I didn’t do an exit interview - they didn’t ask me to and I didn’t think it would be productive to tell them their problem was that they were out of their damn minds. their budget was about 15% below market rate for someone with 0-1 years’ experience to do this high level work, so they were exclusively hiring new grads and very junior people to do this difficult-to-impossible work. the expectations for the position were a mix of very, very senior level work and actually impossible thingsģ. the position was managed by someone who didn’t believe the position should exist and thought the entire premise was stupid, and as a bonus this person was a big jerkĢ. I’m pretty sure they left for the same reason I did, which was:ġ. They told me the previous 3 left because they “weren’t a good fit” or “exaggerated their skills and couldn’t handle the job”. I’ve left one job voluntarily and I was at least the fourth person to leave after a short tenure (I was told my position was newly created when I applied, then when I started I began to hear about my predecessors, all of whom had quit within a month so they “didn’t count”…. I just don’t see a lot of upside to being brutally honest with folks who may give my references down the road. We are glad to see her backside.” And that is what they will remember when they go to give a reference. She must have been very hard to work with and has a lot of sour grapes and lack of gratitude for how well we treated her. Unfortunately, in a situation bad enough to make you question giving real feedback, the result is more likely, “Lynn is sure up in arms about something that doesn’t matter. We shall go forth and manage like real bosses instead of complete jerks.” Her wise counsel surely has saved our backsides. We had no idea that having a supervisor who only showed up long enough to yell at his direct reports was impacting morale and employee retention. It was tempting, at the time, to cast myself as the wise avenging hero. If they wanted to hear from employees, they would have made it possible to give feedback before I left. The one where I might have had some things to share, I chose not to. Most of my jobs, I have left with nothing to really say in an exit interview.
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