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I have heard whispers of this, and the mention of common on call hours seems to lend it some credibility


Yes, seriously legacy software (still a lot of Perl in their production web code, including ancient Perl template engines) and the on-calls are truly bad. AWS is more modern, but still not entirely awesome from what I've heard.

On the plus side, hiring people out of there after a year is usually pretty easy.


What are the typical on-calls?


You are paged most nights and often more than once a night during your rotation and you are on rotation a lot.




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