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Unlimited PTO would be a negative. It really isn’t unlimited, and it is basically a hidden number in your managers’s head. With defined PTO, everyone knows how
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 3y ago
Unlimited PTO would be a negative. It really isn’t unlimited, and it is basically a hidden number in your managers’s head.
With defined PTO, everyone knows how many days you are entitled to. In addition, if you get laid off, you get money for your unused vacation days.
Other than the usual health insurance, etc, the biggest thing I am looking for would be full-time remote.
- datavirtue 3y agoNot sure where you work but absolutely nowhere do managers tell devs what to do. They just have to accept whatever time they take off. At GE everyone I knew took a lot of time off--including myself. At least 30 days per year and some quite a bit more. If you took less it was because your group didn't have a budget hammered out and all work had stopped anyway. I knew a dev that built houses until we had funded projects. I didn't work any of December in addition to my ad-hoc vacations throughout the year. Life lived. In no way shape or form do I like earned PTO. That's the scam. I'm a highly paid consultant/partner/owner now and I have to fund my time off. Do not like it. I'm paying maximum taxes on all of my PTO. Tax position has a huge impact for high earners and getting boxed into a non-optimal rule/strategy is very costly. When I take time off I don't bill, and I have to pay out of savings AND I pay tax on the savings. Meh.