Get it in writing and make sure it can't be taken away. Google had a leave policy after 5 years of tenure that they yanked during the great shrinking of 2008-9

Get it in writing and make sure it can't be taken away. Google had a leave policy after 5 years of tenure that they yanked during the great shrinking of 2008-9. You could go off for something like 9 months and your options would continue to vest. I think maybe even your health insurance stayed active, too. Then you could come back and keep on going. Apparently they had a problem with people taking leave and then never coming back. Instead of fixing the actual problem (people not wanting to return -- wonder why...), they took away the benefit. This was pretty crappy for those of us who were pretty close to it, or who had earned it and hadn't scheduled it yet.