IRS reviews

3.3

53% would recommend to a friend

(3,637 total reviews)

32% positive business outlook

IRS has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 3,637 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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4K reviews
3.0
May 31, 2015

Good for beginners

Recommend
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Pros

Great jumping off point for people entering or re-entering the workforce

Cons

job is seasonal, and does not last very long in the tax season

1.0
May 30, 2015

Customer Service

Anonymous employee
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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.

3.0
May 30, 2015

IRS Revenue Agent

Recommend
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Pros

Friendly, low-key environment with good benefits, vacation, and telework policies. People can bank time for alternative schedules. Union cares. The work is meaningful. Revenue agents always have opportunities to learn and investigate ask questions and learn. The pay competes with the private sector at the undergrad level, but at the graduate degree level, private sector pay wins. Flex time is useful.

Cons

Moves slower than private sector and at senior levels pays less, but some like the trade off. Tech is old an needs to be modernized. Technology and management change comes very slowly. People have a poor view of the IRS. Budget freezes limit opportunities to hire and improve technology.

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