IRS reviews

3.3

53% would recommend to a friend

(3,634 total reviews)

32% positive business outlook

IRS has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 3,634 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The IRS employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Government & Public Administration industry (3.6 stars).

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1.0
May 30, 2015

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Pros

Decent benefits. I enjoyed talking to the tax payers while working to resolve their issues or concerns and did this well. Working off two monitors helped a lot to multi-task situations.

Cons

Heavily micro-managed. If you like having to count for every second of your time spent in front of a PC its fine but you will always have to answer for every little thing with someone always looking over your shoulder. The training is grueling, dull, boring unless of course you are the type of person who likes to fill in numbers on lines and searching for the meanings of specific tax codes which unless you know what they are trying to find them in their library database takes an eternity when performing this work. Also, the training was the worst. The trainers are workers who have been their awhile but most of them have no teaching experience which made learning even more difficult. The pay does not equal the work and stress this position comes with. Also, throughout the entire training period of 3 months we were told over and over not to worry about the daily testing we were given, ït does not matter" the important thing was how to find the info in the database! Now if you don't know what your looking for, how do you know if you found the correct answer or not? Now if you already have tax experience and like tax things along with a good amount of computer experience this job might be for you. You must like heavy handed control and all your calls monitored as well. For me personally, I resigned.

1.0
May 26, 2015

Underpaid! Seriously overworked!

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Pros

If you like tax...Welcome home!

Cons

Taxpayers, churn and burn work, you must be highly productive in this position. Management is terrible. Most newer/younger employees are highly qualified and underemployed. But there is a break down of communication as most of the managers were grandfathered in, worked their way up from admin positions and mail clerk and are now overseeing this new highly intelligent workforce which leads to a huge breakdown in communication. The IRS is split up in to regions and each region does their own thing so you may do things one way in the midwest and a completely different way in the south, east coast, west coast, etc. Total chaos. Be prepared to be best friends with your NTEU union rep! You'll need them!! Oh, and if you want to move up or move around in the IRS...A) Prepare for a long wait and/or B) Being politically savvy will need to be your strength all while trying to balance an inventory of cases and constant production goals!

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