I've never once in my long career seen constructive feedback from exit interviews make its way back to the leadership or management orgs. I have seen a top eng

I've never once in my long career seen constructive feedback from exit interviews make its way back to the leadership or management orgs. I have seen a top engineer tell his CEO why he was leaving and everything wrong with the project (and he said this, I'm sure, very politely and with the intent of helping them). He made the critical mistake of sharing where he was going next (a FAANG). The CEO of old-company called VP of new-company, and the new company withdrew their offer. Yup, Top Engineer was then fully unemployed, his reward for being honest. Lawsuit, you say? No, my friend didn't have $500k or whatever sitting around for legal fees. He just got a new job, and is fine now. Still, lesson learned.