Great place to start or end your career. - Internal Revenue Agent IRS Employee Review

5.0
Sep 20, 2008
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Pros

Work life balance. We only work 40 hours, have the opportunity to work from home (part of the time or on a full time basis), vacation and sick leave is granted and are seperate amounts (6 hours bi-weekly for vacation, 4 hours bi-weekly for sick leave), rarely is time off denied except in exigent circumstances which I have never seen come up. Good pay for the amount of time that is needed to be on the job.

Cons

Limitations on outside work. They have policies not allowing you to work in similar industries (i.e. preparing taxes, financial planning, accounting work, etc.). The government also does not allow you to run in local politics which may only impact a handful of people but does matter to me.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
May 26, 2026
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Pros

-Got me started in my career as an auditor -thorough tax law training -many senior auditors helping you learn the profession

Cons

-communication from management is not always transparent -when you are at the bottom of the ladder, you get verbal abuse from not only POA and taxpayers (understandable, given this is the IRS), but also management/OJI's. They want to look good to their bosses and will throw you under the bus if they have to in order to save themselves. Even if they gave you instructions that got you in trouble. They SHOULD be supporting you in your function as an auditor, but they'll do whatever is easiest for themselves ultimately. -on job training can be disorganized -bureaucratic culture -like many other companies, a lot of things you're expected to learn by yourself. Such as how to avoid POA delays.

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