I applied online. I interviewed at Maximus in May 2026
Interview
I interviewed for a remote software engineer (front-end/react) dev position. First round is a discussion with a recruiter on your background and skills. Second round was an hour long technical discussion with 4 engineers. The lead developer discusses the role, asks you the standard 'tell me about yourself' industry question and then hands it off to the other developers. The second developer had pre planned questions and kept asking about kubernetes even after I stated it is at the bottom of my resume because I have dabbled in it with one work ticket and have some experience in it and would like to continue to work with it, I explained my experience with it and he kept going through his pre planned questions without adjusting on kubernetes and eventually sql and non sql databases for the majority of the interview when the job was mainly for a react developer. It ended up feeling like an interrogation and to corner me in a gotcha moment while simultaneously trying to demonstrate his own expertise rather than properly evaluate me. There was only about 15 minutes left by the time the interview reached the third developer and he didn't come off as friendly or personable at all. He asked me questions about my projects from college, not work, and generic react questions about state and props and to explain the difference but kept wanting a deeper explanation for a simple answer to the point I had to say in a polite way that I don't know how to explain state and props any clearer to which he gave me a baffled look and the 4th developer laughed on screen. I even gave him an analogy to my work in react panes and the design methods I used and he asked me to explain the analogy which baffled me and at this point the atmosphere felt plain rude. There was 5 minutes left and the 4th interviewer didn't even want to ask me anything. Overall, apart from the tech lead, this was not a pleasant interview, it felt biased, pre-planned, interrogative, honing in on mostly one small part of my resume that I explained was limited and outlined my limits, and also like an opportunity for the interviewers to display their skills rather than evaluate my skills. They seem to want a junior dev to do the work of a senior dev as well with the architecture questions and stating that they wouldn't want me going to a senior dev for help if it was needed, with the pay of a junior dev of course. This is what happens when there are 4 interviewers, too many cooks spoil the soup and your chances of getting hired exponentially decrease. Going off of their attitudes and the companies mediocre reviews, I'm not upset by the result of the interview.
Easy interview
Application
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Maximus in Nov 2011
Interview
I saw the review posted Mar 16 and actually had to think whether I wrote it. I had exactly the same awful experience.
Red flag #1:
There was an on-campus interview, consisting entirely of typical behavioral questions. Then I went for interviews at their Reston office. There were three interviews, consisting almost entirely of typical behavioral questions. Mind you, I was interviewing for a software engineering position. Only one person asked me anything remotely technical - a couple of very easy questions about what object-oriented programming is. Hiring for a technical position by asking behavioral questions should give you a hint about what kind of technical position it is.
Red flag #2:
You could tell right away what kind of dreary, corporate environment this company has and what kind of corporate drones work there. There are business analysts who do their business analysis. One of them was gracious enough to tell me, "Oh we couldn't do anything without developers!". I wonder who gets paid more. There are developers who do what the business analysts tell them to do according to their business analysis. One of the developers I spoke with mumbled something about "giving suggestions to the business analysts if your idea is good". The developers sit in small, poorly-lit cubicles. The ones I met had a dull, blank look in their eyes. That was when they actually looked at you. One who interviewed me spent most of the time looking at emails on his smartphone.
Red flag #3:
Like the reviewer from Mar 16, I never heard from this company again. Their "director of corporate recruiting" said to expect a decision within ten days. That was four months ago, and no decision. Their "director of corporate recruiting" said the travel reimbursement process would take about a month. That was four months ago, and no reimbursement. This "director of corporate recruiting" doesn't answer emails or return calls. I don't know who the other reviewer is, but I know of at least three other candidates who interviewed the same day as me and haven't heard back or been reimbursed for travel. If this company can't even send a copy-and-paste rejection email and can't even process a reimbursement form, just imagine the sort of HR people and managers you'll be dealing with if you're unlucky enough to receive an offer.
There are red flags everywhere about this company (see all the reviews here). Avoid it if you have a choice.
This was for internship
Simple OOPS and general questions on OS, System Design . But main stress was on Concepts of OOPS like Abstraction, Polymorphism etc.
Coding round was on Sorting algorithms.
I faced multiple tough rounds, solved problems under pressure, defended my ideas, yet they found gaps. Exhausted but wiser, I walked out rejected—disappointed, but stronger and more prepared.I entered confident, faced complex problems, panel pressure, tricky behavioral questions. Despite effort, they highlighted gaps. Rejection stung, but I left stronger, realizing failure sharpened resilience, preparing me for future opportunities.
