[JoshTriplett]

> Candidate: “How is the on-call load?” Me: This person may be burning out and looking for a place with some stability.

Or this person has encountered companies that massively overwork people and is looking for a place that isn't constantly in emergency crunch mode. Hearing this question, I wouldn't assume a person who's burned out; I'd assume a person who has been burned or knows someone who has.

[eschneider]

Or, I dunno, they want to know what the on-call load is like because that tells one a lot about the level of problems in an org (though not so much about the cause.)