My girlfriend worked for a startup in Seattle that offered &quot;unlimited vacation&quot;, mainly because they didn&#x27;t want to pay out employees that stock-piled unused vacation days.<p>In reality, it was nowhere near &quot;unlimited vacation&quot; as everything still needed to be approved, and it was very common for vacation requests to not be approved for a variety of business reasons.   She probably ended up with ~20-25 days off per year, including stat holidays, which is the same as you&#x27;d get at Google or Microsoft.