>>You'll most likely not get a definite answer because it can range from very bad to very good depending on both company and team. This matches my experience.

>>You'll most likely not get a definite answer because it can range from very bad to very good depending on both company and team. This matches my experience. I disliked unlimited vacation because my manager at the time was a massive workaholic overachiever and I felt guilty taking any vacation. I usually ended up at ~2.5 weeks a year because I traveled overseas and traveling to the other side of the world for a week was not feasible. I felt like 2 - 3 weeks was typical for most of the people in the company. Some people would do that by just taking multiple very short vacations throughout the year, which seemed like an awful idea to me. Even in the groups with good managers, you were one re-org away from a bad manager and vacation time going away. If you have a good manager and work in a place that has accrued PTO, I seriously doubt the manger is going to care if you take some extra personal days throughout the year and don't record them. So you get something like unlimited vacation with the nice guarantees of accrued vacation.