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> 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.

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unlimited 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

Yep. 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.

Lets 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+.

This 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)

It'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.

You are off by a year. They were at 3 and 5 years, not 4 and 6.

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