Came through a referral, so I started with conversations at the VP level to identify a Director with an open role that was a good fit. Once a need was identified, I connected with the Director who served as the Hiring Manager for the role.

The Hiring Manager screen was to discuss my management experience, my level of involvement in people management and technical direction, and to answer questions about the company and interview process.

Next, I completed a technical screen done via Karat, with a contract interviewer. Two questions were asked:

• The first was a code review with annotations of server code.
• The second was to implement a program given some input and expected output.

This was all to be done within one hour. There was an opportunity to redo the interview within 48 hours if desired.

The next step was the onsite (done virtually during Covid). There were four more interviews covering management, project execution, product collaboration, and system design.

Finally, there was an executive round consisting of two 30-minute conversations, one with the CTO and one with the founding CEO. Questions about my background and career arc were discussed, as well as my motivations for joining Roblox. I was also given about 10-15 minutes to ask questions to each leader.

System design for a popular app