At Roblox, our mission is to attach a billion folks with optimism and civility. We understand this mission is just attainable by means of relentless innovation, pushed by our superb workers and the processes behind how we work. The Roblox developer group, over 12 million robust, works in live performance with us, offering the inventive content material that drives our development.
Our individuals are our most vital asset, and we strongly imagine that our innovation is just attainable by constructing a workforce that embodies a broad vary of expertise, views and backgrounds. Roblox seeks the very best and brightest expertise. We’re consistently striving to make sure that our workforce displays the depth and breadth of experiences, identities and backgrounds that outline our platform. We’re happy with the tradition and folks follow we’ve constructed, but we all know there’s extra to do.
We’re dedicated to creating Roblox the very best, most inclusive place to work wherever. We have now a powerful basis and, in shut partnership with our workers, we are going to continue learning and evolving as we make sure that we’re the easiest place to work for everybody. And our work in the direction of this objective 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 trying to find revolutionary folks to affix 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 might be underrepresented in tech. We have now 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 targeted 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 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 sturdy and numerous expertise acquisition program. We consistently measure and assess our recruiting funnel to detect and treatment any bias. We’re so obsessed with this that, in 2020, we acquired an organization referred to as Imbellus that excelled at constructing legitimate, dependable, and truthful evaluation expertise. Through the use of the simulation-based evaluation system first developed by Imbellus, we’re in a position to develop 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 scale back or get rid of a number of the indicators 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 give attention to unconscious bias and over 80 p.c of managers have taken that coaching.
Equally, we’re happy with the truth that we now not take a look at the school 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 colleges or the highest 25 laptop science packages. Because of this, we’ve seen the share of interns coming from establishments apart from traditionally elite colleges rise from 32 p.c in 2021 to 48 p.c in 2022. Diversifying which colleges we recruit from is only a begin, however it offers 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 certainly 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 manner we will guarantee all workers can deliver their “greatest selves” to work every day.
In line with these values, we try to create as many contact factors as attainable to take our workers’ pulse and guarantee 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 embody 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 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 got 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 crew and, as wanted, as much as our board.
We additionally try to construct a system of steady suggestions to assist make sure that individuals are being handled pretty and empathetically, and we swiftly deal with any issues which might be raised. We would like Roblox to be the place the place you’ll study greater than wherever else, and we will solely guarantee 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 seek out and construct communities with their friends primarily based on shared identities and pursuits. We have now 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 wish to work on novel issues and who deliver a systems-based, inventive method to their work. Our individuals are consistently enhancing on our collective capability to innovate and execute whereas residing our values, and our efforts to create an inclusive, welcoming and empathetic office straight feed into this. We have now been intentional in constructing many avenues for connecting, for suggestions and to drive transparency. That being stated, we’re at all times in search of extra methods to do that higher and can proceed to work intently with our workers.
TRACKING OUR PROGRESS
In our efforts to construct a inventive, engaged, revolutionary 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 wish to share a couple of key stats that replicate the place we’re right now and the place we’ve come from during the last a number of years.
skilled improvement 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 had been promoted.
Furthermore, as of June 30, 2023, about 30% of leaders at Roblox are ladies. This, after all, isn’t but the place we wish to be. Nevertheless it represents a 40% improve in ladies 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 techniques 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 colour. That is up from 57 p.c in 2020. We imagine this can be 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 persistently discovered that our workers are overwhelmingly glad 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 fee their managers equally in all areas lined 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 now, but in addition the over 70 million each day energetic customers who use our platform to attach and specific themselves. We embrace the duty to help an area the place folks may 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.
Although we’re making progress, we all know there’s extra to do — for us and for the {industry} as a complete. 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 finally the product we’re constructing to allow tens of millions the world over to attach, study and are available collectively.
