Likewise, as an engineering manager and not an HR drone (my company doesn't even have HR yet), the point of my exit interview is to improve my team and company.

Likewise, as an engineering manager and not an HR drone (my company doesn't even have HR yet), the point of my exit interview is to improve my team and company. The hope is that a departing employee can feel a little more free about giving feedback. I suppose the flip side is that people will say I should be eliciting that feedback all the time, and I do, but there's a difference between giving feedback to your superior and your former superior.