[option_greek]

I would say its a superiority complex : thinking software engineers are paid well and hence need to be ready to sacrifice more to maintain this superior position.

And of course also because the risks of bad or interrupted sleep is not recognised widely and mostly ignored.

[drewcoo]

Which is why you can also see the exec team paged in the middle of the night, right? Because they're paid well and need to sacrifice?

[joshuamorton]

Yes, and had their vacations cut short and other such things than rank and file employees would tolerate far less.

[strken]

Every oncall rotation I've been in for the past five years has had C-suite executives in it. Earlier the CTO, currently the CEO.

[Invictus0]

The executive team elects to do it, and they also get a fuckload of stock incentive to do it. Not the case for lower-rung engineers.

[SpicyLemonZest]

I’ve definitely seen my exec team get paged in the middle of the night, and they didn’t give any indication that it was unreasonable or uncommon. If anything they seemed to enjoy it, which to be honest I do as well. Being woken up to solve a problem (on rare occasion) can be validation that you’re an important person working on important things.