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I agree with this, however companies should pay extra for the on-call hours. In our team, I am on-call once every 6 weeks. So I am "working" 9 weekends a year. As long as I am paid…

This is mostly a cost saving technique that companies quietly incorporated as if it is quite normal. Anybody who complained or criticized were branded as not being team players or …

Why not give devs a machine that is still fast after installing all that?

Not really. A really, really good laptop can be given for 1% of the cost of paying the developer. IMO, it would be best to provide the best tool for the trade.

Well, they are paying me a shitload of money as salary. That is what that doesn't make sense to me.

This argument is correct only if you're testing the end-user component on the dev machine. I work on backend services.

That is a valid point, but in my case I am developing backend services. I work on 3 services, so most of the time I have 3 instances of Visual Studio running. Then outlook, chrome,…

Companies are willing to pay big money to developers, however they issue crappy laptops as development machines. Laptops are designed for mobility, not for performance. Sure, you c…