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In Scandinavia you have minimum of 25 days paid time off every year, by law. So work life balance is sane by default unless you work the cray hours at Banks or

In Scandinavia you have minimum of 25 days paid time off every year, by law. So work life balance is sane by default unless you work the cray hours at Banks or McKinsey et al. In tech you have some big players in different countries. Spotify, Klarna, iZettle are some Swedish examples. Check out the Rocket Internet portfolio companies, Zalando, Trivago, EF. Google and Facebook are still top of the line even in Europe

troels 9y ago
Just to clarify. You get ~15 national holidays. On top of that 6-7 weeks are normal. (At least for Denmark)
- Symbiote 9y ago
  Denmark has 11, which sounds good, except they don't move if they fall on Saturday or Sunday. The are all on Monday-Friday this year though, which is nice. (They're also mostly in the spring, when the weather is unreliable. Can we get Easter permanently moved to August?) For comparison, England has 8, but none are on weekends, they're all either Monday or Friday. For a Monday-Friday worker, it can work out about the same.
DrinkWater 9y ago
Rocket Internet companies? Trust me, you definitely do NOT want to work there.
piva00 9y ago
Pitching in that at Klarna you get 30 days off (so +5 from the minimum 25). So far a very good company to work for, very smooth relocation process from Brazil, decent to good pay and quite often I work only between 9-16 or 9-15, no one bats an eye as long as I'm being productive and delivering what's needed.
Symbiote 9y ago
The minimum, mandated by the EU, is 20 days. Several countries have their own, higher minimum. Professionals are often given one-two weeks beyond the minimum. Working hours are as important as paid holidays. Working ~40 hours a week is normal (35, 37½, 41, it varies by country), although in some sectors working longer hours is more common. There is a list on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave_b...

troels 9y ago

Just to clarify. You get ~15 national holidays. On top of that 6-7 weeks are normal. (At least for Denmark)

Symbiote 9y ago
Denmark has 11, which sounds good, except they don't move if they fall on Saturday or Sunday. The are all on Monday-Friday this year though, which is nice. (They're also mostly in the spring, when the weather is unreliable. Can we get Easter permanently moved to August?) For comparison, England has 8, but none are on weekends, they're all either Monday or Friday. For a Monday-Friday worker, it can work out about the same.

DrinkWater 9y ago

Rocket Internet companies? Trust me, you definitely do NOT want to work there.

piva00 9y ago

Pitching in that at Klarna you get 30 days off (so +5 from the minimum 25). So far a very good company to work for, very smooth relocation process from Brazil, decent to good pay and quite often I work only between 9-16 or 9-15, no one bats an eye as long as I'm being productive and delivering what's needed.

Symbiote 9y ago

The minimum, mandated by the EU, is 20 days. Several countries have their own, higher minimum. Professionals are often given one-two weeks beyond the minimum. Working hours are as important as paid holidays. Working ~40 hours a week is normal (35, 37½, 41, it varies by country), although in some sectors working longer hours is more common. There is a list on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave_b...