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DO NOT DECLINE THE EXIT INTERVIEW. As a team manager, I can tell you it’s a terrible look and will be recorded on your file. Just go, keep it brief and positive. Really not that hard for a mature professional.

Approach the exit interview as if you will cross paths with the person you most despise in the organization again, and you will need something from that person. Because you will. A reference, a tax form, something. So be professional, positive, and unemotional. You’ll someday regret it if you aren't.

This. Exit interviews are for the company to make themselves feel good and to make sure there isn’t some sort of lawsuit coming. The company isn’t going to have some moment of clarity because you quit and change how it does everything just because you pointed out all its faults in an exit interview.

These things are bullshit because nobody can say “I deserve more pay and you guys are a bunch of assholes” without burning every known bridge, no matter how diplomatically you try to say it. I never had an exit interview; I just...crept out after my two weeks’ notice and took my remaining vacation and vanished. They…

You absolutely do **not** need to be honest and truthful at your exit interview, especially if that ”honesty” burns a bridge. You want to stay on the best possible relationship with your past employers and co workers. Trashing them will not endear you. If you can be reasonably constructive, fine, but lobbing bombs can…