> It’s an unwritten rule that as a salaried employee in Big Tech, you are effectively on call all the time.
This, right here, is where OP lost. It takes some discipline from management to admit there are only three options:
- There is a formal oncall rotation of people properly equipped to solve all problems.
- Everyone is oncall all the time.
- Whatever you make can only be expected to work in core office hours AND your users understand this is not production level.
In my seven years in Google I've only been in the first and third category. Nobody ever suggested I should do overtime. But I know there are teams in the middle category and people there eventually end up miserable just like OP.
This, right here, is where OP lost. It takes some discipline from management to admit there are only three options:
- There is a formal oncall rotation of people properly equipped to solve all problems.
- Everyone is oncall all the time.
- Whatever you make can only be expected to work in core office hours AND your users understand this is not production level.
In my seven years in Google I've only been in the first and third category. Nobody ever suggested I should do overtime. But I know there are teams in the middle category and people there eventually end up miserable just like OP.