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ThePeavstenator posted:Countered again, had a conversation with the hiring manager and got them to move more on the RSUs and signing bonus. I'm going to accept tomorrow! 
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i had pretty good experiences at faangs but my bad amazon interview they guy handed me a pen and a stack of paper and gave me a fizz-buzz level problem except it had like ten inputs and you had to do a whole bunch of things like print true if the first number is even print the sum of the second, third, and fourth input print the product of the fifth and sixth inputs print the largest number that was input and a bunch of stuff like that. and of course it wasn't written down since he was just coming up with it off the top of his head. then he was like, "OK let me know when you're done", and went back to working on his laptop. then in the next interview the hiring manager didn't flinch when I jokingly asked if they worked 14 hour days but just said something like, "That might be a little high."
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ThePeavstenator posted:Countered again, had a conversation with the hiring manager and got them to move more on the RSUs and signing bonus. I'm going to accept tomorrow! another victory for the 
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FMguru posted:hell yeah keep those figgies coming
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ThePeavstenator posted:Countered again, had a conversation with the hiring manager and got them to move more on the RSUs and signing bonus. I'm going to accept tomorrow! taking notes on this powerful "double counter" technique
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Glorgnole posted:taking notes on this powerful "double counter" technique  more money pls how about just a little more a bit more than that ok
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How does vacation negotiations typically go when negotiating an offer? At this point in my career I'm less interested in figgies and more interested spending as much time as possible in not doing the thing your hiring me to do. Do you negotiate yourself higher on just overall PTO or do they put in you higher on their PTO schedule. e.g. We're going to treat your PTO as if you had 8 years at the corp and next year you'll be treated as if you had nine years?
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I have never met a company that had any flexibility in negotiating vacation time, and they always revert you back to square one. at least big companies. it’s an hr policy and recruiters and managers have no leeway to move it.
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CPColin posted:A coworker a few jobs ago read that one article everybody did that said volatile+synchronized in Java wasn't enough to prevent double-initialization of your precious singletons and started adding extra checks and double-locks and stuff all over. I was then excited to remove all of that poo poo, because the problem with volatile hadn't been a thing since Java 1.6, but none of the articles whining about it had been updated since before 1.6 came out. Granny init'in, not double locking like you should
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The Management posted:I have never met a company that had any flexibility in negotiating vacation time, and they always revert you back to square one. at least big companies. it’s an hr policy and recruiters and managers have no leeway to move it. That's one of my biggest fears about going somewhere else. I'm up to 30 days of PTO and it'd suck to go to square one. When I interviewed at Microsoft years ago I knew it was inflexible, but people have told me that it's not necessarily true elsewhere.
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I think it mostly depends on the size of the company. Big corps absolutely won’t budge and med-big as well. Medium size companies of about 500 you could maybe pull it off while small companies under 100 that basically don’t have an HR department you could have a ton of flexibility if they even have a formal vacation policy.
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idk about the US but in AU full-time employees earn a mandated 4 weeks of annual leave per-year and employers are required by law to pay out accrued leave balances (personal, sick and long-service) when your employment ends. as such employers consider leave accrual to be a debt obligation that they have to work into budgets and earnings and whatnot. as such most leave accrual regimens are uniform company-wide and set in stone, usually at the mandated minimum rate. any flexibility towards leave is geared towards encouraging you to reduce your accrued leave. e.g. my employer lets you cash-out up to two weeks (76 hours) of accrued annual leave each financial year. in addition my employer applies ~13% leave-loading which means you get paid more when you consume annual leave. on the other hand i guess if you lived somewhere with no legally mandated leave accrual or pay-outs then employers might be more "flexible" (read: actually screw you over)
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Pile Of Garbage posted:idk about the US but in AU full-time employees earn a mandated 4 weeks of annual leave per-year and employers are required by law to pay out accrued leave balances (personal, sick and long-service) when your employment ends. as such employers consider leave accrual to be a debt obligation that they have to work into budgets and earnings and whatnot. I know Australia has a lot of issues but as far as the benefits go ffs does it sound nice, even posting from the supposedly social state europe
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Pile Of Garbage posted:idk about the US...on the other hand i guess if you lived somewhere with no legally mandated leave accrual or pay-outs then employers might be more "flexible" (read: actually screw you over) Sounds like you do know about the US.
