I don't take much vacation, but if for example I have a year where there's family emergencies and my friends want to go on trips, does Amazon allow for unpaid extra days off?
Don’t do it
Not really.. first year is really rough, only 10 days of PTO. Maybe you can negotiate to start it at 15, which happens on year 2. I think we only give like 6-7 holidays too, most companies do 10 at least.
Speaking of negotiation, I have a friend at Amazon who takes 30-40 days off a year PTO. He makes up for it working overtime and coordinating with his manager. I guess expectation management is key.
Depending on your manager, there can definitely be leeway in this. But in addition to vacation days, there's also sick days and personal days. I'm not sure the exact amount of each, i feel like they've changed within the last year to give us more of those. But like 6 or 7 personal days and 3 sick days, in addition to the 10 vacation days you accrue your first year.. but they're all paid days off
I mean, with on-call you can’t even take off hours off.
Going from unlimited PTO to unlimited PTSD. Nice choice.
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The TC I'm being offered is too high to pass up lol.
Like others said it depends heavily on your manager early on (and possibly later). My manager(s) the first couple years didn’t make us track it but I didn’t take much time off anyways. A later manager gave half a shit. He’d ask us to fill it out but wasn’t really tracking it much. So I would log any trips I would take but not random days. Once you really become a valuable asset to the team it really doesn’t matter. Even with tracking my time (including rollover because I didn’t log much the first couple years) I took off probably about 90 days my last year and a half plus had ~100 hours left that they paid out.
You took 90 days off in 1.5 years?? How were you able to do that?
I started it with 160 hours saved up vacation plus I think another like 60 hours of saved up sick+personal. So that put me at 220 hours. Accumulated 180 hours of more vacation and another probably 90 of sick/personal. There’s 490 hours, or ~62 days. Plus another 15 or so days I just took off without reporting it (fair to do when you have to work oncall some weekends). So that’s 78 days. I guess it’s over 90 if you include weekends while I was actually out of town on vacation.
I want to encourage more people to bring up this topic with their HR. 2 weeks of vacation for new hires is a joke. If more people speak up, we can change it.
Or get PIP-ed
Amazon has 300k employees worldwide, most of which are fulfillment center workers. Amazon won't increase annual PTO officially for so many folks. If you're in engineering, work it out with your manager. Many of my friends work there never even submit PTO's.
Great advice. I hope to have a manager that chill haha.
No, ball and chain
Hahahahaha, almost spit my Mexican Coke out