ICF reviews

3.7

69% would recommend to a friend

(2,746 total reviews)
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John Wasson

82% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

ICF has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 2,746 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The ICF employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Dec 5, 2015

not for long term career

Anonymous employee
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Pros

I'm sure there are some. As with any company, it depends on your own management chain. Colleagues are great.

Cons

Management chain the worst in my experience. At the intro "breakfast," our senior VP repeatedly said they want our ideas. OK, sounds good. Then he told us we can do all the training we want, but it's on our own time. Bill 40 and nothing else matters. My reaction was oh, they want our ideas because they can make money off them, but they're not going to invest a dime in us. That turned out to be 100% true. Shutdown? Billable people get no pay; seniors apparently were paid. Interesting - they share in the upside of us billing, but do not share in the downside. That's particularly egregious given that missing 3 weeks of pay probably doesn't have much of an impact on them being able to pay their rent/mortgage, buy groceries, etc. How about sharing the downside as well as the upside? Health care costs rise, though not horrifically, and growth is not great, so raise the premiums on employees as if that's the problem. It isn't. The growth is the problem, and the seniors and their reaction to the market are responsible for that. But the pain, again, comes to the billable. Again, the rise in senior premiums probably doesn't affect their daily living, just their retirement stockpile. Bottom line, without many, many stories: you're there to bill, not to build a career. No matter what you say about wanting more, you won't get it. Contact a recruiter to chat about moving into the other areas of the company, and you won't get a return email or call.

1.0
Nov 13, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Nice holiday party. Big building in Fairfax.

Cons

My experience was as an on-site Federal contractor. Staff augmentation/lowest price technically acceptable company. During sequestration, ICF gave ZERO pay for the month that the Federal government was shut down and set up their timesheets so that you were unable to collect unemployment during that time. Tricky and terrible. When your contract is up, you're out of a job. My direct manager was a joke who lined them up to lose their re-compete, which happened shortly after I left. There were a lot of unbillable "executives" just hanging out back at Fairfax. Nice holiday party and cocktail get-togethers, but they take ANY staff augmentation, lowest price technically acceptable work and their staff mirrors that caliber. If you want to be on the B team, this is company for you.

1.0
Sep 9, 2015

Toxic work environment

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Work from home and the flexible schedule

Cons

There is a lack of communication between management and junior staff resulting in work overload and frustration. Employees are expected to work overtime with no notice. Typically, we had to wait on management for weeks to get back to us with revisions and when they finally did, they expected us to fix it immediately while they took way too long. ICF is not well known. I had to constantly explain what ICF does and when people asked what ICF stands for, I had to explain that it does not stand for anything anymore. The projects we work on take too long and both clients and staff do not see the importance in our work. The turnover rate is very high here. For a for-profit, the benefits are not great.

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