> your manager ... asks if you would like to join the rotation.
I don't think I've worked anywhere in the last decade where I was not part of the on-call rotation. It's been obligatory, maybe because I've worked at small-to-medium sized companies. I'm on call this week, in fact.
On-call weeks are my least favorite though. It's always nice when my rotation includes a holiday because our users are only active during normal business hours, so we never have issues when everyone's out of the office.
I wouldn't say it's without pay. It's in the job description when you're hired and the pay should compensate for that. SREs are typically paid very well.
> your manager ... asks if you would like to join the rotation.
I don't think I've worked anywhere in the last decade where I was not part of the on-call rotation. It's been obligatory, maybe because I've worked at small-to-medium sized companies. I'm on call this week, in fact.
On-call weeks are my least favorite though. It's always nice when my rotation includes a holiday because our users are only active during normal business hours, so we never have issues when everyone's out of the office.
Oncall is complete bullshit and the fact that we have standardised this without Additional pay has greatly affected my life working in big tech.
I wouldn't say it's without pay. It's in the job description when you're hired and the pay should compensate for that. SREs are typically paid very well.
On call rotations are part of basically every engineering team that owns any production service at tech companies, not just SRE