Ask HN: Can you take more than 2 consecutive weeks of vacation?

Most places I've worked, there has been a written or unwritten (and, depending on jurisdiction, maybe statutory) assumption that you can take a week or two off without discussion (other than which weeks, naturally) but anything above that may need some discussion about project impact and timing.

It typically hasn't been a problem if there is lots of notice, but "I'd like to take 3 weeks off next month" is likely to end up with a bunch of back and forth at best.

My current place has a number of international hires, and has been pretty flexible about allowing large blocks of time to go "home" and visit, some mix of vacation time, unpaid leave, and remote work for 4+ weeks. But these have typically been planned many months in advance.

Managers will try anything they can to prevent you exercising your rights. While there can be scenarios that make it impractical to take n weeks off, convention isn't a valid one.

I can, but I don't abuse it. I only took it once as I was truly exhausted and really needed to decompress. My advice is make sure your performance is stellar and also make sure to leave your team in a good position to perform without you. Having a good manager to run interference for you while away is also important. Gladly I checked all those boxes. YMMV.

This is why unlimited PTO is stupid. You have to get permission for ANY time off. Lame.

Not exactly, but there's no guaranteed time off in the US at all (FMLA aside) and even mid-career office workers often only have three weeks per year (early-career workers often have two weeks, sometimes less) with the result that taking three weeks all at once is pretty unusual across most of the economy.