[algaeontoast]

If I'm not doing devOps work (I explicitly avoid this garbage) and not a founder I expect to not be on call - ever.

So basically, I don't work at companies that make their employees carry a pager etc. Life is too short for that shit.

I worked briefly at a startup shortly after it's acquisition by a FAANG. The startup's code was trash - I acknowledged while on call that I didn't exactly know what was going on after digging a while - asked for help - was then reprimanded for "not knowing the code well enough" basically because I asked for help. I left about a month after that. Again, life is too short for that shit.