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The import bit to me is “the time for that has passed”: make the effort to better the company before leaving. Talk candidly (but politely) to your manager about
by makeitdouble 4y ago
The import bit to me is “the time for that has passed”: make the effort to better the company before leaving. Talk candidly (but politely) to your manager about things you think are going wrong and try to work out something from there.
Don’t wait your exit interview to burst the dam, and don’t make your leaving a revelation that you were serious about these issues.
In that sense, the exit interview should be useless.
- CharlesW 4y agoIn my experience this may put a target on your back. Some emperors do not like to be told that they have no clothes, even if the feedback is thoughtful and would improve the business. The (recently collapsed) startup I worked for thought their core technology was a differentiator, and I’d been suggesting benchmarks for a year so that we could publicly highlight advantages. A new head of QA benchmarked along a few dimensions. The results didn’t match what the leadership team had been telling customers, and it was taken very personally.
- makeitdouble 4y agoI hear you. Not all feedback is welcome. I would also expect those to be met with anger wether you’re leaving or not, so that wouldn’t be good at an exit interview feedback either, in my opinion.