Don't give your company anything more than this, they don't deserve any more and anything else you volunteer can ONLY hurt you (Anything you say can and will be held against you....) also you risk burning bridges. While you may never want to work for the company ever again you might want them as a reference down the line.
I tried telling the truth in my first exit interview and all it did was burn bridges and make people mad. I wasn't even pulling skeletons out, I just stated the facts for why I was leaving and when they tried to counter (Another thing, NEVER accept a counter offer) and I refused they got all mad because they thought they were addressing all my reasons for leaving but I was still leaving. Don't give them that chance, you already know you want to leave, don't waste yours or their time trying to convince you otherwise.
Over the years, I've heard this advice repeatedly, but with often wildly different reasons. I'm genuinely curious what your rationale for this advice is.
You already don't like working there. You may be able to identify one or two reasons, but in reality it's the whole mix. The only thing they can offer as a counter is money and a promotion. The promotion is just deck chair movement, and they can't possibly offer you enough money to make you insanely happy; even with the money, your future raises will very possibly be flattened until you're back where you were, relative to the market. And the people and policies and every other undefinable thing that went into your decision are still there.
The managers may also be resentful and suspicious of you.
a3n pretty much said everything I was going to. I heard it from my dad originally and his reasoning was that if you aren't happy then a title change/money isn't going to fix that long-term. Also most people, myself included, are bad about letting that shit stew until it bubbles over and in my experience there is nothing that can be done to reverse that. Normally the trust is lost and can't be gained back and even it could your life will be magnitudes of times better to just move on from a toxic environment instead of trying to change the company you are currently at.
The future consequences are also huge, you may no longer be seen as "team player" which can slow or halt your career, better to not take the chance and move on.
>Don't give your company anything more than this, they don't deserve any more and anything else you volunteer can ONLY hurt you
I'd have to disagree. Don't say anything negative. Don't talk about why you are leaving. But you can say some positive things. How you had a great time working with $team. How you hope that $project will be a success. How you will miss $company_gathering.
I can agree with that, I really meant negative things only as the OP mentioned his discontent with working there but yes, always good to score a few more points on your way out even if you don't think you will need them.
When people resign right after an announcement like that, no one needs to ask why. They are factoring in some attrition -- perhaps they might even want some.
My last day will be date(today + 14) % weekend.