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Lots of IT jobs that deal with critical infrastructure have on-call duties. Try working for some IT firm that supports healthcare, utility, defense, or what no
by TrackerFF 6y ago
Lots of IT jobs that deal with critical infrastructure have on-call duties.
Try working for some IT firm that supports healthcare, utility, defense, or what not, and I can assure you that there's rotation duty where you need to be on-call within xx minutes, 24/7.
During college I was interning for IT firm that provided networking for local hospitals, and they had the same rotation. My friend who got me the gig, worked there FT, and he basically had to forego social activities every 3 or 4 week, because he'd be on call 24/7.
- julianlam 6y agoYeah, I also thought the on-call/pager thing was a little overblown. It immediately raised a red flag about how wet behind the ears OP is. Not to say that there aren't toxic on-call rotations and such, only that it's a lot more common than you'd think, and is not limited to just doctors eyeroll Any time a business unit needs to be accountable to another party after-hours, some sort of call schedule is created.
- sixstringtheory 6y ago> During the hiring process, on-call is not mentioned in any way other than the usual salaried catch-all "are you willing to work nights and/or weekends." It should be very clear what the actual expectation is, though, instead of a nebulous "we may need you to work extra sometimes." It's a guarantee that you will work extra at a fixed interval, and that extra work happens to be psychologically draining. I ask for quite the premium in salary if I know I'm going to be on call.
- redredrobot 6y agoI found that weird. On-call is so central to the technical identity of Amazon that I'm surprised you could get through the hiring process without knowing that you'd be on-call.