Exit interviews are a trap
I made the mistake and told the truth one time early in my career.<p>I got fired, err... I wasn&#x27;t retained after a multi-month temp period, and was brought in to be fired, then exit interviewed.<p>I was upset, but stuck to the truth. My direct boss was passive aggressive, didn&#x27;t like me, and excluded me from the team. His code was awful, in the long term wasn&#x27;t maintainable, and wouldn&#x27;t be able to meet the needs of the road map because of poor design decisions. Some cliques had formed to the determent of the tiny company.<p>Unfortunately after that exit interview, it became extremely difficult for me to get work in that community. Unknown to me at the time, I made an enemy of my direct boss, who had much deeper connections with that area tech community than I ever could have imagined. I only found out after making friends with someone else who told me they had heard nothing but bad things about me.<p>It was a lesson learned. After a many years, and a move, it is no longer a problem, but it derailed me for quite a while.