...> 2 weeks [after a few years of service at the one job].
Most tech people, especially younger people, have to switch jobs every one or two years, roughly, in order to get a proper compensation boost and career growth, so they never accumulate the years at one company that lead to the 4-5 weeks that some people get.
Like at my current job, there's several people here who have been here for 5 years and have 4-5 weeks of PTO accumulated. I've been here for less than a year, so I have 2 weeks, even though I have more career experience than quite a few of the people here.
Also, due to some recent changes that screwed with benefits quite a bit, I'm not sure I see myself staying here for much longer than maybe two years max (we'll see, there's a pretty good team, nice boss, and perfect commute, so I'm in no hurry), so I'm probably not going to see any extra PTO out of that either.
Interesting. I have heard of that being a problem here as well, with each contract change/new company resetting seniority (even to do the same exact job) and keeping your annual PTO allotment. However, I don't know if my current situation is special, but I'm in the process of negotiating a move to a new company and was able to get them to agree to honor my service with my current company toward PTO seniority. So, it may just be something you need to fight for, that most people don't think to fight for?
Most tech people, especially younger people, have to switch jobs every one or two years, roughly, in order to get a proper compensation boost and career growth, so they never accumulate the years at one company that lead to the 4-5 weeks that some people get.
Like at my current job, there's several people here who have been here for 5 years and have 4-5 weeks of PTO accumulated. I've been here for less than a year, so I have 2 weeks, even though I have more career experience than quite a few of the people here.
Also, due to some recent changes that screwed with benefits quite a bit, I'm not sure I see myself staying here for much longer than maybe two years max (we'll see, there's a pretty good team, nice boss, and perfect commute, so I'm in no hurry), so I'm probably not going to see any extra PTO out of that either.