I don't accept jobs that want me to be on call unless fuck you money is involved, and so far nobody has offered it to me. The product that drives most of my employer's revenue is a gigantic pile of tech debt, and there are some people on call whose lives are kind of miserable.
What some people struggle to realize is how easily the responsibility of an individual can scale at certain companies, without their compensation improving in the slightest. If you are working on-call and not making big bucks your company is likely milking you dry.
What some people struggle to realize is how easily the responsibility of an individual can scale at certain companies, without their compensation improving in the slightest. If you are working on-call and not making big bucks your company is likely milking you dry.