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Exit Interview Strategy

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-18 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-resignation

Walk into an exit interview knowing what it's for, what to say, and what to keep — honest-but-strategic answers that protect references and leave the door open. Use when asked what do I say in my exit interview, should I be honest in my exit interview, prep me for my exit interview, or is the exit interview confidential. Produces the goals-and-risks brief, prepared answers for the standard questions, the say/soften/skip sorting of your real feedback, and the scripts for the questions that are traps.

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What to give it

The real feedback — everything they wish they could say, unfiltered; the sort works on the honest list
The exit temperature — amicable, burned, or complicated; and whether anything legal-adjacent is in the mix (harassment, retaliation, unpaid wages — which changes the venue entirely, see framework)
What they want to protect — references from whom, rehire eligibility, relationships with specific people
Who's conducting it — HR, manager, skip-level; the same answer lands differently per audience

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

Say-list is ≤2 items, both pattern-level and person-free
Every softened item preserves the useful content minus the names
Legal-adjacent issues are routed out of the interview, explicitly
Answers are final-sounding — nothing that reopens negotiation or invites follow-up meetings
The prep protects the named list (references, rehire flag, relationships)

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not treat "this is confidential" as load-bearing — prep as if notes reach the people discussed, because sometimes they do
Do not unload — the relief is real and expensive; venting buys nothing and marks the file
Do not name names attached to negative feedback, even when invited to
Do not litigate your performance reviews or comp history — closed chapters
Do not skip the prep because "it's just a formality" — unprepared honesty is how references quietly die

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp

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