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I wonder how unlimited is that - how common is that people take e.g. 60+ days off (not including sick leaves of course)? I guess most self-impose 30 days limit

• city41 7y ago
  It varies a lot from team to team and person to person. In general I would say that Netflix encourages healthy work/life balance and people do use vacation a good amount. And just to be clear, I currently work at Netflix.
• segmondy 7y ago
  Why would you take 60+ days? Why not go for 600+ days? The idea of unlimited is that it's not 14 days or 21days. Take as many as you honestly reasonable need to. Everyone's life is different, you might get sick, have a sick family member, have a new child. There might be things that come up that requires you to take time off without you having to grovel to your manager. If you also need to take time off for the good times, a wedding, a party, to go see a world cup, Olympic, whatever, do so. So long as you're contributing, not holding your team and peers back and your impact is constant. p/s. I don't work for Netflix, but that's what I imagine anytime I hear "unlimited".
• laurencerowe 7y ago
  I was advised ~30 days/year was normal. Only downside is you don't get paid out accrued vacation days when you move on.
• senordevnyc 7y ago
  60+ is ridiculously high. Isn't the upper end of European countries only like 30 days (6 weeks)? For what it's worth, the company I just started at is "flexible", but the average is around 25 days per year.