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Employee Exit Interview (AI Voice)
A voice AI exit interview departing employees can take privately, on their own time. The interviewer covers reasons for leaving, manager and culture experience, and what would have changed their mind — probing gently where a form gets one-word answers. Structured questions capture the benchmarkable basics.
Sample questions
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9 questions · ~11 min
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Voice AI Interview
Exit interview
Conduct a respectful, confidential exit interview. Learn: (1) the real trigger that started their job search, distinguishing push factors from pull factors; (2) their experience with their direct manager — support, feedb…
Q03
Multiple ChoiceRequired
Which factors contributed to your decision to leave? Select all that apply.
- Compensation or benefits
- Career growth or promotion opportunities
- My direct manager
- Team culture or colleagues
- Workload or burnout
- Flexibility or remote-work policy
- The work itself stopped being interesting
- Company direction or leadership
- Personal or family reasons
- A better opportunity came along
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Slider MatrixRequired
How satisfied were you with each of these during your time here?
5 rows, one slider each
- Career growth and development
- Compensation and benefits
- Support from my direct manager
- Workload and work-life balance
- Recognition for my work
Slider 1–5Min:Very dissatisfiedMax:Very satisfied
Q05
DropdownRequired
How long were you with the company?
- Less than 1 year
- 1–2 years
- 3–5 years
- More than 5 years
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Opinion ScaleRequired
How likely would you be to recommend working here to a friend?
Scale: 0 – 10
Min:Not at all likelyMax:Extremely likely
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Opinion ScaleRequired
Would you consider returning in the future, if circumstances changed?
Scale: 1 – 5
Min:Definitely notMax:Definitely yes
Q08
Long Text
Is there anything you'd like to share that we didn't cover — including anything you'd want handled confidentially by HR?
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Message
Thank you, and genuinely — good luck in the next chapter. Your feedback goes into an anonymized summary for leadership; nothing is attributed to you without your consent.
What’s included
AI follow-ups
Adaptive probes on open-ended answers that pull out detail a static form would miss.
Attention checks
Built-in safeguards against rushed answers and low-quality respondents.
AI-drafted copy
Wording, ordering, and branching written by the AI — tuned to your research goal.
Auto report
Themes, quotes, and a plain-English summary write themselves once responses come in.
How it compares
We reviewed the closest templates from other survey tools. Here’s what they do well — and where this template goes further.
Why this template
- A private voice interview people can take without facing HR — probing the real trigger versus the polite reason, gently
- Benchmarkable structure included: satisfaction ratings across growth, pay, manager, workload, and recognition, plus eNPS, boomerang intent, and tenure segmentation
- The interviewer distinguishes push from pull factors and probes whether compensation was the trigger or the excuse
- Reports are anonymized and thematic, so leadership sees patterns rather than attributable quotes
SurveyMonkey
Exit Interview Survey TemplateA ready-to-send 8-question template (6 rating-scale + 2 open-ended) covering the core retention drivers, paired with SurveyMonkey's analytics stack. It is broad and quick to deploy but purely a static form: every departing employee sees identical questions with no ability to probe surprising answers.
What it does well
- Concise, expert-picked question set spanning satisfaction, skills utilization, professional growth, compensation fairness, and manager/co-worker relationships
- Explicit retention framing: maps questions to compensation & benefits, management quality, role alignment, and workplace stress
- Built-in analysis features called out on the page: automatic results summaries, filters, custom dashboards, crosstab reports, and text analysis
- 16,000+ uses gives strong social proof and a battle-tested default structure
Where it falls short
- Fixed rating + open-text form with no adaptive AI follow-up when an employee flags a manager or compensation problem
- No voice-interview option, so departing employees cannot speak candidly in conversation
- Text analysis is post-hoc keyword/theme extraction rather than an auto-generated narrative report tied to each interview
- No transparency into how questions or scoring logic are constructed
Qualtrics
Free Employee Exit Interview Survey TemplateA PhD-designed template with prebuilt logic that focuses on reasons for leaving, role/manager feedback, and organizational perception, plus an employee-NPS item. Strong on statistical rigor and HR-system integration, but it is a structured questionnaire rather than a conversation, and it leans on scale to detect patterns rather than depth per respondent.
What it does well
- PhD-designed methodology with prebuilt logic and survey structure
- Covers why the employee is leaving, feedback on role/manager/team, and overall opinion of the organization
- Includes an employee-NPS style 'would you promote us' item for a comparable metric
- Real-time exit insights integrated with existing HR software and demographic-linked attrition analysis (by role, team, demographic group)
Where it falls short
- Prebuilt branching logic is rule-based, not an AI interviewer that reasons about each answer and asks a tailored follow-up
- No voice modality; candor is limited to typed responses
- Guidance explicitly favors 'short and simple' forms, which caps depth compared to an adaptive interview
- Reporting is dashboard/stat-driven rather than an automatically written per-interview qualitative summary
Jotform
Employee Exit Interview SurveyA standard exit-interview form: departing employees type answers into structured fields. Fast to adopt and free, but a text form is exactly the format that yields polite one-word exit feedback.
What it does well
- Free, customizable exit-interview form with standard question coverage
- Drag-and-drop editing and HR-system integrations
- Anonymous collection is configurable
Where it falls short
- Typed form answers — no gentle probing past the polite reason for leaving
- No voice option, which is where candid exit stories actually come out
- No push/pull analysis or automated theming across departures
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