Exit Interview Form

An exit interview form is the structured survey an employee completes when leaving a company. It captures why they're leaving, what they liked about the job, what frustrated them, how they rate their manager, and whether they'd recommend the company. When the form is designed well, it's the single most valuable dataset HR collects — because departing employees are the only people who speak without political filter.

For decades, exit interviews were 45-minute in-person conversations with an HR partner, usually on the last Friday of an employee's notice period. They were awkward, scheduled when the employee was already checked out, and produced carefully worded answers nobody could act on. Half the time, the notes were never typed up. The digital exit interview fixes this: employees fill it out on their own time, feedback is captured in structured fields, and the data lives in your HRIS for quarterly reporting.

A well-designed digital exit interview does three jobs: collects honest, comparable data across every departure, reduces the pressure of face-to-face conversations that often produce vague answers, and creates a trend dataset HR can actually report to leadership. This Poper template does all three. It ships with 12 pre-built fields — a mix of quantitative ratings and open-text narrative — and a name field you can mark optional for full anonymity.

You can use this template as-is for HR teams, people ops, startups, remote-first companies, HR consultants, and enterprise HR departments — or customize it in the drag-and-drop builder for your workflow. Add compensation-specific questions, route sensitive feedback to a separate inbox, or embed the form in your BambooHR or Rippling offboarding workflow. The form is fully brandable, works on every device, and integrates with every major HRIS.