How much PTO we get at Amazon when we start working we a SDE? How much PTO we can borrow in our 1st year?
17 + 2. You cant borrow anything loss of pay
What is the 2 days? My offer letter said 10 days + 5 personal days + holidays. What’s a p day vs a pto day?
Personal days are a set amount 5 or 6 that you accrue and are not paid out if you.leave. 10 days is your standard vacation days which are paid out if you.leave and have a higher cap. There are tiers to the vacation days based on tenure. I believe you'll get 3 weeks after 1 year and then maybe 5 weeks after 5 years or something like that. Don't remember exactly numbers
Why tag Google and Facebook?
Just to get a wider audience, there might be someone who might have moved out to these companies.
In California for Amazon you get 15 days PTO plus four floating holidays during your first year
So is it 15 pto and like 10 holidays? How much does pto increase to after 1 year? Any personal days or other stuff?
There are four types of PTO at Amazon corporate (numbers for Seattle): Vacation time: equivalent to “normal” PTO at most companies with a cash value (paid out to you if you leave, or paid back to the company if you leave with a negative balance). You’ll get 10 days during your first year, and 15 per year thereafter. Personal time: 6 per year, no cash value, expire by year end. They’re basically equivalent to floating holidays that you use at your discretion (since we don’t get the day after Thanksgiving, for example). Sick time: required by WA/King County law, I think. These used to expire but apparently do roll over now and can accumulate to a cap. In any case, I think we still get 3 per year and the cap is maybe 6 (not sure). Company holidays: 6 per year (yeah, seriously) in Seattle e.g. Christmas and July 4. Other countries do get more. General advice is to burn the personal and sick time first, since they’re both worthless. Hoard the vacation time if you can; it’s worth the equivalent amount of time in base salary. HR/Finance does not like this because it’s a liability on the books; that’s why there’s a cap, and why your manager will get emails if you’re not taking vacation days and/or are constantly at or hitting that cap, but those threats are hollow. Last thing: most reasonable SDMs here don’t actually give a shit if you actually report your PTO time at all, as long as you occasionally use SOME of it (mostly to keep HR off of their backs), and aren’t going to be strict at all about the hours you come and go and when you take off. This is one of the things you should ask a prospective manager before you join their team; if they toe the company line and adhere to strict policies about working hours and PTO, that’s a huge red flag. Use your discretion; don’t abuse it when you’re new and unproven (if you have some particular schedule you like to keep, manage expectations and be clear about it in advance). We’re all salaried, results-driven people in the end.
Yo: get yourself a cool ass manager and everything said above goes out the door. I routinely take time off and never report it, my manager looks the other way 👌
Just look it up on inside.
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Can you negotiate for more PTO? I'm not 25 and 2 weeks not going to cut it.
It all depends on the location
Really? Is it possible to find this out prior to start?
Yes, the offer letter has the details I believe, or you can just ask the recruiter for this and other benefits Information