Is Working For the Gambling Industry a Black Mark?

An anonymous reader writes 'I'm a recent university graduate and I have been offered a software developer position in a company that supplies software to the gambling and betting industry. At first I was very excited about the opportunity, however, a few of my friends have told me that working for the gambling industry will put a permanent black mark on my career as a software developer. I don't know that many people in the industry with experience in hiring. Google has not helped, and everybody else I ask doesn't know. So I'm asking Slashdot. In your experience is this true? When you hire developers, is the fact that they worked for a gambling company a big turn off? Also, I'm currently in the UK, but would like the freedom of working in US or somewhere else later on in life. So experience from anywhere in the world is welcome.'

Comments

Re:porn?

[tepples]

Gambling, pretty much by definition, has to work with people who don't know what they are doing.

Are you talking about Vegas gambling or Wall Street gambling?

What will be your difference?

[Max_W]

One person can make a difference. What difference in the world you will be making while working on a gambling company?

What will be your contribution to a human cause?

Imagine you are to die in a year or two (it may happen with everyone). What people will say about you? This? "He helped a gambling scam to cheat people big time of their money with his excellent scripts."

Re:Not a black mark

[Kokuyo]

It's the company, too. It's the difference between getting things done or getting buried in bureaucracy and stupid management ideas and then being blamed for the failure of said ideas.

I agree that the colleagues are very important. But you can kill the best team with enough bad management decisions.

As for 'black marks', I'd wager a professional and legal adult or gambling company will be a pro on your resume. As was said previously, those are usually bleeding edge in technology and/or security aspects. And if the guy doing the interview starts wagging his eyebrows at you, it doesn't bode well for his company's professionalism.