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[quote=Anonymous]If that's an important part of compensation for you, these "cross that bridge when you get there" responses don't make sense — you won't know if you don't ask (until it's too late). Like, if you find out down the line that you're expecting and their leave is crap – would you job search anew while pregnant? Maybe. But if it were me, I'd ask upfront if it's that important not a "nice to have."

I know peers who have switched jobs specifically to position themselves with better leave, ones who've started at 6 or 7 months pregnant and negotiated leave with a new company (twice!), and ones who joined small startup teams that didn't have any policy whatsoever and had one started for them because they asked.

For what it's worth, I would talk to HR to get as much info as possible about existing policy (sounds like you already did, and actually sounds like they ... don't provide paid leave at all). Then talk to the hiring manager — the person offering the job, that you'd be working for — about the situation. Hiring is hard and expensive. You'd be surprised how there are good bosses who actually advocate for their people, new recruits or otherwise. [/quote]

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