Roblox

Senior Engineer Interview Experience - Canada

December 18, 2024

Positive ExperienceGot Offer

Process

The in-house recruiter was excellent throughout the process, making me feel like they were acting in my best interest. Communication was very prompt and honest.

The interview process took roughly six weeks, involving five interviews and a take-home test, not counting recruiter calls. While that's actually less thorough than the company used to be, it's still clearly pretty heavy.

Questions

There was a non-LeetCode style coding interview with three questions.

There was a non-web-dev architecture interview.

There were some partially-technical screens.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Roblox Senior Engineer role in Canada.

Success Rate

100%

Pass Rate

Roblox's interview process for their Senior Engineer roles in Canada is incredibly easy as the vast majority of engineers get an offer after going through it.

Experience Rating

Positive100%

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Candidates reported having very good feelings for Roblox's Senior Engineer interview process in Canada.

Roblox Work Experiences

Expectations are unreasonable at times

Senior Engineer • Current Employee

San Mateo, California, United States

Pros: Equity is rewarded quarterly. Sometimes you get to work on interesting things.

Cons: The stock drops 10% every time you get paid through stock.

Expectations are unreasonable at times

Senior Engineer • Current Employee

San Mateo, California, United States

Pros: Equity is rewarded quarterly. Sometimes you get to work on interesting things.

Cons: The stock drops 10% every time you get paid through stock.

A place to grow and learn every day

Backend Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Mateo, California, United States

September 3, 2020

Pros: Corporate culture of cultivating the strengths of every employee, putting the employee's growth ahead of company growth. Everyone working here is intelligent, thoughtful, friendly, and helpful. Every day is an opportunity to solve challenges no other company has faced. Work goes towards systems for a platform that empowers anyone with an internet connection to follow their ambitions.

Cons: Learning the ropes and onboarding takes some time, and documentation on systems is often lacking. Team structures change rapidly, making it hard to keep track of who owns what.

A place to grow and learn every day

Backend Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Mateo, California, United States

September 3, 2020

Pros: Corporate culture of cultivating the strengths of every employee, putting the employee's growth ahead of company growth. Everyone working here is intelligent, thoughtful, friendly, and helpful. Every day is an opportunity to solve challenges no other company has faced. Work goes towards systems for a platform that empowers anyone with an internet connection to follow their ambitions.

Cons: Learning the ropes and onboarding takes some time, and documentation on systems is often lacking. Team structures change rapidly, making it hard to keep track of who owns what.

Brutal return rate

SWE Intern • Current Employee

August 17, 2021

Pros: Pay is good for interns as well as new grads. Probably the only good thing about this internship. Most people are nice.

Cons: Unstructured project, unhelpful mentor, and interns are told in the last week of their internship that the return offer rate is throttled to 50% (from the 95% we were told by the recruiters). Half of the interns didn't get return offers while they were encouraged to refer 15 more people for new grad positions.

Brutal return rate

SWE Intern • Current Employee

August 17, 2021

Pros: Pay is good for interns as well as new grads. Probably the only good thing about this internship. Most people are nice.

Cons: Unstructured project, unhelpful mentor, and interns are told in the last week of their internship that the return offer rate is throttled to 50% (from the 95% we were told by the recruiters). Half of the interns didn't get return offers while they were encouraged to refer 15 more people for new grad positions.

Expectations are unreasonable at times

Senior Engineer • Current Employee

San Mateo, California, United States

Pros: Equity is rewarded quarterly. Sometimes you get to work on interesting things.

Cons: The stock drops 10% every time you get paid through stock.

1.0
Expectations are unreasonable at times
Senior Engineer • Current Employee
San Mateo, California, United States
March 8, 2024
Pros: Equity is rewarded quarterly. Sometimes you get to work on interesting things.
Cons: The stock drops 10% every time you get paid through stock.

A place to grow and learn every day

Backend Software Engineer • Current Employee

San Mateo, California, United States

September 3, 2020

Pros: Corporate culture of cultivating the strengths of every employee, putting the employee's growth ahead of company growth. Everyone working here is intelligent, thoughtful, friendly, and helpful. Every day is an opportunity to solve challenges no other company has faced. Work goes towards systems for a platform that empowers anyone with an internet connection to follow their ambitions.

Cons: Learning the ropes and onboarding takes some time, and documentation on systems is often lacking. Team structures change rapidly, making it hard to keep track of who owns what.

5.0
A place to grow and learn every day
Backend Software Engineer • Current Employee
San Mateo, California, United States
September 3, 2020
Pros: Corporate culture of cultivating the strengths of every employee, putting the employee's growth ahead of company growth. Everyone working here is intelligent, thoughtful, friendly, and helpful. Every day is an opportunity to solve challenges no other company has faced. Work goes towards systems for a platform that empowers anyone with an internet connection to follow their ambitions.
Cons: Learning the ropes and onboarding takes some time, and documentation on systems is often lacking. Team structures change rapidly, making it hard to keep track of who owns what.

Brutal return rate

SWE Intern • Current Employee

August 17, 2021

Pros: Pay is good for interns as well as new grads. Probably the only good thing about this internship. Most people are nice.

Cons: Unstructured project, unhelpful mentor, and interns are told in the last week of their internship that the return offer rate is throttled to 50% (from the 95% we were told by the recruiters). Half of the interns didn't get return offers while they were encouraged to refer 15 more people for new grad positions.

2.0
Brutal return rate
SWE Intern • Current Employee
August 17, 2021
Pros: Pay is good for interns as well as new grads. Probably the only good thing about this internship. Most people are nice.
Cons: Unstructured project, unhelpful mentor, and interns are told in the last week of their internship that the return offer rate is throttled to 50% (from the 95% we were told by the recruiters). Half of the interns didn't get return offers while they were encouraged to refer 15 more people for new grad positions.

Roblox Interview Questions

Reorganize String

Rearrange the characters in a given string such that no two adjacent characters are the same. If such an arrangement is possible, return it; otherwise, return an empty string.

StringsGreedy AlgorithmsArrays

Task Scheduler

You're given a list of tasks to run, each requiring one unit of time to complete. Determine the shortest time needed to execute all tasks, considering a cooling period after each task execution.

ArraysGreedy Algorithms

Design Hit Counter

Design a hit counter that records hits and retrieves the number of hits in the past 5 minutes. You need to implement methods to record a hit and get the total hits in a sliding window.

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