When turnover is this bad, it's the company's fault - Anonymous employee Maximus Employee Review

1.0
16 June 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- It's a paycheck. - It's hard to get fired until right before they're giving raises. - It's easy to get hired. - You can have a job while you look for another job. - There are benefits. - You can telecommute.

Cons

Maximus is the sort of company people talk about when they say a place doesn't have a "work/life balance" but rather a "work/recover-from-work balance." Only work here if you need a job while you look for another job. - You will be underpaid and overworked. - Unreasonable production metric goals. - Very obvious racial lines as far as who gets into managerial and executive positions. - Works with McKinsey & Company. - Absurd break policy that requires you to spend your PTO to go to the bathroom. - CEO gets 6 million dollars in compensation while you don't even get a living wage or stock options. - You don't get dedicated sick/personal/vacation time off, just general-use PTO at a rate of 1.53 hours/week until 2 years in where it goes up to 2 hours. Anyone hired before 2017 gets significantly more PTO and execs get unlimited. - The health insurance (Anthem BCBS with Express Scripts) isn't very good; huge deductible and out of pocket maximum and Express Scripts will fight you if you take any medications that it doesn't want to pay for, even if you have tried alternatives before. - They talk a big game about contributing to your HSA and then make you jump through hoops to get the full amount they say you'll get. - Departments are never on the same page as each other. - Values profitability above all else, including the needs of the consumers. - Even within one department, job procedures are unclear and often contradictory. - Management is completely uninterested in consulting the people who do the actual work on how the job should be done.

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5.0
2 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Remote, adequate training and guidance and usually everything /software works - minus regular hiccups.

Cons

Not too many - a few misunderstanding s about training classes and roles but overall, not bad.

1.0
18 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Had a few really exceptional coworkers

Cons

One reason I was hired was to bring in new ideas and work approaches; however, when I tried implementing anything new, some of the “old school higher-ups” would balk and were never open to anything new or better. My management just looked the other way and didn’t support me. As for training, I wasn’t offered much in the way of onboarding other than being told to read a lengthy “standard operating procedures” document. No real opportunities were offered to shadow anyone so I could learn in real-time. A typical work week was 60+ hours and often stretched to 70+. It was exhausting and demoralizing. The job was not sustainable and I’ve never been more relieved to be done with a place. I cannot recommend Maximus as a place to grow your skills or to give your time. Turnover seems to be relatively high at Maximus and there are far better places to work.

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