I might consider it tbh.
Ask HN: Does having a betting/gambling company in your CV hurt your career?
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#22I would be more comfortable with gambling/betting than someone that worked at Facebook.
it's kind of interesting how i have started to look differently at ex-FAANG employees compared to how I used to view them only like 3 years ago. For me, it's less about someone's morals because look, if you're going to get paid 500k--there are very few people in the world that wouldn't take that. It's more about the fact that after reading Blind, the culture behind FAANG just turns me off so much. The optimizing your…
Basing a company's culture on Blind comments is like basing it on the movie Office Space. Sure there's a subset of scenarios that mimic them, but they're both ultimately characitures of the actual job.
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#23IMO Pornhub or a gambling company is much more ethical than Boeing or Lockheed. Just list it but as a regualted online betting platform, focus on the tech not the gambling.
As someone who has been in both industries (defense and gambling), be honest with the product. Tech can be nice and it has interesting challenges but if your growth is outside the tech, then you are going to struggle.
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#24I've worked for several betting companies, and I don't think it hurt me anyhow. And once you have experience with the industry, other betting companies are more likely to pick you when hiring. The same is true for banking (but probably also other industries).
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#25I'm going to try and keep this as dispassionate as possible. I did a project with a UK gambling company. I have tried to do everything in my power to expunge it from my work history as well as, more importantly, my moral history. If you need the money, need the money, then it's up to you. But it is an industry that preys on the vulnerable.
I was at one for a handful of months. It was way grosser than I imagined it would be. This one also happened to be a subsidiary of a major far-right media organization, which didn’t help, but the gambling arm per se was totally disgusting. I now know I couldn’t work on ads at any major company, too. Same kind of harmful optimization dynamic. (Incidentally, as I was able to gather, a great deal of money in sports gene…
I worked for an online casino for a few months. Our first major meeting was a brainstorming session to take advantage of the gaming fad to get those kids into betting.
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#26I don’t think it would be seen as a negative by most, I believe there are lots of interesting scaling challenges etc. in that industry.
It’s more important you feel comfortable with the decision. I once was in your position and decided against it as it didn’t feel ethically quite right to me, and I never regretted that decision. However if I had really needed work at the time, I’d have taken it so no judgement. It’s legal and regulated in the UK at least.
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#27I hire crypto bros all the time. One of my partners advises porn companies. Who you are and whether you can do the job, matters more. If you’re sleazy, I probably wouldn’t hire you, but that is a personality trait rather than your employment history. I have a unique unpronounceable first name. I got passed over for interviews all the time. I took it as “if they’re that type of person, I wouldn’t want to work for them…
Are you saying your first name is actually unpronounceable(I’m thinking similar to Elon Musk’s child’s name) or merely hard for most people in whatever area you’re in to pronounce?
Re: Ask HN: Does having a betting/gambling company in your CV hurt your career?
#28ask those who have msft or apple in their CVs... even google...
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#29No
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#30I always had a similar question about this but with adult tech companies.
Like for example, if I worked at P0rnhub as a web developer if that would be a huge issue if I wanted to switch jobs later? Not in the adult sector.
I probably would not tell my family that’s for sure.