> Unfortunately, companies these days require senior software engineers to be oncall from time to time because, well, their culture says so, or something like t

> Unfortunately, companies these days require senior software engineers to be oncall from time to time because, well, their culture says so, or something like that... What type of companies are you applying at (industry, size, etc.)? What is your geographic location? There are tons of companies in the world that employ SEs and I know plenty of SEs who are not required to do on-call rotations. In fact, I've never heard of this being common. I suspect your experience might be a function of what type of companies you're applying to and perhaps where they're located.