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a bunch of tech companies now are jumping on the "unlimited PTO" train, which is dumb and bad its like they figured out that nobody takes all their vacation anyways, and accrued PTO is effectively an exit bonus so now we all get a system where: 1. you can't say "welp, gotta use up my PTO, so I guess it's vacation time" 2. the only rules about how much you can take are unspoken Poopernickel fucked around with this message at 15:00 on Aug 28, 2020 |
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TerminalRaptor posted:How does vacation negotiations typically go when negotiating an offer? At this point in my career I'm less interested in figgies and more interested spending as much time as possible in not doing the thing your hiring me to do. I'm lucky in that I live in the US and have consistently been able to argue for extra vacation time. Honestly, it should be one of your first asks after you find out about the benefits (that is, "are you flexible on that number," not "I want 25 days" right off the bat). If they turn you down it lets you have something material to argue in terms of additional compensation. Most places were happy to get me to at least 4 weeks. If they're willing to credit you with your existing experience off the bat, all the better, but it doesn't hurt to ask for a few more (just say you have more and you'd like them to match it, worst they can say is "no"). I got a gargantuan multinational to revise their leave up 8 days from initial offer, though their salary was too low for me to consider the offer. The exception I can think of in terms of vacay negotiation is the place that wanted to massively overpay me but only gave 1 week vacation the first year and absolutely wouldn't budge. There were a few red flags on that one. But this is definitely one of those "you have only to gain" elements of negotiation. Poopernickel posted:a bunch of tech companies now are jumping on the "unlimited PTO" train, which is dumb and bad Unlimited PTO is a trap 95% of the time unless there's a minimum amount of days you HAVE to take, especially as a fresh hire where most people are scared witless of appearing lazy.
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I had to remind my employer that Canadian law mandates that my unused PTO be paid back and the HR system needed to toggle a special flag that let me track and accrue time because they got rid of it (unlimited) for the majority of employees who are US-based. I told them I was fine not tracking my time off if they didn’t let me, but they’d have to pay all of it at the end of the year even if I took it. Effectively working for a US employer with unlimited PTO as a Canadian gives me the best of both worlds where I still have a minimal amount of PTO but no clearly defined ceiling
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unlimited pto is a huge scam. one, it lets the company no longer carry a vacation balance on its books, which accountants love. two, they don’t have to pay you your unearned vacation balance when you leave. three, they know many employees reach the maximum earned leave and then feel compelled to take time off to reduce the balance. if there’s no maximum, some people will never take a vacation. it also removes the excuse of “I have to take time off now, I’ve hit the limit”. if you work at a place with unlimited pto, select a number of weeks at minimum for yourself and enforce it. and before you quit take a few months off.
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unlimited denied pto requests
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Wisconsin isn't a mandatory payout state (I once worked for a place that was based in Colorado (which might be one) did pay me out, which is about the only honorable thing they ever did). E: They did send me a legit v.  floral arrangement when BVMM died but I'm pretty sure that was the receptionist/office manager.E2:  the local HR "Director" was pre-acquisition by Colorado and was also good people. But only evil and wickedness came from Colorado.
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The Management posted:unlimited pto is a huge scam. one, it lets the company no longer carry a vacation balance on its books, which accountants love. two, they don’t have to pay you your unearned vacation balance when you leave. three, they know many employees reach the maximum earned leave and then feel compelled to take time off to reduce the balance. if there’s no maximum, some people will never take a vacation. it also removes the excuse of “I have to take time off now, I’ve hit the limit”. - the vague and undefined rules for what counts as reasonable use of the unlimited vacation policy gives employers another cause for termination of an unwanted employee for "abusing" it - since people tend to match their effort against their coworkers (no one wants to be seen as the laziest, more vacation-taking member of the team) the policy acts as an overall ratchet downwards on people taking vacation time it sucks and i hate it
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maine has mandatory payout for "vacation" time only so if your PTO is a mix of vacation and other leave types like sick leave it doesnt have to be paid out.
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i’m at a place with unlimited pto that’s young enough to not have the inevitable problems with it surface (e.g. the ratcheting down has not become noticeable and you don’t “request” time off, you just inform your manager when you won’t be showing up) so it’s pretty nice. i have zero confidence that it will remain nice indefinitely though, hopefully i have a new job by the time it sucks.
