Great place to be - Senior Software Engineer Roblox Employee Review

5.0
Jun 4, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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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
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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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