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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
A preview of what’s in the template. Every question is editable before you launch.
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…
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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
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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
Frequently asked questions
What questions are in the “Employee Exit Interview (AI Voice)” template?
The template includes 9 ready-to-use questions, starting with: “Thank you for taking a few minutes before you go. Your honest feedback helps the people who stay. This conversation is c…” · “Exit interview” · “Which factors contributed to your decision to leave? Select all that apply.”. The full set is previewed above, and every question is editable.
How long does this survey take to complete?
Respondents typically finish the 9 questions in about 11 minutes.
Can I customize this template?
Yes — every question, answer option, and the ordering is editable before you launch. You can add or remove questions, or ask the AI editor to rework the survey around your research goal.
Is this template free to use?
Yes. Open it in the editor and start customizing right away — no account required to try it, and the free plan covers launching your survey.
Ready to launch?
Open this template in the editor. Every part is yours to change before the first respondent sees it.
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