What it does: Roblox is an app that allows users to play a wide variety of games, create games, and chat with others online. It combines gaming, social media, and social commerce.
Mission: Roblox’s mission is to build a human co-experience platform that enables billions of users to come together to play, learn, communicate, explore and expand their friendships.
Best known for: Roblox is a free-to-play (F2P) online gaming platform that offers user-generated gaming content and other immersive virtual experiences.
Created by David Baszucki and Erik Cassel in 2004 and released in 2006, the platform hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in the programming language Lua. For most of Roblox's history, it was relatively small, both as a platform and as a company.
Leading at Roblox is a new series that explores the career journeys of Roblox's leaders and discusses their roles, philosophies, and management styles.
Roblox has a stringent interview process that comprehensively evaluates the analytical and problem-solving abilities of applicants.
Out of 157 Roblox Canada employee reviews, 81% were positive. The remaining 19% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping Roblox improve their work culture. The HR team, with 100% positive reviews, reports the best experience at Roblox Canada compared to all other departments at the company.
Roblox pays an average salary of $121,656 per year or $58.49 per hour. Roblox pays those in the bottom 10 percent $81,000 a year, and the top 10 percent over $181,000. At Roblox, employees working in engineering jobs and it jobs tend to earn the highest salaries.
The benefits of playing Roblox include fostering creativity, teaching appropriate socialization skills, encouraging financial awareness and entrepreneurship, and urging users to employ critical thinking. Roblox is a stepping stone to coding and game design and offers free teaching resources.
Roblox is not associated with any controversy in Canada.