Process
I applied online. The process took 2 months.
The recruiter I worked with was Nate Leslie. He was polite in the phone calls, but the follow-ups and conversations were very poor. There was a lot of thrashing in emails and correspondence, with long periods of silence and sudden follow-ups with fast requests to interview quickly.
There were times that the onsite required me to be in the office and then that was changed. The director-level interview was nothing like what the recruiter said it was. He was completely wrong.
There was no follow-up after the interview when results were not good, nor any feedback or suggestions. I did close to 6-7 rounds of interviews. How about a 15-minute phone call to tell me what happened and why Roblox did not go with me?
Questions
Deep dive on Ads Project
- Director level was very strong behavioral mapped to company culture.
- Technical was multi-round engineering on directory folder to a LRU cache.
- Coding question got more difficult with each round including multi-threading.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 13 interview experiences for the Roblox Principal Software Engineer role.
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Roblox's interview process for their Principal Software Engineer roles is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.
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Candidates reported having very good feelings for Roblox's Principal Software Engineer interview process.
Roblox Work Experiences
- 4.0Good Balance, Boring WorkPrincipal Software Engineer • Current EmployeeSan Mateo, California, United StatesJuly 25, 2024Pros: Good work-life balance, good TC.Cons: No interesting work, too much change in management.
- 5.0A really nice place to workPrincipal Software Engineer • Current EmployeeSan Mateo, California, United StatesFebruary 24, 2021Pros: - exceptional growth opportunity. Better that joining Facebook before it went public. - very interesting engineering problems to solve. It doesn’t feel like you’ll be fixing some small button on a web site. - better overall compensation package than at Google/Facebook/Apple. - feels like we are just starting to grow world wide.Cons: People coming from other companies often get higher rankings than some long-timers at the company, even though they are clearly not at the same level. It seems like long-timers will be moving on because of that.
- 5.0Exciting growth: Be a hero to kidsPrincipal Software Engineer • Current EmployeeSan Mateo, California, United StatesMarch 17, 2018Pros: Be a hero to kids everywhere. Own a product and make a difference. Basically, every team has more problems than people. So, whatever you build will eventually become a world-class version of that "thing." And you get to make it happen. Core values that are actually valued. They're on the company-issued mugs. People actually talk about them in meetings, in interviews, in performance reviews, and when making important decisions.Cons: As a new employee, you can end up "swimming in the deep end" for a while. Roblox is an incredibly complex product with over 10 years of legacy decisions and systems. It's a lot to absorb.
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