TaxSlayer Software Developer reviews

You have to punch a clock (as a salaried employee) and your day starts at 8:00 (With no flexibility). The owners are sticklers for this and keep track of the number of days which you were late to work, and if you have too many it will affect your yearly review. The schedule during tax season is absolutely crazy. Mandatory 12 hour days and weekends with some periods where you work both Saturday and Sunday. So much so that when a snow storm was forecast for the area the management mandated that all full time employees should spend the night and sleep in their offices. Low pay and a token bonus program. Phantom benefits that look good as bullet points, but have conditions which make them unusable. The raise schedule is terrible as well. Your review happens at the end of tax season (only if you were there for the entire tax season), but your raise doesn't take affect until January of the following year. Lots of meetings (at 8:00 AM).

Health Insurance blows. If you want to move up in the company, you better get on your knees..... and pray that you marry in or something. They dock vacation if you work less than 40 even if you are salaried. They call you salary, but treat you like an hourly employee. Will tell you to meet certain goals and get a "Considerable raise compared to this year", however, the raise you get is less than the year before. Currently going through handing down of the company which could be good. However, this could bring about inexperienced leadership. If you dont go on the company trip for whatever reason, you only get 1 day of vacation compared to ~1800 dollar vacation plus 5 days of pto practically.