At this time we’re excited to announce the launch of the Roblox Profession Heart — an expertise straight on Roblox the place early profession candidates can dive into our immersive platform firsthand and study what it’s prefer to be part of an organization that’s reimagining the way in which folks come collectively.
Eliminating geographical boundaries and showcasing our platform
We imagine crucial product we’re constructing shouldn’t be Roblox the platform, however Roblox the corporate — the individuals who are available each day to assist advance our mission to attach a billion folks with optimism and civility. Our innovation is barely potential by constructing a workforce that embodies a broad vary of expertise, views, and backgrounds.
Whereas preferrred from an engagement standpoint, conventional in-person recruiting has its limitations. There are solely so many universities and potential candidates that our recruiting staff can have interaction with in particular person. The Roblox Profession Heart permits us to achieve early profession candidates internationally — eliminating geographic constraints from the recruiting course of and avoiding all that’s missing in static recruiting approaches, reminiscent of internet pages and video conferencing conferences. It additionally highlights every part that makes our platform a novel vacation spot for human connection and communication: interactivity, self-expression, and immersion. What higher method for candidates to know what they might be engaged on than to expertise options, like spatial audio and the flexibility to animate avatars with motion, proper inside our recruiting expertise.
A brand new option to expertise recruiting
Inside the expertise, candidates can study extra concerning the complicated technical challenges we’re tackling and the innovation we’re driving by way of immersive occasions, podcasts, and conversations with Roblox staff. This can be a new method for us to introduce what it’s prefer to work right here, whereas serving to candidates change into conversant in our platform.
“We determined to construct this expertise particularly for candidates who’re simply beginning out their careers, a lot of whom are already conversant in our platform from after they performed on Roblox as they have been rising up. We predict this can be a nice option to showcase the Roblox platform and assist candidates visualize themselves working right here.” – Ryan Fitzpatrick, Senior Director, Early Profession Expertise at Roblox
Navigating the expertise
Whereas some candidates are conversant in Roblox, for a lot of, this would be the first time that they’ll enter right into a Roblox expertise. Our objective is to make it as straightforward and easy as potential. Guests simply studying about Roblox can head to the Innovation Lab the place they’ll study our revolutionary product roadmap and take heed to tales straight from our staff.
Subsequent, guests can take a look at the Podcast Lounge, the place they’ll take heed to clips of our Tech Talks Podcasts, hosted by Roblox Co-founder & CEO Dave Baszucki, as he and particular visitors discover the technical challenges and revolutionary concepts we’re engaged on.
Put together for an interview
We help our candidates all through every step of the interview course of, beginning with preparation supplies. Within the Library, guests can discover a curated collection of books and different studying supplies to evaluation as they put together for his or her interviews. We’ve got crafted a one-stop store of data with a spread of subjects, together with our historical past, current improvements, our philosophy and method to interviewing, and a information on what to anticipate all through the interview course of.
We even have a room devoted to our problem-solving assessments. Over the previous a number of years, these assessments have performed an necessary function in offering an equitable alternative for all candidates, no matter background, to display job related expertise. Candidates can take apply assessments to see what they might expertise throughout their interview course of.
Coming quickly, we’ll be inviting candidates to conduct sure preliminary interviews straight throughout the expertise.
Attend an immersive occasion
In right now’s linked world, digital occasions have change into widespread. Nevertheless, experiencing an occasion in Roblox is way extra immersive. For this yr, our focus will likely be on internet hosting quite a lot of digital, immersive occasions within the house. We not too long ago hosted our first occasion with Roblox CTO Dan Sturman, the place he shared his journey to Roblox and his imaginative and prescient for its future. We hosted over 85 college students within the expertise, the place they have been in a position to hear not solely extra from Dan and our Early Profession Crew, but in addition to expertise first-hand our revolutionary expertise.
“It’s one factor to speak about our technical improvements to recruits; it’s one thing fully totally different to have them expertise these improvements on the platform themselves. The Roblox Profession Heart is a superb instance of how we’re pushing the boundaries of what’s potential on our platform.” – Daniel Sturman, Chief Expertise Officer at Roblox
The brand new Roblox Profession Heart will likely be yet another method for us to achieve high expertise, wherever they’re. Able to test it out for your self? Head to the Roblox Profession Heart to expertise the way forward for recruiting. If you happen to’re concerned with studying extra about our open Early Profession roles and how one can apply, you may see our present Intern roles right here and New Graduate, Full Time roles right here. Be positive to go to our Careers web site recurrently as we open extra roles this season.
