Exit Interview Survey
Structured exit feedback to learn from departing employees.
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Reason for leaving*
About this template
Exit Interview Survey is a ready-to-use survey template with 5 questions that takes about 5 minutes to answer. Structured exit feedback to learn from departing employees.
Employee feedback templates run from onboarding through engagement pulses to the exit interview. They work best when people believe the answers are anonymous, so keep the question count low, avoid anything that identifies a small team, and publish what you changed as a result — response rates on the second round depend almost entirely on what happened after the first. Everything in this template is editable — treat the questions below as a starting point that already has the structure right, then cut what does not apply to you.
- Who should use it
- HR teams, people managers and founders running their first structured feedback cycle.
- When to use it
- On a fixed cadence (quarterly pulse, annual engagement) plus one-off moments: onboarding, promotion, exit.
What this template helps you measure
- Reasons for leaving
- Overall satisfaction
- Ideas for improvement
- Likelihood to recommend
Every question in this template
5 questions, with what each one is doing there. Change or remove any of them after you make your copy.
Reason for leaving*
Single choice- Better opportunity
- Compensation
- Management
- Career change
- Personal
- Other
Why this matters: Makes the reason people leave countable: you get a ranked list you can act on rather than a pile of sentences to read.
How would you rate your overall experience?*
Star ratingWhy this matters: Puts a number on overall satisfaction, so you can trend it across weeks, locations or teams instead of arguing from the loudest anecdote.
What did you enjoy most?
Long textWhy this matters: The scored questions tell you something moved; this is the one that tells you what to do about it.
What could the company improve?
Long textWhy this matters: Open text is where the reason behind the scores shows up. This is the question that produces the quotes worth taking into a review meeting.
Would you recommend us as an employer?*
Yes / NoWhy this matters: Forces a decision about likelihood to recommend you rather than a comfortable middle option, which is the point of asking it this way.
How to use this template
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Customise the questions
Reword anything that does not match your business, delete what you do not need, change a question type, or add your own. Shorter surveys finish more often — cut before you add.
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Share it
Publish, then share the link, print the QR code, embed it on your site, or send it to a contact list over email or WhatsApp.
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Read the responses
Results land in your dashboard as they arrive, with charts per question, filters, sentiment analysis on open text, and CSV or PDF export.
What you can customise
Your copy is yours. Nothing in the template is locked, and the original is never changed by anything you do.
Questions and wording
Edit, reorder, delete or add questions. Nothing in the template is locked.
Question types
Swap a rating for NPS, a single choice for a matrix, or add ranking, sliders and file uploads.
Logo and brand colours
Apply your logo, primary colour, fonts and background image to the respondent page.
Conditional logic
Skip questions or branch to a different page based on an earlier answer. Available on the Basic plan and above.
Thank-you page
Write your own closing message, or redirect respondents to a URL of your choice after submitting.
Sharing and distribution
Share by link or QR code, embed it on your website, or send it out over email and WhatsApp campaigns.
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