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Hah, last time I interviewed for a remote job in an American startup with unlimited PTO, I said: you know, I'm from Europe, here we don't have unlimited PTO, bu
by badpun 7y ago
Hah, last time I interviewed for a remote job in an American startup with unlimited PTO, I said: you know, I'm from Europe, here we don't have unlimited PTO, but 5 or 6 weeks of vacation are common - so I don't really want unlimited and would be happy with just 5 weeks. Are you OK with that? That was met with a bit of an uncomfortable silence, and then they said that the standard is that everybody takes 2 weeks of vacation once a year plus maybe an occasional day off a couple times a year. Which was exactly what I suspected.
In the previous US startup I worked for, which also had an "unlimited PTO", I checked the company calendar and it was standard to take at most 2-3 weeks of vacation per year. Seeing what I saw, I now consider the unlimited PTO a red flag, as in - somebody is looking for suckers.
- JJMcJ 7y agoAccrued vacation must be carried on the books of a company as a liability until the vacation is taken. So you have two weeks vacation a year, you work a year without taking any vacation, the company has actually paid for 54 weeks for their accounting. Also, in many American states, accrued vacation must be paid out when you leave the job. So it's not just an imaginary liability.