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I have an opportunity to move into an all-remote role that would require me to be on call 24x7 for one week every 3 or 3.5 months. I asked about the frequency o
by sylens 4y ago
I have an opportunity to move into an all-remote role that would require me to be on call 24x7 for one week every 3 or 3.5 months. I asked about the frequency of incidents that required the on call person to be pages and it looked like on a bad week, it was about 7 total - a good week was 0. I’m personally torn on whether or not I’ll be okay with the on-call lifestyle so I appreciated this piece for giving me some food for thought.
- steveBK123 4y agoThat level of rotation is not a deal breaker in itself. You can basically look at it as 3~4 rotations per year, likely 1 or maybe 2 bad weeks per year. I've never been on a big enough team to have a rotation that wide, more typical is every 4/6/8 weeks. Beyond that teams usually build out globally and your rotation remains as often but is fewer hours per day (ie - US covers til 8pm when APAC comes in). The bigger concern arguably is how noisy weekends are?
- sylens 4y agoIt would be for an internal environment, so weekends would be hopefully quiet. The incident log going back a month or two showed incidents mainly in the EU and US workdays, around 5 AM Eastern to 7 PM Eastern.
- zeckalpha 4y agoAnother option would be to be oncall every 1.5 months and get paged between 0 and 3.5 times, by splitting the rotation in two.