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      Software Engineering Manager Interview

      17 Oct 2018
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Roblox

      Interview

      One of the worst interview I had in my last 10+ year. I share my experience here so you will be able to gain some insight. There was no technical phone interview, I received a Hackerrank link after some informal conversation. Two coding problems in the online test. these two problems were straightforward in biz logic . I accomplished both of them and made sure they pass all functionality tests. There was case with TLE(take long time) that I did not bother to fix them as the following reasons: - it might depend on the programming language: java vs c/c++ - memorization can be used for optimization for recursive call if necessary. there is always a trade off between space and time. - Even in FANG, all interview questions are started with function right. If necessary, interviewer-interviewee then work together for an optimized solution. - for the hackerrank, there is communication process. you do not know the expectation. and Roblox never mentioned explicitly that I need to address TLE before they sent me the online test link. Thus, I did not get the onsite due to the TLE. In all, Roblox interview process was so broken. they do not know how to perform interview and evaluate candidates properly. interview is not throwing a hard problem to the candidate and expect perfect answer. it is a two way collaboration process: does the candidate have good technical skills? and can the candidate work with me to a reasonable solution? If a company does not know how to perform interview, do you expect the company to have good engineering practice & culture? I highly doubt it. Thus, think twice before you applying software engineering job there.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      hackerrank
      Answer question
      6
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      Roblox response
      7y
      Thank you for thoroughly reviewing your experience. We’re committed to continuously upgrading our hiring processes, so your notes have been shared internally. If you’d like to dig in deeper, feel free to contact feedback@roblox.com.

      Other Software Engineering Manager interview reviews for Roblox

      Software Engineering Manager Interview

      9 Jan 2023
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Roblox in Oct 2022

      Interview

      This was a very very fun way to interview for a job different from anything Ive done. I end up playing challenging games and went through 3 different test. Then went on from there to do other interviews

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      They asked me to complete task on Roblox itself
      Answer question

      Software Engineering Manager Interview

      3 Jun 2020
      Anonymous employee
      San Mateo, CA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2+ months. I interviewed at Roblox (San Mateo, CA) in May 2020

      Interview

      Roblox is extremely thorough in their interview process, where Ning is the only company where I've experienced a more challenging set of interviews. Structurally the interviews were most similar to Amazon but with a greater range of hands-on coding/architecture/design exercises but no evidence of a "bar raiser". The use of an IDE for the coding exercises was a welcome change from the usual Silicon Valley "whiteboard" format and it felt like a much clearer proxy for real-world performance. One of the C++ coding exercises particularly stood out for this as the IDE/compilation loop allowed me to submit a complete solution within a very limited time frame (and where the interviewer was understanding of the limited trial-and-error required). To anyone considering an engineering position at Roblox: this team is looking for "navy seals" so prepare appropriately. I'd recommend reading "Hello, Startup: A Programmer's Guide to Building Products, Technologies, and Teams" especially if you're not already on a world-class team and practice intermediate(+) coding exercises in an IDE (Hackerrank or something similar) so you're well prepared (as fluent as possible in the target language) for the coding questions.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Why do you want to work at Roblox?
      Answer question
      1

      Software Engineering Manager Interview

      25 Oct 2019
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Vancouver, BC
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through other source. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Roblox (Vancouver, BC) in Jul 2019

      Interview

      One call with recruiter who reached out on linked in. Then a call with a senior manager which was moderately technical. Then after confirmation of follow up i.e. being to asked to schedule another interview, there was no response despite several emails / phone call. Only contacted back a couple months latter by another recruiter. Got to know the earlier recruiter left and the only means to track were her notes. Scheduled another interview with the same Senior manager, only to find out it was incorrectly scheduled and should have been done with some one else. Finally another coding interview scheduled with one person via hacker rank, turned out to be two people which seemed a bit too much down to earth, to the point that it felt rude. No introductions or other starters, rather quickly jumped to a coding question. Was asked a not so unique coding question. I clearly outlined the first immediate though out n^2 solution as well as the better O(n) solution and asked which one they want. The answer was weird "Its okay to attempt the O(n^2) one if you are not sure you would finish in time". So i implemented the n^2, struggled a little with one test case, but fixed it. Then outlined the O(n) solution but there wasn't enough time (Strictly 45 min) and they abruptly finished. Received rejection latter. Bottom line, especially when recruiting for a manager, if you want an O(n) only, why waste time asking some one to code a less efficient one. Why not just be clear with what you want as a bar to pass the interview. I might have been able to finish the more efficient solution in time too. But when given the choice, i picked up the easier to code one. To me that shows lack of prep before an interview. Combine this with the previous scheduling experience, this leaves a pretty bad impression of the company

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      C++, memory understanding etc. array based algorithmic question
      Answer question
      4
      avatar
      Roblox response
      6y
      Thank you for providing so much detail around your experience. We are sorry to hear that you encountered these issues with scheduling and your coding question, and we've shared your notes internally in the hopes of improving these processes. If you have any further feedback, we hope you'll reach out via email at feedback@roblox.com and let us know.

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