Answer: Is Working For the Gambling Industry a Black Mark?
A recent Ask Slashdot posed the question “is working for the gambling industry a black mark?” The answer: Yes and No.
If you apply for jobs being vetted by morally superior -word removed- who pine for the “old days” of hunting witches in Salem , probably yes.
If not, then no. As someone who has done a lot of consulting for various gambling-related businesses, I can tell you that any software development company should prize former casino/gambling-related coders (that leave on good terms). It takes a lot of pedantic coding, edge-case handling, and vociferous documentation to make that industry run “right”, and those skills are hard to bake into someone.
I can’t speak to other countries, but in the US there are very few jobs that will – in and of themselves – cause you to get passed over for prospective employment. Except maybe working for the Revenue Service. We really don’t like them.
