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By less than 1 month vacation, I think it's closer to 1-2 weeks/year and that's at big companies. Most of the startups will give you grief if you take more than
by m00x 6y ago
By less than 1 month vacation, I think it's closer to 1-2 weeks/year and that's at big companies. Most of the startups will give you grief if you take more than a week of vacation on top of the holidays.
Not all engineers are at FAANG, we can't compare the average to the top tier companies.
- digianarchist 6y agoCan anyone name names? My US bank employer gives US workers three weeks vacation which is the same here in Canada where wages are also low.
- topkai22 6y agoI’m unaware of any big companies that do less then two weeks a year of vacation for their salaried employees. There might be some, but it is uncommon. Across all workers in the U.S., the average after 5 years is 15 vacation days, with 8-10 additional holidays and a more variable amount of sick leave (https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2018/mobile/private-industry-workers-received-average-of-15-paid-vacation-days-after-5-years-of-service-in-2017.htm https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2018/mobile/private-industry-wo...) Now Americans are notoriously bad about actually taking all our vacation in a year, but the limited data I see suggests that we still on average take more than 2 weeks a year. Edit- grammar