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Re:Google App Engine and Cloud Datastore Outages by sethvargo on Monday November 11, 2019 @08:18AM (#21504574)
Google pays on-call engineers extra. Other companies often pay ENOCs in time off. I know a few only compensate IF you’re paged off-hours (e.g. paged at 3am, incident resolves at 6am, you get 3 hours of vacation time).
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Re:Google App Engine and Cloud Datastore Outages by abeppu on Monday November 11, 2019 @12:01PM (#21506428)
> I know a few only compensate IF you’re paged off-hours

Yeah, that seems like it would lead to misaligned incentives (as well as under-price the opportunity costs of being on-call).

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