Who's on call?
As an in-demand software engineer with oncall experience at a well-regarded company, I will not consider jobs that require me to be on call.<p>Jobs with oncall don't offer more compensation than jobs that don't.<p>Scheduling my life around being able to answer a page is inconvenient, and waking up in the middle of the night is something I'd rather avoid.<p>Operational work is often not considered as important as feature development for promotions, so you feel like you're wasting your time when doing it.<p>In my experience, system quality is completely independent of whether the developers do oncall or not. But I'd welcome objective data that proves otherwise.<p>There is no upside for me as an individual to take a job with oncall responsibilities.