Roblox Software Engineer interview experience

The prompt centered on matching players during gameplay, and the discussion naturally expanded into how to do it reliably and what infrastructure costs would look like.

The interview took about an hour total, and it was paced like a real engineering conversation rather than a theoretical write-up. I walked away feeling like the interviewer wanted depth in tradeoffs, especially around how matching behaves as load and play patterns change.

I didn’t end up with an offer, and the reflection I had afterward was that system design here wasn’t just about diagrams—it was about making the “how”