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>Unless you're grinding in a startup the worklife balance is way better in the USA for tech That doesn't really pass the sniff test without some supporting dat
by bragr 2y ago
>Unless you're grinding in a startup the worklife balance is way better in the USA for tech
That doesn't really pass the sniff test without some supporting data, given the work culture norms and labor laws that I'm familiar with. Just quickly searching for one example, full time employees in Ireland get 4 weeks of vacation a year, and in the US you'll be lucky to take 2-3 weeks a year, and not legally mandated either. Depending on the state, you may not even be entitled to sick days.
- shiroiushi 2y agoOP said "for tech". Tech jobs have long had much better vacation time and other benefits than "regular" jobs in the US. However, with the way things are going, this may not last and I wouldn't count on it. Also, it seems to depend a lot on employer: working at a big place like Apple or Google will of course get you lots of vacation time, but working at some shitty little 30-person company will probably get you the regular 2 weeks, and these days, the good jobs are probably a lot more scarce, forcing more tech employees to work at those shitty companies.
- romwell 2y ago>Tech jobs have long had much better vacation time Yeah, no. Google is 3 weeks/year, and has been that way for as far as I have known it. KLA+ (formerly, KLA-Tencor) has several (IIRC, 3) weeks of sick days and vacation COMBINED, so if you get sick, no vacation for you. Those are representative examples.
- InfamousRece 2y agoThere are also quite a few companies that offer “unlimited” vacation, but in practice they pressure/shame their employees not to take “too much” time off.
- romwell 2y agoWhen Cadence switched to "unlimited" vacations, my manager straight up told me that he expects it to be three weeks unless I exceed his expectations, or it will adversely affect my performance reviews. Which is how it effectively works, except usually managers are less direct.
- Nimitz14 2y agoThat doesn't seem right. I have more at amazon. Meta also has more. I've never heard of KLA. Just looked it up and the number of days increases with seniority at Google.
- romwell 2y ago>never heard of KLA KLA, ASML, TSMC are companies that are huge globally in their fields. The field being semiconductor design and fabrication. Whatever device you're reading this on almost certainly has components made with machinery by one (or all) of those.
- shiroiushi 2y agoWith all the stuff about chips and fabs and Taiwan in the news in the past year, you'd have to be living under a rock to not know who TSMC and ASML are. However, I too have never heard of KLA. Somehow it never gets mentioned alongside those other companies. Maybe it's similar to how everyone knows about Microsoft and Apple, and even my mother knows what Linux is, but almost no one has heard of Green Hills Software?
- romwell 2y agoI don't know what's common knowledge, but comparison to Green Hills doesn't hold. KLA makes wafer inspection and process control equipment and has very little (if any) competition in what they do. They're big. As in, they have 10B revenue and 15,000 employees. That's roughly 1/3 of what ASML is (ASML has 30B revenue and 45K employees). It's more like your grandma knowing about Nintendo, but not Valve. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLA_Corporation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLA_Corporation
- JohnFen 2y agoThis is in line with my experiences, as well.
- RestlessMind 2y ago> Google is 3 weeks/year, and has been that way for as far as I have known it. Not true. Google starts at 3 weeks/year but that increases quickly after a few years. I was getting 5 weeks/year when I left.