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I hate on-calls. I used to love programming, building systems, making cool things. But this is about 20% of my job as a SWE in a big tech company. Now I need to

I hate on-calls. I used to love programming, building systems, making cool things. But this is about 20% of my job as a SWE in a big tech company. Now I need to maintain several fragile systems, deal with angry users, deal with management which pushes me to add features rather than making our systems more reliable... I'm staying primarily for the money but I'd rather do something else and keep programming as a hobby.

Aperocky 5y ago
> Now I need to maintain several fragile systems, deal with angry users, deal with management which pushes me to add features rather than making our systems more reliable... Only one of these is a real problem, the other 2 are essentially derived from that.