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      Roblox Sr. Software Engineer reviews

      4.1

      67% would recommend to a friend

      (44 total reviews)
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      David Baszucki

      68% approve of CEO

      52% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.8

      Compensation and benefits

      4.5

      Work/Life balance

      3.5

      Culture & values

      3.5

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.2

      Career opportunities

      3.0

      Senior management

      Sr. Software Engineer employees have rated Roblox with 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 44 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Sr. Software Engineer professionals have an excellent working experience there. Roblox is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Sr. Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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      44 reviews
      4.0
      Oct 6, 2018

      Failing middle management

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Popular products, happy "customers" :)

      Cons

      Unprofessional middle management. New people are hired at higher level while they are nowhere near match for most of the senior engineers. In some cases people with almost zero exp are hired at similar or higher level than people with 10+ years of experience. That's how failed management makes existing employees seek for other opportunities elsewhere.

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      Roblox Response
      7y
      Thank you for your feedback, which we not only value hearing, but actively use to optimize the experience for each team member. Our hiring practices, including promotions from within, are continuously under review so that individuals can build momentum doing the best work of their careers.
      3.0
      Jun 6, 2018

      Nice people, decent environment, lack of tooling

      Senior software engineer
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      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Growing like crazy People generally friendly and smart Awesome product / kids everywhere will admire you Good benefits: free lunch, 401(k) match, good insurance

      Cons

      The company has obviously grown without the influence of an effective CTO: Since teams are expected to self-organize without a common set of standards, there's a great deal of variance in code quality, hiring process, stack, project management, and titular responsibilities among teams. Little tooling, and what does exist is nonstandard - everything from pulling source to testing on staging or pushing updates to production is needlessly painful. Weird restrictions on # of concurrent users accessing staging resources which bottleneck feature development. Lots of intractable tech debt left over from bad architectural decisions in the past - slower velocity per engineer than many companies in the valley. Devops and Corp IT are understaffed and lack automated tools for the volume of people they're bringing in. Culture and advancement glorify tenure over aptitude: some senior people who should be in different roles.

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      Roblox Response
      7y
      Thank you for your thorough feedback - it gives us a lot of notes, which have been shared internally, to work with in improving the employee experience. It is our goal that Roblox team members are able to do the best work of their careers here, so we’re committed to continuously refining processes, technology, and organization around shared company goals. If you’d like to share more, feel free to email feedback@roblox.com.
      5.0
      Jun 4, 2018

      Great place to be

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Roblox is a very comfortable place to work at. All usual stuff that you may see at other successful companies are present: snacks, paid meals, flexible/unlimited vacation, 401K matching etc. Personally I chose Roblox over facebook and google not only because I got a better (or matching) offer from Roblox, but also because I felt that I'd be lost in a huge army of Facebook/Google employees possibly working on something not so important. At Roblox I work now on something that instantly affects entire platform and tens of millions of players and I like that. At google/facebook I'd be getting shares that can be sold for cash any moment, however their value is unlikely to increase tenfold over 4 years. With the way Roblox grows I'm fairly confident value of my options will increase more than 10-x over 4 years of vesting period. Yes, Roblox is not a public company, but it's on a good trajectory to become one: we grow consistently over multiple years in revenue, in user count and retention; Roblox just started to expand worldwide and we have a good CEO and top leadership team. I've been at Roblox just a bit less that 2 years and I'm happy that I chose Roblox over all other options when I decided to move to SF Bay area.

      Cons

      Perhaps our release cycle isn't something that I'm happy to deal with or our versioning system. Some senior managers are afraid/not willing to try some ideas, e.g. Roblox is not a small agile start up anymore. So, join us and help us make it better!

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      Roblox Response
      7y
      Thank you for your feedback as it helps us to continuously improve the employee experience. We’re glad you chose us over other leaders in the Bay Area - for all the reasons you listed and more. We have shared your notes about the release cycle, agility, and metrics as they relate to titles and promotion, but if you’d like to dig in further, email feedback@roblox.com.
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