I applied through university. I interviewed at Naval Surface Warfare Center (Dahlgren, VA) in Feb 2026
Interview
Very conversational and pretty easy. Interviewed with two different branches and for one the only thing they asked was to explain the difference between iteration and recursion and questions about some data structures
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Naval Surface Warfare Center (Dahlgren, VA)
Interview
Some questions about why you would want to work in the federal government. Technical questions included a BFS and walkthrough of the algorithm that we used. This then included optimization and multiple scenarios.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a BFS algorithm. Why do you want to work within the federal government?
