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Employee Engagement & Feedback Pulse Survey

Measures how engaged, supported, and likely to stay your employees are — covering manager support, recognition, growth opportunities, and turnover risk — with an AI follow-up that digs into the specific reason behind each employee's recommendation score instead of settling for a number.

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Sample questions

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12 questions · ~7 min
Q01
Message

Thanks for taking a few minutes for this check-in. Your responses are shared with leadership in aggregate, not tied to your name, and this should take about 6-8 minutes. Please answer honestly — it's the only way this actually helps.

Q02
Opinion ScaleRequired

How likely are you to recommend this company as a place to work to a friend or former colleague?

Scale: 0 – 10
Min:Not at all likelyMax:Extremely likely
Q03
MatrixRequired

How much do you agree with each statement about your day-to-day work?

5 rows × 5 columns
  • I understand how my work contributes to the company's goals
  • I have the resources and tools I need to do my job well
  • I feel recognized when I do good work
  • I see a realistic path for growth here
  • My workload is sustainable over the long term
Columns: Strongly disagree · Disagree · Neutral · Agree · Strongly agree
Q04
Rating ScaleRequired

How would you rate your direct manager's support over the last 3 months?

Range: 1 – 5
Min:PoorMax:Excellent
Q05
Multiple ChoiceRequired

In the last 3 months, how often have you received specific, actionable feedback from your manager (not just 'good job')?

  • Never
  • Rarely
  • Sometimes
  • Often
  • Every week or more
Q06
Ranking

Rank these from most to least likely to improve your day-to-day work experience.

  1. Compensation
  2. Career growth opportunities
  3. Manager support
  4. Work-life balance
  5. Team culture
  6. Recognition for good work
Drag to rank
Q07
Multiple ChoiceRequired

In the last 6 months, have you seriously considered leaving this company?

  • Yes
  • No
  • Not sure
Q08
AI Interview

Probe the reasoning behind the respondent's likelihood-to-recommend score and their answer on considering leaving. If the score was low or they've considered leaving, dig into the specific incident or ongoing frustration that drives it and what would need to change. If the score was high, find out what specifically they'd point to as the reason, so it can be reinforced. Anchor on concrete recent examples ('last time this came up...') rather than general impressions, and if they mention their manager or workload, ask one follow-up to get a specific example.

Q09
Message

Almost done — just a couple of quick details to help us look at trends across teams. All optional.

Q10
Dropdown

Which department do you work in? (Replace with your own department list before launching.)

  • Engineering
  • Sales
  • Marketing
  • Customer Support
  • Operations
  • People/HR
  • Finance
  • Other
  • Prefer not to say
Q11
Multiple Choice

How long have you been with the company?

  • Less than 6 months
  • 6 months to 1 year
  • 1-3 years
  • 3-5 years
  • 5+ years
  • Prefer not to say
Q12
Message

That's everything — thank you for the honest feedback. Your answers, along with everyone else's, feed directly into a report the leadership team uses to decide what to fix next quarter.

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

  • Includes a dedicated AI follow-up interview that probes the specific reasoning behind each employee's recommend-to-a-friend score instead of stopping at the number
  • Combines standard engagement metrics (manager support rating, recognition/feedback frequency, turnover-risk question) with a ranking exercise on what would most improve day-to-day work
  • Uses conversational chat-message framing at open and close to set expectations on confidentiality and next steps, which can improve honesty in responses
  • Auto-generates a report from the responses, including the themes surfaced in the AI follow-up, without manual coding of open-text answers

Jotform

Employee Feedback Form Template

A general-purpose, fielding-ready form template built on Jotform's drag-and-drop form builder. It covers standard feedback fields but is a static form rather than an engagement-specific instrument. Useful as a quick, customizable starting point rather than a structured engagement diagnostic.

What it does well

  • Easy drag-and-drop customization typical of Jotform
  • Fielding-ready template that can be deployed quickly
  • Broad form-building ecosystem (integrations, themes, PDF export)

Where it falls short

  • Static question set with no adaptive follow-up to dig into why an employee gave a particular rating
  • No automated per-response quality scoring
  • No published methodology or prompt transparency, since it isn't AI-driven

SurveySparrow

30+ Manager Feedback Survey Questions With Customizable Template

This page is framed as a question-bank/guide with a customizable template specifically for manager feedback, which is narrower in scope than a full engagement pulse survey. It's a reasonable source for manager-support question ideas but not built around turnover risk or recognition broadly.

What it does well

  • Large curated bank of manager-feedback questions for inspiration
  • Conversational survey format SurveySparrow is known for
  • Customizable template structure

Where it falls short

  • Focused narrowly on manager feedback rather than full engagement/turnover-risk coverage
  • No adaptive AI interview to probe the reasoning behind a score
  • No automated quality scoring of open responses

Typeform

Employee feedback and check-in survey template

A fielding-ready, well-designed check-in survey template using Typeform's conversational one-question-at-a-time UI. It covers general feedback and check-in themes but relies on fixed question logic rather than dynamic probing. Good for a lightweight pulse but not a deep-dive engagement diagnostic.

What it does well

  • Polished conversational UI known for high completion rates
  • Ready-to-field check-in template requiring minimal setup
  • Simple branching logic options within Typeform's platform

Where it falls short

  • No adaptive AI follow-up interview to explore the 'why' behind a recommendation score
  • No automated per-response quality scoring or reporting on response depth
  • No transparent, published prompt/methodology since there's no AI interviewing layer

QuestionPro

Employee Engagement Survey Template

A broad, fielding-ready engagement survey template covering common dimensions like recognition, growth, and manager support, backed by QuestionPro's established survey platform. It's comprehensive on paper but static, so all open-ended context depends on respondents volunteering detail rather than being drawn out. Suited to standard benchmarking rather than adaptive follow-up.

What it does well

  • Comprehensive coverage of standard engagement dimensions
  • Established survey platform with reporting and benchmarking features
  • Fielding-ready template requiring little setup

Where it falls short

  • No adaptive AI interview probing the specific reasons behind a low or high score
  • No automated quality scoring of individual responses
  • No published prompt-level methodology, since follow-up questions aren't AI-generated

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