Roblox Values

Question 1

Give an example where you showed customer empathy

Answer 1

Atlas API project
Bigquery cost management

Question 2

Tell of a time where you reacted based on customer feedback

Answer 2

Atlas API
SuperSet customer feedbacks

Question 3

Give an example where you focused on longer-term requirement instead of short-term

Answer 3

Kickstarter
LSP -> Sharding was quick and dirty but knew it would break so I pushed for batching.
BQ vs Redshift

Question 4

Show an example where you displayed bias towards action

Answer 4

LSP -> Identified and reached out to team to start working on solution. Sharding vs Batching was contentious. I sat down with all the parties involved and presented them a set of problems with sharding and quickly moved on to design a system based on batching.
BQ project - I had uncertainty over the usage but did some due diligence and moved forward.
Cost savings - I did some data crunching and calculations to find the cost per sessions - identified a few major swings, and moved forward with assumptions that this is good enough and we can dive deeper as we continue the project.

Question 5

Give an example of flagging an issue immediately after discovering it and how you proceeded.

Answer 5

BQ data loss issue:- We had a failure -> Identified the core issue -> Notified the stakeholders about the cause and how we can handle it and the impact of it on the release and agreements with Redshift etc
Kickstarter
Docker systems

Management
- WD transition engineer tech stack issue
- todea x-team collaboration issue

Question 6

Give an example where you took ownership and solved it.

Answer 6

Docker system for WD
Kickstarter for logging
Superset

Question 7

Give an example where you showed accountability.

Answer 7

AB Test release - Unintended issue; worked on the fix; notified stakeholders; worked with DS to fill the data with ML modeling and other data we had for the time period.

BQ Data loss - Strategic decision error