Oncall responsiblities itself are not terrible... assuming the oncall is setup in sane way. But more often than not it isn't. Right now I'm SRE in FAANG and th

Oncall responsiblities itself are not terrible... assuming the oncall is setup in sane way. But more often than not it isn't. Right now I'm SRE in FAANG and the deal is quite sweet: we get paid for non-business hours, we are oncall only during daytime, I can exchange my oncall compensation for extra holiday. We also have enough time to fix recurring issues, remove noise, etc. But: I would never do unpaid oncall again. I would also think twice (or thrice) before agreeing for night shifts. As it turns out putting out fires at 3 AM can burn out entire team pretty fast.