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      Roblox

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      Roblox reviews

      3.8

      54% would recommend to a friend

      (514 total reviews)
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      David Baszucki

      54% approve of CEO

      47% positive business outlook

      Ratings by demographic groups

      Roblox has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 514 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Roblox employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

      Reviews by job title

      514 reviews
      5.0
      Jun 8, 2018

      Great company that makes frustrating decisions because they are privately-owned and in an impenetrable monopoly.

      Intern
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Flexible structure, modern company, a feeling that you’re a part of something big. Good youthful culture. Roblox is amazing company with tons of amazing people and is a great place to work. Its potential is truly underestimated by the public and the media. This “kid’s platform” has games already competing with top steam titles in terms of player counts and revenue, and it is still growing. Roblox has an incredibly liquid corporate structure and that makes it a fun place for flexible people who like to take initiative to work.

      Cons

      Roblox maintains a virtually impenetrable monopoly due to countless patents and ten years of platform development. That allows senior management to be lazy and make serious mistakes but still the company keeps growing. A lot of the company (mostly business side) doesn’t really have a good grasp of what the platform is. This leads to frustratingly poor business decisions that are completely out of touch with the UGC nature of the company.

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      Roblox Response
      7y
      Thank you for your thorough review - we’re listening and learning. We’re proud of the user generated content that our developers continue to build, and with the demand for all things Roblox, our merchandising agreement was icing on the cake for excited consumers. If you’d like to dig in further regarding any ideas you have for the future of Roblox, email us at feedback@roblox.com.
      3.0
      Jun 6, 2018

      Nice people, decent environment, lack of tooling

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      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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