Fired from My Role: Navigating the Exit Interview and Employee Engagement Survey

Question

As the title above says, I was fired from my role.

Now I’ve received the questionnaire for the exit interview, as well as an employee engagement survey. Can anyone please guide me on how honest and direct someone should be when answering these questions? Especially considering the situation.

Accepted Answer

I think you need to look at it as a cost/benefit. What do you benefit from saying anything negative (even if it's true) or saying anything at all?

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I think you’ll find it hard to gain advice if we don’t know the situation - of course if it’s personal etc then don’t say!

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Depends. Are they the type of folks to hold grudges/would you ever ask for a reference?

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It’s all a formality and just an HR thing. Personally, unless they are attaching money to those things, I wouldn’t answer them.

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Write down every negative thing you can think of .... and then set that to the side.

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What are you planning to write though?

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Be professionally honest....ultimately what you say will have almost zero impact (employee engagement activities are usually just for optics) so while it might be satisfying to be brutally honest, it won't undo whats happened but could negatively impact references etc in the future. Be balanced...if there would positive elements of the culture / role, cite them, if there were ones that you felt could be improved, include those.

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I wouldn't bother. What do you gain out of filling it out? At best, it just seems like a place to vent/rant. The feedback will have little to no impact on how they do business.

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Really depends on the grounds you were fired for and if there was a lot of headbutting with your director

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There is zero point of filling that thing out. They canned ya, go sell against them, get a po, then staple it to the exit survey and mail it to the CEO

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Fired from My Role: Navigating the Exit Interview and Employee Engagement Survey

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Fired from My Role: Navigating the Exit Interview and Employee Engagement Survey

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