Do any companies pay for 24 hours or any amount extra when you’re on call? Amazon doesn’t.
HCL does - most FTE positions don’t
Amazon reimburses you phone bill if you’re on call roster. Same for Microsoft. You can claim every month, not just when you’re physically on call. I know Amazon you’re on call almost every month because of 2 pizza team policy. Microsoft you’re on call once every 6 months depending on the size of team.
Not if you are a full time employee. However, Genentech will allow you to take a day off if you have had substantial documented on-call coverage off-hours. Make sure to document your time spent working off-hours so that it can be managed properly.
Google's on call pay is pretty good. It's like 60% of base pay per hour worked outside of working hours. Really better than nothing
I’m pretty sure the DOL says you need to be paid, google “Engaged To Wait”, Sams rules they use for firemen that are sitting around waiting.
I am on call for tier-2 service. When I am on call my salary doubles for the week (40+ hours). Tier-1 gets more, tier-3 gets less.
And how many calls/hours do you spend extra for on-call ?
70-80% of business hours. Average 1 hour outside of business hours during 7 days. we don't get paged often. The only inconvenience of being on call is that you have to be close to laptop with internet.
Microsoft doesn't pay extra for being on-call
We don't get shit
LinkedIn pays SRE's $650 extra for a 24/7 oncall rotation.
Not the swe?