[hardolaf]

I worked for a defense contractor that had a truly unlimited vacation policy as long as you were getting your work done. We actually would get formally reprimanded and put on a PIP for not using enough vacation. All benefits started day 1 including 4 months new parental leave (fully paid; STD following birth did not count against the 4 months), unlimited vacation (no questions asked and auto-approved for the first 30 days per year), unlimited sick leave (up to 5-days per incident after which you'd transition to STD up through 12 weeks then LTD at 100%, then 70% of pay until better or moved onto SSDI exceeding the benefit respectively), unlimited jury duty leave at 100% pay (one guy that I knew there spent 4 months on a jury for a complex civil trial), dedicated paid time off to vote in every election (local, state, or federal), and a whole heck of a lot more. Had I not gotten a much better offer from a HFT firm that fully offset the decrease in benefits, I probably would never have left the company because of how amazing the benefits were. I had taken 4 weeks off for my wedding + honeymoon before I quit and my manager was talking to me about how I should still schedule another 3-4 weeks off that fiscal year for vacations at other times.

[nebula8804]

I'm gonna need the name of this contractor. Hell i'd switch tech stacks for these kinds of benefits. Do they offer Remote? I make about 118k in NJ as an Angular+Python dev and what keeps me from leaving is the "unofficial" remote they offer me + the extremely relaxed working environment(no stress whatsoever). I'm not doing anything cutting edge but at my age (34 still living at home while saving money) I just don't feel like I want to be in any competitive environment anymore. Only worry I have is that I will be SOL once this dries up. I guess I gotta get on those "personal" projects/leetcode practice that I don't really feel like doing.

[hardolaf]

It was Harris Corporation but I heard the benefits got worse after the merger with L3.

[nebula8804]

Yuck. Everyone I have known who worked for L3 was a jerk who loved the smell of their own farts. They picked up all of the nastiest colleagues I had in engineering school. I have a very bad impression of this company. Don't they make the 1990s style "secure" phones that the government relies on?