monday April 04, 2022 @04:37PM (#30911665)
Of course, the questions were designed to make leaving employees look bad and leave for no reason, and like said above, I got an old format which wasn't imported into a system and presented as metrics.