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by foxyv 3813 days ago
Developer on-call every 8 weeks or so. 90% of the job is checking logs and saying "Yup it's working" or "Nope $VENDOR is down again." Get paged on average 3 times a cycle. One time I actually got to fix some code. That was awesome. Just feels really weird that no one in the tier 1 center can check logs at 6AM. But then again there is a lot of turnover.

Don't get paid for On-Call, but the job is super flexible with hours so we get flex time which is well worth it. I like being able to take a nice 2 hour lunch every once in a while.