[steelegbr]

> A lot of times on-call gets stuck on these folks because they're often treated as second class citizens in the softwarescape.

Sadly spot on. For anyone that’s not been the ops side of the fence, you are expected to do major works out of hours as it’ll impact developer productivity. You can also lose your public holidays, weekends and evenings to issues while others get to switch their phone off and forget about work until they return.

It does a real number on you. Glad to be fully on the dev side of the spectrum now but some of the attitudes of interviewers I had to endure to get there… And that was with a CS degree and a truckload of IaC/glue-ware experience!