Interview at Roblox

Oracle / Eng
hekla

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hekla
Nov 20, 2020 11 Comments

Hello,
I am new to the job searching world in the Bay Area. I am going to have my first round of interview with Roblox through karat soon.
Browsing around I understood the interview is going to be more about speed of solving the problem.
Can anyone help if the platform that karat will interview on is a place where we can run program multiple times similar to leetcode or is it just a notepad where they are more interested in our approach rather than the exact solution ?

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  • Roblox
    c78

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    c78
    I'd suggest focusing on communication rather than speed. Not explaining your approach or asking questions will probably hurt you.
    Nov 20, 2020 7
    • Oracle / Eng
      hekla

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      hekla
      OP
      Hello, I took the interview, I kind of was tended. Don’t ask y. May be , has been a while attending an interview.
      I went blank initially but pulled myself together and solved one problem-test case passed(it was an easy question but I took time) , then, the interviewer said since we don’t have enough time to do the 2nd question , just asked me to explain how it can be done ,I explained and I think that should work. But I did not the write any code . Should I go for a redo?
      Nov 28, 2020
    • Google
      TnHg47

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      TnHg47
      I would probably do a bit more practice and take the redo option. You should shoot for completing two questions but may be ok with a bit less; that is Roblox’s ultimate decision.
      Nov 28, 2020
  • HSC
    bOOQ72

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    bOOQ72
    I appeared for karat interview 4-5 months back. There will be 3 questions to be done in 45 mins. Basically it is one question only with 2 follow ups. They don't look for optimization but working solution for at least 2 problems. 3rd is bonus. If you don't give working solution for 2 , you are rejected. I would suggest to target 2 que only so 20-25 mins for one que should be sufficient. Also, try to guess follow ups. I was able to do it so wrote my code in such a way that follow up can be incorporated easily.
    Nov 20, 2020 1
    • Google
      TnHg47

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      TnHg47
      I’m a Karat interviewer and would say this is generally good advice. The expectations change a bit between role/company but if you complete two questions you most likely did quite well.
      Nov 21, 2020
  • I had my interview with them in August. It depends on the the interviewer and how much they spend with you on talking about your recent experience any recent accomplishment. Mine took 25 minutes of the 1 hour. After that I was given a coding question which I solved in 15 mins. Then the interviewer followed it with a new requirement in the same question which I coded about halfway only.

    The environment is code friendly and you can run the code as many times as you want but I would suggest against doing that and recommend running through the test cases manually. The biggest problem I faced was with their auto-complete which used to change my variable names with something else when I pressed tab. That wasted 5-7 minutes of my time when I was finally running the code against test cases. Oh yeah, the interviewer will ask you to convert the test cases they provided into code and run them against your code to prove that it works. Questions are not difficult but yeah follow ups can be a little tricky and thus have to factor that in writing the first code.

    Overall, personally I felt the process was good and user friendly. I got to go to the next round after the interview.
    Nov 20, 2020 0