Seonglae ChoOncall Compensation for Software Engineers
This issue is the second part and final article in a series about oncall. Part 1 - published last week - covers healthy oncall practices. In this issue, we dive into: Oncall philosophies across the industry. How do groups of companies approach oncall practices and compensation? Companies which pay and those that don't.
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/oncall-compensation
Oncall shift should be Tuesday to Tuesday
Normally when developers/SWEs/SRE/IT are oncall for a project, the oncall is from Monday of one week to Monday of the following week. This is sub-optimal. Instead it should be Tuesday to Tuesday. This is a 0 cost improvement to everyone’s quality of life and improves schedule accuracy.
https://arthur-johnston.com/tuesday_to_tuesday/