I've been a senior dev for quite some time and I was never required to be on call beyond my standard 9-5 hours. I mostly work in enterprise development and, if the systems are critical, there are dedicated teams who're doing the 24/7 support. Furthermore, in the finance sector the developers are not allowed by law to even touch production (to prevent fraud). You could still be theoretically brought into a call to help-troubleshoot, but I've never worked on a system critical enough for that to ever be requested.
Probably, if you're the US company, the US working culture defines how people work in Europe as well. That's what I heard about Amazon office here in Europe - by local standards, it's a sweatshop.
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I've been a senior dev for quite some time and I was never required to be on call beyond my standard 9-5 hours. I mostly work in enterprise development and, if the systems are critical, there are dedicated teams who're doing the 24/7 support. Furthermore, in the finance sector the developers are not allowed by law to even touch production (to prevent fraud). You could still be theoretically brought into a call to help-troubleshoot, but I've never worked on a system critical enough for that to ever be requested.
Are you in the US? I work in finance. We absolutely have on-call rotations and at least read-only PRD access (usually some limited write capability).
Europe. Interesting about read-only prod access, over here it's a huge no-no for developers.
I feel like that's not the case universally. We have offices over there and they provide prod support too.
Probably, if you're the US company, the US working culture defines how people work in Europe as well. That's what I heard about Amazon office here in Europe - by local standards, it's a sweatshop.