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Back in a day I ran a quick survey about the topics that would be interesting for my audience. One of those was about soft skills. So, here you are.

This is not a very popular topic for many reasons, but in this article Charity Majors provides some ideas on what should one say on the exit interview. An exit interview it typically done when a person resigns from a company to reflect on this person’s experience and make improvements and adjustments in the corporate culture, processes, etc.

This is a short article, but here are a few takeaways:
- Be constructive and try to make an exit interview effective: simple ranting won’t helm anyone, but saying “all good, just a next step in my career”, when there are huge issues in the company, won’t help anyone either.
- Start from the high-level overview of corporate problems if any
- Try to tighten the problem to a material outcome (revenue loses, hours of downtime, number of people who resigned)
- Keep it short and put it in writing
- Provide a written copy to a person with administrative power within a company, who you trust

#culture #exit_interview