Dan Martell - March 20, 2025


What are stay interviews?

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Episode Stats


Length

25 seconds

Words per minute

258.66

Word count

112

Sentence count

6

Harmful content

Hate speech

1

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Summary

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In this episode, I talk about why it's a weird idea to interview people you fired to get feedback about how you should change your company. I care more about finding out why people stay, and why they don't.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 What are stay interviews?
00:00:01.320 I remember one time my buddy, he has like 200 employees
00:00:03.760 and his HR person came to him and was like,
00:00:05.740 we'd have almost a perfect score
00:00:06.900 except for these five people.
00:00:08.120 And he goes, well, why don't we just find out
00:00:09.580 who those people are and move them on
00:00:11.160 because we'd have a perfect score.
00:00:12.740 And are we trying to optimize for the 98% of people 0.80
00:00:15.680 that are happy or the 2% that are not?
00:00:17.680 I think it's a weird idea to interview people
00:00:20.280 that you fired to get feedback
00:00:22.080 about how you should change your company.
00:00:23.800 I care more about finding out why people stay.