How's the vacation policy at Puppet?

Don't work there. It's a terrible place, oddly one of the few remaining that openly embraces stack-ranking, and for which use cases are significantly narrowing for its culture of arrogance/self-righteous "You must model the end state!!" - orthodoxy now bordering on the absurd. The politics are many-layered, tribal, aggressively manipulative and uniquely Orwellian, especially for an organization of its (rapidly diminishing) size. Although alternating between the now familiar IRS-loophole subterfuge of "unlimited!" and *very* loosely/arbitrarily defined, completely unwritten, and "at the discretion of mgmt" purported 5 weeks, taking any vacation longer than a week, or exceeding 2 weeks in a year will most certainly relegate you to "tier 2" status or worse, some form of inventively punitive managerial retaliation. It's a desperate place full of desperate people, hierarchized according to "flash over substance" theatrics and "perception is reality" dishonesty.

It's quite generous; we get 5 weeks off in addition to paid holidays, plus 4 days of volunteer time off (VTO) to volunteer at our charity of choice.

It's awesome and one of the best benefits here. Management is super flexible, but you get 5 weeks of PTO.

In Germany, 25 days / year. In the USA, they allow unlimited time off.

generous