Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer

Re:Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer by ghaff on Friday October 08, 2021 @09:26PM (#28806166)

I guess to someone in the US, 8 weeks sounds like a lot. But, especially if you consider holidays and sick time, 6-8 weeks total over the course of a year doesn't seem unreasonable. I've been in that range for total nonweekend days off for much of my recent career.

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Re:Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer by ByteJockey on Saturday October 09, 2021 @09:55AM (#28809862)

It depends a lot on the company in the US.

If we're including holidays, I've seen plenty of companies that do 4 weeks PTO + 8-9 holidays which is just shy of 6 weeks, and there some that do 5-6 weeks PTO after you've been there for a number of years.

But there are also ones where you basically get no PTO. Presumably (hopefully?) you get paid more money to work at these places, but I've never found them worth investigating.

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Re:Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer by Sohcahtoa82 on Saturday October 09, 2021 @07:09PM (#28814173)

I don't include holidays in that total.

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