> RT (formerly Russia Today) is a Russian state-controlled[1] international television network funded by the federal tax budget of the Russian government.[16][17] It operates pay television or free-to-air channels directed to audiences outside of Russia, as well as providing Internet content in English, Spanish, French, German, Arabic, and Russian.
Although Sweden and Finland like to remain neutral, they have to take a side in this in order to avoid more wars, and this is the best time for them to join NATO. They can simply say they’re scared of Russian aggression and are scared their country is going to be invaded by Putin.
You it would impact public opinion if the public were Americans. Not in Russia though because Putin is a dictator and has been in power for 18 years and doesn’t care what Russians think of him.
Not to discourage you, but just so you are aware of what you’re getting into, Amazon is notoriously known for their Performance Improvement Plan (PIP). Every review cycle, you are ranked against your peers, and managers have to “PIP” a percentage of the team. Usually it’s the bottom 10%, though I’ve been hearing rumors that now it’s bottom 15%. Because of this quota, managers are forced to “fire” engineers even if they have a super star team, or unless they hire to fire, which is unfortunate but common thing at Amazon.
Amazon is a great company and just like any other company, YMMV, but I, along with several of my friends, had the most stressful, worst time of our lives while working at Amazon. Working 10-12 hour days and weekends was very common. YMMV, so negotiate wisely!
I used to work for a start up. We did not have support engineers. All tickets went through IT which was one person and then made their ways to dev team. Management wanted to save a few dollars so they didn’t hire any support engineers. Devs were expected to handle escalations on top of their daily tasks. This lead to burn out because deadlines did not move when there were multiple escalations in the same week, which lead to many of the bright engineers leaving the company. If you value your engineer’s time, have a small team to have customer issues.
It’s very difficult for young people to afford good paying jobs and be able to be debt free and save money and start families these days, and the pandemic, with the FED money printing machine, has amplified these, causing insane amounts of inflation.