Unless you're hiring 3-4x the engineers, then this doesn't scale. I would much rather occasionally be paged at night than have to be on call all or even most o

Unless you're hiring 3-4x the engineers, then this doesn't scale. I would much rather occasionally be paged at night than have to be on call all or even most of the time. Even if that "on call" was only 9-5, getting distracted and losing half a day to tracking down the latest flaky test or owner for a failing dependency really adds up and makes it significantly more difficult to do my day job. When I'm oncall, I'm oncall 24/7 for a week (30 minute SLO) and the expectation is that the amount of non-oncall tasks I'm able to get done that week is significantly impacted. I'm fortunate to work on a team that acknowledges that reality; I know many people, even at large software companies who should know better, whose management is far less reasonable.