After some thankless years preventing outages for a big tech company, I will never take an oncall position again in my life.
Most miserable working years I have had. It's wild how normalized working on weekends and evenings becomes in teams with oncall.
But it's not normal. Our users not being able to shitpost is simply not worth my weekend or evening.
And outside of Google you don't even get paid for oncall at most big tech companies! Company losing millions of dollars an hour, but somehow not willing to pay me a dime to jump in at 3AM? Looks like it's not my problem!
Most miserable working years I have had. It's wild how normalized working on weekends and evenings becomes in teams with oncall.
But it's not normal. Our users not being able to shitpost is simply not worth my weekend or evening.
And outside of Google you don't even get paid for oncall at most big tech companies! Company losing millions of dollars an hour, but somehow not willing to pay me a dime to jump in at 3AM? Looks like it's not my problem!