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It's a courtesy only. You have no obligation to participate and if you do, you have no obligation to say anything. You can decline.
I guess I’ve had a completely difference experience than most of these responses lol the firm I’m at does check ins & exit interviews but they actually implement change where they can. It’s actually helped a lot and one of the big reasons I have not left after a decade.
Best of luck!
It’s a courtesy. Say all the good experiences you had during your tenure. If pressed for negatives/criticisms, your call on whether to provide that or not.
My exit interview only criticism I offered was laptops were awful and I hated having my personal cell on the firm website.
What are they going to do — make you keep working there?
No
I did mine. I didn’t have anything overly negative to share, but I didn’t want to burn bridges. I had just worked with the managing partner as a specialist senior associate outside of his practice area so that made the conversation less scary. Definitely not required and if you don’t have anything nice (or tepid) to say, best to just skip it.
You're leaving, how can anything be mandatory...? But you can choose to participate to improve the working environment for the people you called colleagues and future employees of the company. Will you directly benefit, no, but might it just be the right thing to do, possibly yes.
Funny story—I left my first firm when I saw signs of instability. Probably should’ve stayed, but that’s not the point. When I resigned, I stayed on to finish stuff up and they were going through a lot of downsizing after two mergers in a relatively short time. The person from HR told me (and I didn’t leave acrimoniously so went to the exit interview because they asked—still have friends there) and it turns out the HR person who was interviewing me was being let go. And my response was “so are you doing your own exit interview”? It was probably a bit rude but it was the first thing that came to my mind. But you should go to the interview. No need to burn bridges if you don’t have to.