18 karma · joined April 2, 2022
On call is a symptom of poorly run company. It's a great signal that you should run far away from any place that requires it.
Most software isn't as critical as we think, and the software that is, is expensive enough to have a properly sized staff.
On call exists for the same reason game devs are paid shit and open source exists... Software engineers don't value themselves properly and love giving away free labor.
Stop giving away free labor. On call is a scam for companies to get away with not staffing properly.
Paraphrased comments I've heard in the past month.
"Yes our small margin is always 8px but it didn't look good in this confirmation modal so I changed it, that's no big deal right?" (a designer that doesn't design based on the design system is a joke)
"Here is a link to the figma file ... no not that one, it's the 5th one from the left after you scroll way to the bottom" (I've never told a designer to start up a dev environment and figure out where the code is for whatever feature they are designing, why do I have to open figma and hunt around?)
This thread is bizarre and cult like.
Did you forget what you wrote?
Crypto has none, it's a feature to some but a deal breaker for most.
I love these take homes with discussions/presentations but companies keep insisting on the zoom coding over google docs route.