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Google isn't nearly as nice of a place to work at as people make it out to be. As an example they will finally increase vacation from 15days to 20days on April
by AnonymousC1421 5y ago
Google isn't nearly as nice of a place to work at as people make it out to be.
As an example they will finally increase vacation from 15days to 20days on April 1st this year.
The media reports this as "on top of already lavish perks Googlers are now getting 20 days of PTO a year!".
Gee whiz amazing. An increase from 15 days of PTO. If only we didn't much more than that in my much lower quality of life home country as a standard for tech workers.
And sorry if this sounds a bit spoilt. I should be grateful to work at a large megacorp in this economy right? It's just that Google isn't any better in terms of working conditions than any other big tech company. In fact in general it's a little bit worse yet there's propaganda movies (The Internship) about how great it is to work at Google.
It's a job. No one else seems to want to acknowledge it.
- asdfasgasdgasdg 5y ago> As an example they will finally increase vacation from 15days to 20days on April 1st this year. That change is for junior employees. It's still overdue, but vacation bumps up to 25 days per year after you have some tenure, and has done for more than a decade. I'm not saying that 25 days is anything to write home about -- I've heard of places that give 30, or unlimited -- but 25 is not bad.
- AnonymousC1421 5y agoLets put the numbers out there objectively for others reading this. Previously after 4 years you got 20 days per year. Then you got 25 at year 6+.
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- colonelxc 5y agoThis might just be an impreciseness of language, but it's actually 20 days after you've been there 3 years, and 25 after you've been there for 5. So if you're saying 'year six' starts the day after you've been there for 5 full years, then yes, we are saying the same thing. (Source: have been at Google almost 8 years, and went through both of those bumps)
- asdfasgasdgasdg 5y agoIt's been a long time since I went through these bumps, but I had thought that in your third year you got 20 days? Is that not right? So odd to make you wait for three years for your first increase and then only two for your next one.
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- UncleMeat 5y agoYou are off by a year. They were at 3 and 5 years, not 4 and 6.
- skeeter2020 5y agounlimited vacation is typically advertised as this amazing perk but in reality cheaper than many alternatives: * you carry no vacation liability on the books year-to-year * if you don't encourage people to take it, or provide slack when they can take time off they use less vacation
- unethical_ban 5y agoYep. Went from a job that has 40+ days of PTO *starting* for all employees, tech and non-tech. Now I'm a consultant making 40-70% more depending on RSU math, with "unlimited time off" but as a consultant I certainly feel less comfortable taking a two week vacation on a whim like I did before.
- paxys 5y agoIt isn't about being objectively good or bad but how it compares to everyone else.
- sydthrowaway 5y agoBuddy, you're the 50,000th engineer to join Google. It's not a special place anymore.
- aix1 5y ago> Gee whiz amazing. An increase from 15 days of PTO. If only we didn't much more than that in my much lower quality of life home country as a standard for tech workers. I am not saying 15 days of PTO is high (it isn't) but you're comparing different countries. Local customs vary hugely from country to country: for example, when I was at Google UK, I got 30 days of paid annual leave.