My friend worked for Amazon in India (software). He was often on 24x7 "on calls", which is touted as "good" here (because how else will you "learn"), during his 3rd or 4th week. By third night he was vomiting and had to visit the doctor. His manager called and had asked whether he had brought his laptop with him. His mother forced him to resign next day (he is from an extremely rich kind of family though). It is common here in most companies and among famous MNCs it is especially known in Amazon and Uber in India.

What shocks more is these are the companies that can "follow the sun" w/o breaking a drop of fucking sweat!

I have lost too many interviews just because I clearly asked for this, I always do, and I am doing it even now while I have been without a job after taking a year gap (which makes getting calls already difficult esp. with this AI and vibe onslaught). I am not giving up on this. I personally have never agreed to this which has caused lots of confrontations and stress(!!); a major source of my burnout WITHOUT ever doing the 24x7 on-call - so by just fighting it and keeping it away from me alone I was burnt out to the bits. It took me finally seeking medical advice to realise I was burnt out.

I hope this is not sounding like dramatic but even now when I have been resting, travelling for a year the mere mention of words like Splunk, VictorOps (same as Splunk iirc), PagerDuty give me minor trigger attack kinda sensation - make me very agitated.

But this is so common here. So common that it is considered one of the realities, truths. Yet, I have never understood, how, how can one agree to this? How? Is it some kind of social (if not racial) slave mentality? Is it some kind of grand coercion that they have no escape from? Or maybe it's just generation after generation subjecting the next generation to what they were subjected to while the stakeholders in the richer countries (because that is the structure) demand of this implicitly as they are stopped by health and safety laws from subjecting their underlings in their own developed home nations maybe.