Roku

Streaming devices and smart TVs
Last updated:
January 25, 2026
Company details
HQ
San Jose, CA
HEADCOUNT
3000-9999
ORG TYPE
Corporate
SECTOR
Retail & Consumer
About the company
Roku is a streaming TV platform company that sells streaming devices and licenses the Roku TV operating system to TV manufacturers, while monetising viewing through advertising and content distribution on the platform. Roku also operates The Roku Channel and sells advertising products tied to streaming audiences. Roku reports both a Platform business and a Devices business in public filings.
Locations and presence
Roku lists major US offices including San Jose, Austin, Boston, Chicago, New York, Concord, and Santa Monica. Roku’s FY2024 10-K says the majority of employees have adopted a hybrid work schedule that mixes in-person and work-from-home.
Palpable Score
65.5
/ 100
Roku is fairly accessible for graduates because Roku runs a named internship track (Rising Streamers) and advertises early-career roles with defined internship structure and mentor pairing. Hiring transparency is decent thanks to consistent candidate-reported interview stages and employer-posted pay ranges on some listings, but early-career outcomes are harder to judge because Roku does not publish conversion, promotion, or retention metrics.
Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

15.0
/ 20
  • The company promotes “internship and full-time early career opportunities” and positions early career hiring as a dedicated track rather than ad hoc junior roles.
  • Roku describes Rising Streamers as an “exceptional internship program” and links the program to university engagements and campus relations.
  • The company has public signals of meaningful internship scale in at least one recent cycle, including a LinkedIn post stating “over 150 interns” completed the internship and showcased projects.

Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

12.5
/ 20
  • The company has high-volume candidate-reported process data showing recurring stages like phone interviews, one-on-ones, panels, presentations, and skills tests.
  • Roku has intern-specific interview accounts describing a three-round structure (preliminary, technical, behavioral) and recruiter-led expectation setting early in the process.
  • The company does not publish a single, official early-careers timeline (for example, “apply by X, interviews by Y, offers by Z”) in widely accessible public materials, so clarity still depends on the specific recruiter and team.

Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

12.5
/ 20
  • The company says every intern is paired with a senior leader mentor and frames the mentor relationship around goal-setting and ongoing support.
  • Roku’s Software Engineer Intern posting describes project matching based on skills and interests, plus mentorship, collaboration, and opportunities to showcase outcomes to engineering leaders and peers.
  • The company has mixed signals on early-career development quality in employee feedback, including a review explicitly stating “no support for early career development,” which suggests uneven support by team.

Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

15.5
/ 20
  • The company shows strong pay transparency for interns on some listings, including employer-provided hourly ranges like $34–$66/hr (San Jose) and $28–$62/hr (New York).
  • Roku job postings commonly list standard benefits categories (for example health insurance, equity awards, parental leave, paid time off, and 401(k) language on role pages), which supports stability for early-career hires who convert to full-time.
  • The company’s benefits documentation and third-party benefit summaries show a real benefits baseline, but benefits details are not consistently tied to every early-career posting in a way that makes comparisons easy across locations.

Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

10.0
/ 20
  • The company has intern outcome signals that point to meaningful end-of-internship visibility, including public posts about interns showcasing projects and participating in professional development events, but Roku does not publish intern-to-offer conversion rates.
  • Roku has mixed progression signals in employee feedback, including an employee review describing multi-year timelines for promotion (example: Analyst to Senior Analyst taking 3–4 years) and review themes calling out limited promotion paths.
  • The company has had public restructuring signals that affect early-career stability, including a widely reported workforce reduction of about 10% alongside a hiring freeze in 2023.

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