[jgeada]

Everybody lies on exit interviews. You mostly don't want to burn bridges and frequently will need some references. So HR departments have 0 useful information as to why people are leaving and even less about the costs of having developers go.

[zimpenfish]

> Everybody lies on exit interviews. You mostly don't want to burn bridges

Hold on - not everyone does (I offer myself as anecdata). And I am more than happy to burn bridges if I'm leaving a toxic workplace because, well, it's toxic.

[znpy]

It really depends. where the scene is not that big, it does happen to meet again a former coworker (or a former boss) at another company.

I've seen that happen.

[znpy]

you're pretty much right.