> “if they ask about time off in the first interview then they are never going to be there!”
The fact that this attitude is common scares me when I'm doing interviews.
Time off is incredibly important to me. What's the use of making a great income if you can't get the time off to enjoy it?
The culture about the use of PTO varies wildly between companies. A friend of mine worked somewhere that supposedly gave 20 days PTO per year, but trying to actually use more than a single day at a time was always met with denials, and even if you did take a Friday off, you were expected to work 10 hours/day the other 4 days of that week to make up for it.
So yeah, when I'm interviewing, I want to know how much time people are taking off, but I don't want the interviewer to think I'm lazy and will be trying to avoid work as much as possible.
The fact that this attitude is common scares me when I'm doing interviews.
Time off is incredibly important to me. What's the use of making a great income if you can't get the time off to enjoy it?
The culture about the use of PTO varies wildly between companies. A friend of mine worked somewhere that supposedly gave 20 days PTO per year, but trying to actually use more than a single day at a time was always met with denials, and even if you did take a Friday off, you were expected to work 10 hours/day the other 4 days of that week to make up for it.
So yeah, when I'm interviewing, I want to know how much time people are taking off, but I don't want the interviewer to think I'm lazy and will be trying to avoid work as much as possible.