[Volundr]

I had unlimited PTO (they called it DTO, for discretionary time off, to make it clear what it actually was). When I was interviewing I told my manager that I had 6 weeks at my old job and asked if he saw any issues with that. He said no, and sure enough I never had a issue taking time off. Definitely not always a scam, but also definitely a good idea to be explicit about what's reasonable.

Shortly after leaving that job for one that did have limited PTO, both my mother and sister had some health issues (they are both doing better now), and I found myself looking at my PTO balance when deciding if I take time off for this or that, and I really missed the cognitive freedom that came with "unlimited".