Rising and Supporting the Roblox Group

At Roblox, our mission is to attach a billion individuals with optimism and civility. We notice this mission is just potential by relentless innovation, pushed by our superb workers and the processes behind how we work. The Roblox developer neighborhood, over 12 million sturdy, works in live performance with us, offering the artistic content material that drives our development.

Our individuals are our most necessary asset, and we strongly consider that our innovation is just potential by constructing a workforce that embodies a broad vary of abilities, views and backgrounds. Roblox seeks the perfect and brightest expertise. We’re continually 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 folks follow 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 anyplace. Now we have a powerful basis and, in shut partnership with our workers, we’ll continue to learn and evolving as we be certain that we’re the perfect place to work for everybody. And our work in the direction of this objective won’t ever cease.

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

OUTREACH & RECRUITING

We’re constantly trying to find modern individuals to hitch Roblox and assist us construct our platform. We make investments closely in reaching out to potential candidates. This consists of an additional concentrate on candidates with numerous backgrounds and views which can be underrepresented in tech. Now we have 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 lots of our friends equally centered 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 monitor to triple over the course of 2023. As well as, our government recruiting crew is concentrated 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 continually measure and assess our recruiting funnel to detect and treatment any bias. We’re so captivated with this that, in 2020, we acquired an organization referred to as Imbellus that excelled at constructing legitimate, dependable, and truthful evaluation know-how. Through the use of the simulation-based evaluation system first developed by Imbellus, we’re in a position to broaden 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 get rid of a few of the alerts of unconscious bias that may leak into the recruiting course of when corporations depend on long-standing networks and strategies for locating expertise. Our interview coaching additionally features a concentrate on unconscious bias and over 80 % of managers have taken that coaching.

Equally, we’re pleased with the truth that we not take a look at the faculty or college the place our new faculty graduate and intern candidates apply from. For instance, in recent times we’ve seen a marked improve in intern hires coming from universities apart from Ivy League faculties or the highest 25 laptop science packages. Consequently, we’ve seen the proportion of interns coming from establishments apart from traditionally elite faculties rise from 32 % in 2021 to 48 % in 2022. Diversifying which faculties we recruit from is only a begin, however it supplies a basis we’re excited to construct on.

IN THE WORKPLACE

Our efforts to create a welcoming setting wealthy with totally different backgrounds and views don’t finish as soon as somebody has joined our firm. Respecting the neighborhood is considered one of our foundational values, and applies simply as a lot to how we deal with our customers and prospects 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 approach we will guarantee all workers can deliver their “greatest selves” to work every day.

In step with these values, we try to create as many contact factors as potential to take our workers’ pulse and guarantee that individuals really feel that they’re revered and appreciated and that they’ve alternatives to develop and thrive with Roblox. That’s why we’ve in-built 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) periods, the place we help open and unscripted Q&A with our leaders and all workers. 

As well as, we host Listening Classes led by our Individuals 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’ve integrated checks and balances within the types of upward supervisor suggestions and satisfaction surveys. We conduct a company-wide Variety, Inclusion and Belonging survey to grasp worker sentiment and obtain insights confidentially. And eventually, 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 attempt to construct a system of steady suggestions to assist be certain that individuals are being handled pretty and empathetically, and we swiftly tackle any considerations which can be raised. We wish Roblox to be the place the place you’ll be taught greater than anyplace else, and we will solely guarantee that’s the case when individuals really feel seen, heard and revered.

As a part of this, we help employee-led Affinity Teams that permit individuals to seek out and construct communities with their friends primarily based on shared identities and pursuits. Now we have 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 need to work on novel issues and who deliver a systems-based, artistic method to their work. Our individuals are continually bettering on our collective skill to innovate and execute whereas dwelling our values, and our efforts to create an inclusive, welcoming and empathetic office immediately feed into this. Now we have been intentional in constructing many avenues for connecting, for suggestions and to drive transparency. That being mentioned, we’re at all times searching 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 artistic, engaged, modern 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 at all times have extra work to do, as we take a look at the information on worker efficiency and development inside the firm for indicators of disparities, we need to share just a few key stats that replicate the place we’re right this moment and the place we’ve come from during the last a number of years.

• skilled growth inside the firm, we’ve discovered proof of a good and goal course of, with promotion charges statistically equal throughout gender, racial and ethnic strains. 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 need to be. Nevertheless it represents a 40% improve 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 be important for our tradition, and we design our compensation programs with a concentrate on equity, consistency, and equality. Final yr, we launched what will probably 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 Might 2023, 64 % of our workers are workers of shade. That is up from 57 % 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 individuals really feel at work and have constantly 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 mostly 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 individuals working right here right this moment, but in addition the over 70 million each day lively customers who use our platform to attach and specific themselves. We embrace the accountability to help an area the place individuals will be who they’re (or who they need to be) and be accepted. Internally, we all know we have to stroll the stroll in addition to discuss the discuss.

Regardless that we’re making progress, we all know there may be extra to do — for us and for the {industry} as an entire. We’re dedicated to repeatedly bettering the methods we discover, develop and retain workers from numerous backgrounds, the setting we offer for all workers to thrive, and finally the product we’re constructing to allow thousands and thousands internationally to attach, be taught and are available collectively.