At Roblox, our mission is to attach a billion individuals with optimism and civility. We notice this mission is barely doable via relentless innovation, pushed by our wonderful workers and the processes behind how we work. The Roblox developer group, over 12 million sturdy, works in live performance with us, offering the inventive content material that drives our progress.
Our persons are our most essential asset, and we strongly imagine that our innovation is barely doable by constructing a workforce that embodies a broad vary of expertise, views and backgrounds. Roblox seeks the perfect and brightest expertise. We’re always 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’s extra to do.
We’re dedicated to creating Roblox the perfect, most inclusive place to work wherever. We now have a powerful basis and, in shut partnership with our workers, we are going to continue to learn and evolving as we make sure 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 need to summarize what we do to draw, retain, advance and, crucially, help an expansive, various worker base.
OUTREACH & RECRUITING
We’re repeatedly trying to find revolutionary individuals 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 various backgrounds and views which can be underrepresented in tech. We now 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 a lot of our friends equally centered on constructing various 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 govt recruiting crew is concentrated on constructing relationships and sourcing expertise from various 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 various expertise acquisition program. We always 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 know-how. By utilizing 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 cut back or eradicate among 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 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 now not have a look at the faculty or college the place our new school graduate and intern candidates apply from. For instance, lately we’ve seen a marked improve in intern hires coming from universities aside from Ivy League faculties or the highest 25 pc science applications. Consequently, we’ve seen the share of interns coming from establishments aside 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, nevertheless 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 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 means we are able to guarantee all workers can convey their “greatest selves” to work every day.
In step with these values, we try to create as many contact factors as doable to take our workers’ pulse and ensure 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 Periods 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 now we have 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 try to construct a system of steady suggestions to assist make sure that persons are being handled pretty and empathetically, and we swiftly handle any issues which can be raised. We wish Roblox to be the place the place you’ll be taught greater than wherever else, and we are able to solely ensure that’s the case when individuals really feel seen, heard and revered.
As a part of this, we help employee-led Affinity Teams that enable individuals to search out and construct communities with their friends primarily based on shared identities and pursuits. We now 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 exterior of those areas.
Roblox is powered by individuals who need to work on novel issues and who convey a systems-based, inventive method to their work. Our persons are always bettering 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 now 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 intently with our workers.
TRACKING OUR PROGRESS
In our efforts to construct a inventive, engaged, revolutionary and various 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 have a look at the info on worker efficiency and progress throughout the firm for indicators of disparities, we need to share a couple of key stats that mirror the place we’re at this time and the place we’ve come from over the past a number of years.
- 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 men and women within the second half of 2022, 13% of ladies and 9% of males at Roblox had been promoted.
- Furthermore, as of June 30, 2023, about 30% of leaders at Roblox are girls. This, in fact, just isn’t but the place we need to be. But it surely 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 methods with a give attention to equity, consistency, and equality. Final 12 months, we launched what will likely be an annual evaluation of our pay fairness by way of a third-party vendor, and located that Roblox pays workers the identical throughout each gender and race.
- As of Might 2023, 64 p.c of our workers are workers of colour. 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 individuals really feel at work and have persistently 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 fee their managers equally in all areas coated by our worker satisfaction survey. This suggestions is usually 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 at this time, but additionally the over 66 million each day energetic customers who use our platform to attach and specific themselves. We embrace the duty to help an area the place individuals might 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 speak the speak.
Regardless that 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 bettering the methods we discover, develop and retain workers from various backgrounds, the atmosphere we offer for all workers to thrive, and in the end the product we’re constructing to allow thousands and thousands the world over to attach, be taught and are available collectively.