[gabbo]

I know a lot of Google US employees who work 40 hour weeks (plenty who work more but usually by choice), their sick days don’t come out of their vacation allowance at all, and after 4 years of working there they get 5 weeks of vacation per year on top of 12 days of paid holidays.

Even Amazon employees do pretty well, getting 2 weeks paid time off + 1 week of "personal days" (de facto vacation days) in year 1, then that goes up to 3 weeks PTO + 1 week of personal days starting year 2 IIRC.

[CloudNetworking]

> plenty who work more but usually by choice

Ah, the usual "I do it because I want to do it, there's just so much work to do and it's not going away, you know how it is in this position, you can't never really disconnect"

[blibble]

in the UK every single employee gets at a minimum 5.6 weeks paid holiday

if you work 5 days/week ("full time") that's 5.6*5 == 28 days paid holiday, guaranteed by law

this includes people stacking shevles in supermarkets, not just people with market power working for Google and Amazon

[steve_musk]

I know a UK google employee who is a new college grad and gets 5 weeks of vacation per year on top of 8 bank holidays. And their salary is higher than most US Google new grads.

They are working at a US company, but at least they are still paying UK taxes and contributing to the UK economy.

[gabbo]

I'd love to hear what sort of job a UK new grad would get at Google that would pay them more than their US equivalent. Every data point I've ever seen has shown Google UK employees are paid a lot less.

[steve_musk]

I think typically UK google employees make less than SV but also significantly more than most software jobs in the UK. The guy I know is really good and did research in undergrad related to a niche Google is interested in.

[throwawaymath]

Do you mind saying what their compensation package is?

[steve_musk]

Very similar to a standard SV Google one except much more stock.