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 wonderful workers and the processes behind how we work. The Roblox developer neighborhood, over 12 million robust, 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 consider that our innovation is just attainable by constructing a workforce that embodies a broad vary of abilities, 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 pleased with the tradition and other people observe 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 anyplace. We’ve 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 perfect place to work for everybody. And our work in direction of this purpose won’t ever cease.
And so I need to summarize what we do to draw, retain, advance and, crucially, assist 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 deal with candidates with numerous backgrounds and views which might be underrepresented in tech. We’ve constructed a sourcing staff that focuses on 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 staff, with sources on this space on observe to triple over the course of 2023. As well as, our government recruiting staff 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 consistently measure and assess our recruiting funnel to detect and treatment any bias. We’re so enthusiastic about this that, in 2020, we acquired an organization known 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 capable of broaden 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 eradicate a few 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 deal with unconscious bias and over 80 % of managers have taken that coaching.
Equally, we’re pleased 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, lately we’ve seen a marked improve in intern hires coming from universities aside from Ivy League faculties or the highest 25 pc science packages. Because of this, we’ve seen the share of interns coming from establishments aside 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 offers a basis we’re excited to construct on.
IN THE WORKPLACE
Our efforts to create a welcoming surroundings wealthy with completely 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 clients because it does to how we deal with each other. Civility and respect are central to our strategy to inclusion within the office; it’s the one manner we are able to guarantee all workers can convey their “finest selves” to work every day.
In step with these values, we try to create as many contact factors as attainable to take our workers’ pulse and be sure 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) periods, the place we assist open and unscripted Q&A with our leaders and all workers.
As well as, we host Listening Periods led by our Folks staff, 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 included checks and balances within the types of upward supervisor suggestions and satisfaction surveys. We conduct a company-wide Range, Inclusion and Belonging survey to know worker sentiment and obtain insights confidentially. And eventually, we offer an nameless reporting system for workers that goes on to our worker relations staff and, as wanted, as much as our board.
We additionally attempt 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 might be raised. We wish Roblox to be the place the place you’ll study greater than anyplace else, and we are able to solely be sure that’s the case when folks really feel seen, heard and revered.
As a part of this, we assist employee-led Affinity Teams that permit folks to seek out and construct communities with their friends based mostly on shared identities and pursuits. We’ve over 15 teams, and we offer firm sources 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 convey a systems-based, inventive strategy to their work. Our persons are consistently enhancing on our collective capacity to innovate and execute whereas dwelling our values, and our efforts to create an inclusive, welcoming and empathetic office immediately feed into this. We’ve been intentional in constructing many avenues for connecting, for suggestions and to drive transparency. That being mentioned, we’re all the time on the lookout 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, progressive 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 all the time have extra work to do, as we take a look at the info on worker efficiency and progress inside the firm for indicators of disparities, we need to share a couple of key stats that replicate the place we’re at the moment and the place we’ve come from over the past a number of years.
Taking a look at 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 traces. 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, will not be but the place we need to be. But it surely 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 also be important for our tradition, and we design our compensation techniques with a deal with equity, consistency, and equality. Final yr, we launched what will probably 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 % of our workers are workers of shade. That is up from 57 % in 2020. We consider 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 constantly 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 charge 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 folks working right here at the moment, but in addition the over 66 million each day energetic customers who use our platform to attach and specific themselves. We embrace the duty to assist an area the place folks 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 speak the speak.
Despite the fact 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 surroundings we offer for all workers to thrive, and in the end the product we’re constructing to allow tens of millions the world over to attach, study and are available collectively.