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I'd bet that you're not on one of the profit center teams... And that you don't have an oncall rotation.

I worked in one of the ads teams at Google. I quit a few weeks ago, with reasons similar to the ones described in the article. I was giving just way too much of my life away for that work...

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I am an SRE so I am in a rotation, I'm actually oncall right now.

I was in Corp and now I'm in Cloud. I haven't interacted with anyone in ads so I am not familiar with the experience. Do you think your peers had a similar experience as you?

My peers on my team, and on our sister teams (we share the same manager's manager) have all had similar experiences in that: there is so much on everyone's plate, there is so much tech debt, so much to maintain, yet so much to build, so much that breaks, so much surface area to cover, and never enough time or energy.

Interesting… Out of curiosity, do people in profit centers get paid more to compensate for the stress?

I’m thinking in terms of Wall Street banks, where for example traders might have very stressful jobs but receive huge bonuses that far outstrip what the more relaxed back office roles get.

I can't speak for Google, but, at my most recent employer, people on the ads team told me their on-call is pretty hellish. There's no pay differential for switching teams that I know of, either.

there’s no difference in pay other than the fact that anyone with an oncall rotation gets a minor salary bump

Compensation at FAANGs are more or less fixed by level and location. However, people with more stressful teams tend to get promoted much more quickly.

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