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Not an SWE, but how common is on call duty, and are there no companies that pay spot bonuses per issue?
by JoshTko 5y ago
Not an SWE, but how common is on call duty, and are there no companies that pay spot bonuses per issue?
- SpicyLemonZest 5y agoIt’s hard to quantify exactly how common it is. Common enough that you’d need to deliberately search for jobs that don’t have it, but not so common that you won’t find any. I’ve never heard of spot bonuses per issue, although I imagine it would create a perverse incentive to have noisy alerting that files a lot of issues. Flat bonuses per oncall shift exist (and I think they’re a great idea) but they’re relatively rare.
- mathteddybear 5y agoIt is common in internet software companies, less common in other kinds of software companies. Bigger companies tend to have multiple levels of compensation for different oncall rotations.