cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/2933587
- How much extra do you get paid for being on an call rotation?
- Is the salary/benefits the same for inconvenience of being on call and working on an incident?
- What other rules do you have? Eg. max time working on an incident, rota for highly unsociable hours?
- How many people are on the same schedule with you?
- Where are you based, EU/US/UK/Canada?
$150 per week of on-call.
It’s almost never worth it to me (we almost always get at least 1 call during the week, if not 4-5).
I worked at a place like that and I ended up saying no to on-call. It depends on your leverage, of course. I was able to tell them “I’m here to fix your mess, not to roll in it.”
Dang, that’s a big difference from the top post.
Seems like you have some organizational and technical debt in the company that would be worth addressing before agreeing to be on-call