Rising and Supporting the Roblox Staff

At Roblox, our mission is to attach a billion folks with optimism and civility. We notice this mission is simply potential by way of relentless innovation, pushed by our wonderful workers and the processes behind how we work. The Roblox developer neighborhood, over 12 million robust, works in live performance with us, offering the inventive content material that drives our progress.

Our persons are our most essential asset, and we strongly consider that our innovation is simply potential by constructing a workforce that embodies a broad vary of abilities, views and backgrounds. Roblox seeks the perfect and brightest expertise. We’re consistently striving to make sure that our workforce displays the depth and breadth of experiences, identities and backgrounds that outline our platform. We’re pleased with the tradition and other people apply we’ve constructed, but we all know there may be extra to do. 

We’re dedicated to creating Roblox the perfect, most inclusive place to work wherever. We’ve a robust basis and, in shut partnership with our workers, we’ll continue learning and evolving as we be certain that we’re the perfect place to work for everybody. And our work in direction of this objective won’t ever cease.

And so I wish to summarize what we do to draw, retain, advance and, crucially, help an expansive, numerous worker base.

OUTREACH & RECRUITING

We’re repeatedly trying to find revolutionary folks to affix Roblox and assist us construct our platform. We make investments closely in reaching out to potential candidates. This consists of an additional deal with candidates with numerous backgrounds and views which might be underrepresented in tech. We’ve constructed a sourcing crew that makes a speciality of participating with candidates from much less represented teams, which incorporates collaborations with organizations like Grace Hopper and AfroTech. With a lot of our friends equally targeted on constructing numerous pipelines, the competitors for this expertise is fierce. That’s why we’re persevering with to develop and improve this crew, with assets on this space on observe to triple over the course of 2023. As well as, our government recruiting crew is targeted on constructing relationships and sourcing expertise from numerous backgrounds to proceed driving extra illustration in management positions throughout Roblox.

That’s just one piece in our holistic effort to create a sturdy and numerous expertise acquisition program. We consistently measure and assess our recruiting funnel to detect and treatment any bias. We’re so enthusiastic about this that, in 2020, we acquired an organization referred to as Imbellus that excelled at constructing legitimate, dependable, and honest evaluation know-how. Through the use of the simulation-based evaluation system first developed by Imbellus, we’re capable of develop the pool of candidates we supply from and scale back our reliance on typical early-sourcing standards utilized by most recruiting organizations. This has allowed us to scale back or eradicate a few of the alerts of unconscious bias that may leak into the recruiting course of when firms depend on long-standing networks and strategies for locating expertise. Our interview coaching additionally features a deal with unconscious bias and over 80 p.c of managers have taken that coaching.

Equally, we’re pleased with the truth that we now not take a look at the faculty or college the place our new school graduate and intern candidates apply from. For instance, lately we’ve seen a marked enhance in intern hires coming from universities aside from Ivy League colleges or the highest 25 pc science packages. Consequently, we’ve seen the proportion of interns coming from establishments aside from traditionally elite colleges rise from 32 p.c in 2021 to 48 p.c in 2022. Diversifying which colleges we recruit from is only a begin, however it gives a basis we’re excited to construct on.

IN THE WORKPLACE

Our efforts to create a welcoming atmosphere wealthy with completely different backgrounds and views don’t finish as soon as somebody has joined our firm. Respecting the neighborhood is one in all our foundational values, and applies simply as a lot to how we deal with our customers and clients because it does to how we deal with each other. Civility and respect are central to our method to inclusion within the office; it’s the one manner we are able to guarantee all workers can carry their “greatest selves” to work every day.

Consistent with these values, we try to create as many contact factors as potential to take our workers’ pulse and make it possible for folks really feel that they’re revered and appreciated and that they’ve alternatives to develop and thrive with Roblox. That’s why we’ve inbuilt some ways for workers to share ideas on how we’re doing as an organization. These embrace our Weekly Stand Up & Ask Me Something (AMA) classes, the place we help open and unscripted Q&A with our leaders and all workers. 

