I've had one job with "unlimited" PTO and I loved it, but like everything the devil is in the details. On the internet a lot of people have misconceptions and

I've had one job with "unlimited" PTO and I loved it, but like everything the devil is in the details. On the internet a lot of people have misconceptions and different ideas about how unlimited PTO is suppossed to work. In our case, it worked exactly like PTO anywhere else. We still had to request long stretches of time off (say more than a couple of days), and our manager could still deny the request. In other words it wasn't "everybody does whatever they want and takes vacation all the time," which seems to be a common fear people have about it. As far as I know, most people used common sense, and most requests were granted. It was really great for one offs, like taking my car in for service, handling family emergencies, unexpected problems around the house, etc. Having said all that, I'd be skeptical about unlimited PTO at a very small company. Bigger companies will have procedures in place to make sure things are handled fairly, with HR keeping an eye on how PTO is actually being used, investigating if certain teams never take PTO, etc.