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The Management posted:I have never met a company that had any flexibility in negotiating vacation time, and they always revert you back to square one. at least big companies. it’s an hr policy and recruiters and managers have no leeway to move it. same, i have always taken the policy into account when deciding where to go, but never got an offer that says i just get more vacation. i have worked at places that had some good policies to make it flexible, though. one where you accrue 4 weeks a year and can carry over to the next year, and you could accrue up to 10 weeks before it started automatically being sold back to you one week at a time. one had an “official” 3 weeks/year “guidance” but also said it was “between you and your manager” so sometimes you could get more, seemed especially useful to visit family in a foreign country. current employer lets you decide at the beginning of the year if you want to buy an extra week, which allows some flexibility but also requires planning.
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i have "unlimited" PTO at my job but I have not taken much of it since I started. I have a week off coming up though and I took a few days this month just to actually use some of it since yeah if you have no balance you don't have a number compelling you to take time off.
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EIDE Van Hagar posted:same, i have always taken the policy into account when deciding where to go, but never got an offer that says i just get more vacation. My old job would let you "buy" extra PTO but it actually cost you more money than just requesting unpaid leave for the extra time lol
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gently caress unlimited PTO. job prior to this one instituted it while i worked there. should have kept a copy of the email when they transitioned everyone over to see what the glossed-over reasons were for changing agreed losing your accrual rate sucks when you change jobs
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“use it or lose it” is actually very good because it means the office is dead around end of the year and you can take time off around the holidays without people guilt tripping you.
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EIDE Van Hagar posted:“use it or lose it” is actually very good because it means the office is dead around end of the year and you can take time off around the holidays without people guilt tripping you. no, it means you should take time off at a different time when everyone is working. during the holidays when no one is in the office you can yospost all day
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How depressed is working IT for a library likely to make me?
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My country's government has been talking about making 5 weeks the legal minimum, because most companies already offer that much anyway (the current legal minimum is 4). It's good.
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Job I just left had unlimited PTO ("We're all adults here, just use your best judgement") and it was a big factor that made me start my search. I've never been somewhere that would buy out vacation days but that seems like it would create situations where some person that never takes time off becomes a single point of failure. Combined with the mentioned additional accounting burden I have no idea why a company would choose it over "use it or lose it".
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I do appreciate the finance/regulatory mandatory week vacation every X months as an anti-fraud measure. Also says something about staffing levels, also margins in that industry.
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elcannon posted:Job I just left had unlimited PTO ("We're all adults here, just use your best judgement") and it was a big factor that made me start my search. I've never been somewhere that would buy out vacation days but that seems like it would create situations where some person that never takes time off becomes a single point of failure. Combined with the mentioned additional accounting burden I have no idea why a company would choose it over "use it or lose it". in Colorado employers are required to buy out unused accrued vacation, and are required to let you bank up to two and a half years worth it’s really nice but I feel like it certainly encourages me to take less vacation and always have an unused buffer so they gotta pay me if they lay me off or whatever
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Is one of the things I like/dislike the most about where I am now. 5 weeks officially with no roll-over, unofficially 2 weeks roll-over. And that policy isn't changing for 2020. I have to fight tooth and nail to get people to take time off because it's still not going to be rolled over. Basically every 1:1 I bring up their time off plans and cajole them to plan at least 1 week off a quarter in a chunk to not burn out from this plague year.
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I'd rather have a defined number of days off, but I did interview at a bigco that seemed to have a decent unlimited PTO because they also gave 4th of July and Christmas/New Years week off. And managers I talked to said talking 4 weeks off on top of that was pretty typical.
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Late last year my company sent an email saying we would be switching over to unlimited PTO starting in 2020. Then they sent a follow up that unlimited actually meant up to 20 days per year without needing special approval. This included any sick time. Then they followed up saying any unused vacation in the old system would be cashed out, but only if you left the company before Jan 1 2021. Otherwise it’s gone. Then they let us know that any vacation time booked past mid December would be taken from the new PTO system since the pay period ended in 2020.
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Steve Jorbs posted:Late last year my company sent an email saying we would be switching over to unlimited PTO starting in 2020. 
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Steve Jorbs posted:Late last year my company sent an email saying we would be switching over to unlimited PTO starting in 2020.
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