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Comment on Ask HN: Is being on-call becoming mandatory for senior software engineers?

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I think you've already heard the confirmation if your suspicion. But perhaps I can introduce another perspective. Just because you are on-call doesn't mean you go on-call.

I was on-call for a year as part of a rotation. The rotation had 7 ppl, so basically 1wk every 2 months. During that time I didn't receive a single page. This is because I picked a team with low on-call load. Perhaps you can introduce this as a filtering criteria?

There are still jobs that don't have mandatory on-call, but definitely seems to be a shrinking pie. You can blamed devops for that! (joking)

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