As well as, we host Listening Periods led by our Folks crew, in addition to our month-to-month CEO AMA and confidential suggestions channels. We even have an open-door coverage for talking with our leaders, and we now have integrated checks and balances within the types of upward supervisor suggestions and satisfaction surveys. We conduct a company-wide Range, Inclusion and Belonging survey to know worker sentiment and obtain insights confidentially. And at last, we offer an nameless reporting system for workers that goes on to our worker relations crew and, as wanted, as much as our board.

We additionally try to construct a system of steady suggestions to assist be certain that persons are being handled pretty and empathetically, and we swiftly tackle any considerations which might be raised. We would like Roblox to be the place the place you’ll be taught greater than wherever else, and we are able to solely make it possible for’s the case when folks really feel seen, heard and revered.

As a part of this, we help employee-led Affinity Teams that enable folks to search out and construct communities with their friends primarily based on shared identities and pursuits. We’ve over 15 teams, and we offer firm assets for audio system, gatherings and workshops, in addition to funding for actions or occasions that fall outdoors of those areas. 

Roblox is powered by individuals who wish to work on novel issues and who carry a systems-based, inventive method to their work. Our persons are consistently bettering on our collective means to innovate and execute whereas residing our values, and our efforts to create an inclusive, welcoming and empathetic office immediately feed into this. We’ve been intentional in constructing many avenues for connecting, for suggestions and to drive transparency. That being stated, we’re all the time on the lookout for extra methods to do that higher and can proceed to work carefully with our workers.

TRACKING OUR PROGRESS

In our efforts to construct a inventive, engaged, revolutionary and numerous workforce, we try to be considerate and intentional. And the identical goes to how we benchmark our progress. Whereas I would be the first to say that we all the time have extra work to do, as we take a look at the info on worker efficiency and progress throughout the firm for indicators of disparities, we wish to share a couple of key stats that replicate the place we’re right now and the place we’ve come from during the last a number of years.

• Taking a look at skilled growth throughout the firm, we’ve discovered proof of a good and goal course of, with promotion charges statistically equal throughout gender, racial and ethnic traces. In our most up-to-date evaluation of the promotion charges of men and women within the second half of 2022, 13% of girls and 9% of males at Roblox have been promoted.
• Furthermore, as of June 30, 2023, about 30% of leaders at Roblox are girls. This, in fact, isn’t but the place we wish to be. However it represents a 40% enhance in girls in management positions from June 2020. We’re happy with the progress we’ve made and are excited to proceed constructing on it.
• Pay fairness can also be important for our tradition, and we design our compensation methods with a deal with equity, consistency, and equality. Final yr, we launched what shall be an annual evaluation of our pay fairness through a third-party vendor, and located that Roblox pays workers the identical throughout each gender and race.
• As of Could 2023, 64 p.c of our workers are workers of coloration. That is up from 57 p.c in 2020. We consider it is a results of our broad recruiting outreach, coupled with our equitable hiring practices.
• We use industry-standard worker satisfaction and engagement surveys to measure how our folks really feel at work and have persistently discovered that our workers are overwhelmingly happy and proud to work for Roblox, and that this sentiment holds throughout identities, with no vital distinction between our feminine and male workers. For instance, over 90% of Roblox workers agreed or strongly agreed with the assertion, “I’m proud to work for this firm.”
• Each feminine and male workers charge their managers equally in all areas coated by our worker satisfaction survey. This suggestions is usually constant throughout our groups — together with workers in technical roles throughout engineering and product.

LOOKING AHEAD

Our work impacts not simply the lives of the two,600 folks working right here right now, but in addition the over 66 million day by day energetic customers who use our platform to attach and categorical themselves. We embrace the accountability to help an area the place folks might be who they’re (or who they wish to be) and be accepted. Internally, we all know we have to stroll the stroll in addition to speak the speak.

Though we’re making progress, we all know there may be extra to do — for us and for the {industry} as a complete. We’re dedicated to repeatedly bettering the methods we discover, develop and retain workers from numerous backgrounds, the atmosphere we offer for all workers to thrive, and finally the product we’re constructing to allow tens of millions the world over to attach, be taught and are available collectively.