Roblox reviews

3.8

53% would recommend to a friend

(512 total reviews)
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David Baszucki

54% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

Roblox has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 512 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).

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512 reviews
2.0
Dec 27, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Even from what happened, I can't say it's a bad place to work. First of all, this is a young and old company. It's 10 years long company and has a lot of young people, so feels very fresh. On Friday, we will invite our younger user to take a tour of our working space, that's very warming. And sometimes we will also invite a child with a serious illness to take a tour here. That's especially warming to me because for my whole life, I have been facing death followed by my illness. That's why my conversation with those children could really be inspiring. Second, the organization is kind of flat. In theory, you could just walk up to anyone in the company and talk to them. I would recommend everybody try to talk to CEO at least once. It will be a very inspiring moment. No money could be compared to that kind of experience. It will have a very large impact on your later life. But I have felt the pressure from my director and manager which made me extremely nervous when actually talk to our CEO, after all, he is the CEO, the most special man in the company. Third, you have free lunch, gym access, and other benefits. I have to say a word or two with lunch. Don't get it wrong, I am very serious about food. So, let me put it this way, most of the time, the food here is really really bad. For a few times, the food is good. For some other moment, the food is good, but not cooked. Can you believe they will serve not fully cooked chicken thigh? If that scares you, then you are being naive. Not fully cooked pig meat, raw rice, raw noodles, and hotpot, you name it. Even my coworker, who is way less picky than me, will have to make a sandwich to avoid other "meals" provided. If you are a vegetarian, you will always find something you like. Fourth, work is most challenging and that's why people can grow. No pain no gain, remember this? Here, depending on your job, you will be using all kinds of language, to support our product on pc, mac, iOS, Android, and Xbox. Oh, BTW, if you are driving, we have plenty of parking space. I mean, plenty of parking space. Since our headquarters locates in a very nice place, you will have a very enjoyable environment to take a walk when you need to get away from work a little.

Cons

It definitely makes my heart bleed to talk about this part. One of our values is "get it done". So a lot of people and I would work at the weekend to get stuff done. From director to manager, to the employee. Everybody would do that. And I know some will work like that, every weekend. And that's one of the potential reasons that got me fired. I was diagnosed with a kidney issue when I was young. Born from a poor family means never had money to cure it. So, for most of my life, I was waiting for death one way or another. But I am a proud person, I will never never be treated like I am less than others simply because I was never fully healthy. So, most of the time, I wouldn't talk about my disease, in fact, I don't really know anyone who will talk about his or her disease all day. So when I was hired by Roblox, I was extremely appreciative of the chance they give me. It stands to reason for a person like me, working at the weekend? No problem. I never and will never complain about that. But it seems that in the end affects my health. It seems from the year 2019, I have gradually lost my thinking abilities. I can remember I requested to meet the CEO once. I asked him, what's the most important ability to create such a meaningful company. He said: "Never give up". For a person, whose whole life has been working in darkness, I know what's Never give up. I know what that means. And at that time, the toxic seems already build up in my body, that I can't think of any response. How useless I was. There is a saying that goes, misfortune never goes alone. Then everything seemed to crash little by little while I couldn't really figure out what happened. I have been taking medicines that my family bought in China and shipped to me, but it seems in the end, my time was running out. During that period, one of the co-workers notices my condition when we all were trying to get something to ship. He said this to me: "Have you forgot what you have learned?" And then suggested me to rest awhile. I tried, but my eyes couldn't really read code line by line. No kidding there. And then my condition sometimes was a little better, sometimes was worse. In the end, I was fired due to poor performance. HR insists the reason I was fired was due to poor performance for sure. It's like fire a runner for running slow when he broke his leg; An NBA player fired because he couldn't score while he lost his hand; A taxidriver was fired because he couldn't get enough customers when he has lost his eyesight. My life since then has been hell. You can imaging you are living in an actual nightmare. Until I finally couldn't hold on anymore, I was in the hospital. Such a fool I was, always trying to hold on. I do remember a sentence the HR was trying to fire me: "It doesn't matter if you sign the documents or not, it will be executed". I have told them, I was sick in the email. I was angry, despair, and sad. I would never say something like this to a patient who looks about to die. With that, I have no choice but to search for a legal method. I have tried to talk to HR when I was finally recovered. But it still seems, talking won't do much. After all, if apology works, why do we need policers? If you read all mine comment, thanks. I will probably update later. This is my biggest complaint. The company's goal is to powering imagination. A murderer will not be able to build a society that people loving each other. Will the company be able to power imagination for children all over the world, when my story has such a sad outcome?

1.0
Feb 8, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Free lunch -Company events -Typical perks at any tech company

Cons

I worked on the recruiting/sourcing team. There were alot of re-orgs and restructuring so your manager could've changed every 6 months to a year and having to get placed on a new team. The recruiting process here was extremely broken and biased. We were encouraged to look at candidates from top companies, top schools (which has been proven to be a lack of diversity - in terms of socioeconomic backgrounds, ethnicity, and life experiences etc. they don't care as long as they are "the best of the best" at Roblox) They also wanted you to funnel as many candidates as possible just to string them along to say no or the job changed or is no longer available. Very elitist environment. The recruiting org was also very clique. They also did unethical layoffs, lured you into a meeting with your manager and then had some HR director you've never met and the director of the org lay you off without any explanation and without your manager there, didn't matter if you hit 100% of your goals (which was the case you can see everyones hires and acceptances across the board) some recruiters or sourcers had no hires for 2+ years and they were still kept on the team. If you look at which companies they were from nepotism strongly plays a case here.

1.0
Feb 24, 2019

Worst Place to work

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Kitchen is stocked - Lunch provided

Cons

- Managers intention is not to grow Employees. Lots of politics and if you can play that well, this place wont be suffocating. - Micro Management - Funnily when i left, I spoke to HR and told them the reason I am leaving is my manager and the response I got was "You are the 3rd person leaving for the same reason" - They dont do anything to change the culture of the place. But when they are interviewing you, they provide this amazing picture of the company and culture which is not true. Would not recommend this place to anyone.

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Thank you for your feedback, which we value because it helps us to continuously hear from our employees on how to build a workplace where you can do the best work of your career. We've shared your notes about micromanagement, culture, and office politics, but we welcome you to elaborate further offline by contacting feedback@roblox.com.
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