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Re:Oncall shift should be Tuesday to Tuesday by tdeck on Friday November 22, 2024 @11:40PM (#42219238)
At Google we used to get paid an incall bonus which was calculated at something like 1/3 your prorated salary for the non-working hours you were oncall (IIRC), up to some limit per quarter. For my team a week of oncall per quarter would max it out and net you a few thousand dollars bonus.
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Re:Oncall shift should be Tuesday to Tuesday by thaumasiotes on Saturday November 23, 2024 @04:30AM (#42220036)
> up to some limit per quarter. For my team a week of oncall per quarter would max it out

That reminds me of Amazon's abysmally bad employee discount, which was "10% off anything on the site, up to $100 / year".

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Re:Oncall shift should be Tuesday to Tuesday by kevinventullo on Saturday November 23, 2024 @06:38AM (#42220417)
Google still does this. Roughly speaking, hitting the limit in a quarter means you have <= 5 people on the rotation.
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