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by endtime 666 days ago
I'm a pretty senior IC at Roblox, and my new hire offer was 40% cash / 60% RSUs. It's now closer to 33/67 with refresher grants.

Roblox pays very competitively (see levels.fyi). The apparent strategy is to try to hire lots of long-tenured L6+ Googlers (seriously, it's crazy how many former Googlers I work with).
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pm90 666 days ago
Having lots of ex Googlers could honestly go either way. I wouldn’t automatically assume thats a good thing.

A former mid size company that I worked at had the same scenario and it was definitely not good. They over engineered not just the systems but literally everything else, including the promotion process which involved the whole horse and pony show and was a constant distraction to shipping features while the companys finances struggled.

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ckdarby 666 days ago
Not a good sign for Roblox. Yes, many smart people, but they weren't industry changing (Google almost never loses) and they didn't get or turned down Google's renewal program to retain talent.

Looks like a lot who wanted the high pay, but coast along and leverage their past experience to not be dared questioned.

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eru 666 days ago
Wouldn't that be a fully generalised argument against ever hiring anyone who ever worked at Google?

(Btw, some people also leave Google for other reasons.)

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Jensson 666 days ago
If you want people who know how to build stable large scale infrastructure it is hard to go wrong by hiring people from Google. Google rewrites all their products all the time, they shut down and launch new internal systems just as often as they do external, and it is still stable, so the people from there has probably been through a few rewrites of some infrastructure part and knows what are required for that to work.
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paulryanrogers 666 days ago
For some definitions of 'stable'. As a user having to swap apps and lose functionality randomly makes it all feel very tenuous.
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eru 666 days ago
Google product decisions (and especially what to shut down) isn't really made by the same people who keep the infrastructure up and running.
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endtime 666 days ago
> coast along and leverage their past experience to not be dared questioned.

This has not been my experience at all.

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