No shortcuts: Roblox has succeeded the hard way
No shortcuts: Roblox has succeeded the hard way
Extraordinary technology--for instance, any one of the thousands of games on the Roblox platform could have players on Xbox, a tablet device, iPhone, Android, desktop, etc. It's amazing.
A few days ago, I saw a cutting-edge multiplayer game re-implemented on Roblox with astonishing fidelity.
The developers who build this technology are sitting all around me--that's perhaps the best thing.
Another: it is run by adults. Not by a 25-year-old Stanford drop-out who just wants to be famous.
The codebase here was created deliberately with tender loving care by masters. As a result, there seems to be astonishingly little technical debt--e.g., on the Roblox blog, you can read about major upgrades to the core game components (the physics engine).
This would be impossible without a rock-solid codebase.
about 325 people. There is some bureaucracy, but if you are coming from a larger org, you might have the opposite impression.
Keep the standards high during this period of hypergrowth.
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Recruiter (Hank) was amazing and very responsive. The leadership team and interviewers were courteous and well-seasoned overall. There is great energy and passion throughout the company. Roblox lives its core values, and I love that they value thei
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The initial screening was a five-question OA. I was then followed up by an interview. Coding questions were similar to LeetCode mediums. The last round was an OA. I had to reschedule the interview a few times.
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The interview process began with two hour-long phone conversations that led to an on-site interview. The on-site consisted of an introductory lunch, followed by one-on-one interviews with five key members of the company. I was extremely impressed wi
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San Francisco, California, United StatesMarch 1, 2021Recruiter (Hank) was amazing and very responsive. The leadership team and interviewers were courteous and well-seasoned overall. There is great energy and passion throughout the company. Roblox lives its core values, and I love that they value thei
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San Mateo, California, United StatesSeptember 17, 2024The initial screening was a five-question OA. I was then followed up by an interview. Coding questions were similar to LeetCode mediums. The last round was an OA. I had to reschedule the interview a few times.
Devops/Operations Engineer
San Mateo, California, United StatesAugust 1, 2015The interview process began with two hour-long phone conversations that led to an on-site interview. The on-site consisted of an introductory lunch, followed by one-on-one interviews with five key members of the company. I was extremely impressed wi
