Agreed. Perhaps there are some honest companies but my experience is that developers at such companies end up taking less vacation than other places. A few tim

Agreed. Perhaps there are some honest companies but my experience is that developers at such companies end up taking less vacation than other places. A few times, I had interviewed at such companies with unlimited vacation. I would ask about their vacations, and how many weeks they took off this year or last. Most developers would usually say they took 1-2 weeks off last year, to which I would ask that you get that everywhere, why not more? Then the answer is "oh we are so busy and we don't abuse this policy. But if we ever need to take more days off, we can". This just seems like a warning sign. If a company is advertising unlimited vacation policy, I would expect more vacations not less. All my jobs had at least 2-3 weeks off. So I always assumed unlimited vacation means less than usual vacation time.