[wikibob]

It's a very competitive labor market. For employers.

If you are highly skilled, you are highly in demand. Therefore, demand good treatment.

Tech industry compensation has never been higher: http://levels.fyi/comp.html

Google pays for on-call hours. You are credited with 33.3% time for each hour on call if you have a 30 minute response requirement, and 66.6% time for each hour on call if you have a 5 minute response requirement. These can be taken as extra holiday, or cashed out. [0]

[0] Among other public sources: https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/41v0ol/i...

[guitarbill]

The really dumb thing is paying for overtime works great. Some younger employees want to do it for the extra cash or vacation for a longer holiday. I know there were times I wanted to work on a holiday day/bank holiday to save up time in lieu.

The problem is companies where default on-call becomes part of the culture. They also have little incentive to fix terrible ops. I hear AWS can be like this, depending on the service.