Rising and Supporting the Roblox Group

At Roblox, our mission is to attach a billion folks with optimism and civility. We understand this mission is barely doable by way of relentless innovation, pushed by our wonderful workers and the processes behind how we work. The Roblox developer group, over 12 million robust, works in live performance with us, offering the artistic content material that drives our progress.

Our individuals are our most necessary asset, and we strongly imagine that our innovation is barely doable by constructing a workforce that embodies a broad vary of abilities, views and backgrounds. Roblox seeks the perfect and brightest expertise. We’re continuously 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 apply we’ve constructed, but we all know there’s extra to do. 

We’re dedicated to creating Roblox the perfect, most inclusive place to work anyplace. We’ve got a powerful basis and, in shut partnership with our workers, we are going to continue learning and evolving as we be certain that we’re the easiest place to work for everybody. And our work in direction of this aim won’t ever cease.

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

OUTREACH & RECRUITING

We’re constantly looking for progressive folks to hitch Roblox and assist us construct our platform. We make investments closely in reaching out to potential candidates. This consists of an additional give attention to candidates with numerous backgrounds and views which are underrepresented in tech. We’ve got constructed a sourcing workforce that makes a speciality of partaking 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 workforce, with assets on this space on observe to triple over the course of 2023. As well as, our govt recruiting workforce is targeted 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 strong and numerous expertise acquisition program. We continuously measure and assess our recruiting funnel to detect and treatment any bias. We’re so keen about this that, in 2020, we acquired an organization known as Imbellus that excelled at constructing legitimate, dependable, and honest evaluation know-how. Through the use of the simulation-based evaluation system first developed by Imbellus, we’re in a position to increase the pool of candidates we supply from and cut back our reliance on typical early-sourcing standards utilized by most recruiting organizations. This has allowed us to cut back or remove a number of the alerts of unconscious bias that may leak into the recruiting course of when firms depend on long-standing networks and strategies for locating expertise. Our interview coaching additionally features a give attention to unconscious bias and over 80 p.c of managers have taken that coaching.

Equally, we’re pleased with the truth that we not take a look at the school or college the place our new school 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 pc science applications. Because of this, we’ve seen the share of interns coming from establishments apart from traditionally elite faculties rise from 32 p.c in 2021 to 48 p.c in 2022. Diversifying which faculties we recruit from is only a begin, but it surely supplies a basis we’re excited to construct on.

IN THE WORKPLACE

Our efforts to create a welcoming atmosphere wealthy with completely different backgrounds and views don’t finish as soon as somebody has joined our firm. Respecting the group is one among 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 manner we will guarantee all workers can convey their “finest selves” to work every day.

In step with these values, we attempt to create as many contact factors as doable to take our workers’ pulse and ensure that folks really feel that they’re revered and appreciated and that they’ve alternatives to develop and thrive with Roblox. That’s why we’ve inbuilt 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) classes, 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 workforce, 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 now have included checks and balances within the types of upward supervisor suggestions and satisfaction surveys. We conduct a company-wide Variety, Inclusion and Belonging survey to know worker sentiment and obtain insights confidentially. And at last, we offer an nameless reporting system for workers that goes on to our worker relations workforce 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 handle any issues which are raised. We wish Roblox to be the place the place you’ll be taught greater than anyplace else, and we will solely ensure that’s the case when folks really feel seen, heard and revered.

As a part of this, we help employee-led Affinity Teams that permit folks to search out and construct communities with their friends primarily based on shared identities and pursuits. We’ve got over 15 teams, and we offer firm assets for audio system, gatherings and workshops, in addition to funding for actions or occasions that fall exterior of those areas. 

Roblox is powered by individuals who wish to work on novel issues and who convey a systems-based, artistic method to their work. Our individuals are continuously enhancing on our collective capability to innovate and execute whereas dwelling our values, and our efforts to create an inclusive, welcoming and empathetic office instantly feed into this. We’ve got been intentional in constructing many avenues for connecting, for suggestions and to drive transparency. That being stated, we’re at all times on the lookout 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, progressive and numerous workforce, we attempt 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 info on worker efficiency and progress throughout the firm for indicators of disparities, we wish to share a couple of 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.

Taking a look at skilled improvement throughout the firm, we’ve discovered proof of a good and goal course of, with promotion charges statistically equal throughout gender, racial and ethnic traces. In our most up-to-date evaluation of the promotion charges of ladies and men within the second half of 2022, 13% of ladies and 9% of males at Roblox have been promoted.
Furthermore, as of June 30, 2023, about 30% of leaders at Roblox are girls. This, after all, is just not but the place we wish 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 also be important for our tradition, and we design our compensation programs with a give attention to equity, consistency, and equality. Final 12 months, we launched what shall 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 Could 2023, 64 p.c of our workers are workers of coloration. That is up from 57 p.c in 2020. We imagine 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 folks 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 price 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 folks working right here right this moment, but additionally the over 66 million each day energetic customers who use our platform to attach and specific themselves. We embrace the accountability to help an area the place folks might be who they’re (or who they wish to be) and be accepted. Internally, we all know we have to stroll the stroll in addition to speak the speak.

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